Old Land, Old Uplift and Palaeogeography

• 责任者：Xu Xiaosong (Chengdu Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources ; Chengdu 610081 ; China) ; Men Yupeng
• 刊名：Sedimentary Geology and Tethyan Geology
• 出版年：2010
• 卷期：30(3)
• 关键词：隆起 ; uplifts ; 古地理 ; paleogeography ; 中国 ; China
• 页码：p.1-10
• 图表：11 illus., 1 table, 31 refs.
• 分类号：1200
• issnNo：ISSN1009-3850
• isbnNo：CN51-1593/P

There are two distinct terrigenous areas in the geological records. One is the old lands which were formed by landmass matching, consolidation and basement cratonization in Grenville orogeny or even earlier. For instance, the North China landmass was consolidated during the Luliang movement, and the Tarim and Yangtze landmasses were consolidated during the Sibao-Jinning movement. The differences of time durations for the landmass consolidation may exercise a major control on the Early Palaeozoic sedimentary basins. The other is old uplifts which resulted from the inversion of the pre-existing sedimentary basins caused by the ocean-continent transition and basin-range transition during the Sinian to the Phanerozoic. These uplifts may provide valid spaces for sedimentary and/or stratabound ore deposits, and for hydrocarbon accumulation. The pericratonic uplifts tend to act as the tectonic barriers.