style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Oil exploration in the southeastern space prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Ordosst1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Basinst1:PlaceType>st1:place> in recent years made little progress due to ambiguous understanding of the primary provenance of Yanchang Formation. The main types of clastic sandstones in Yanchang Formation are arkose and lithic arkose distributed in Chang 8 and Chang 6 with 20%~65% feldspar. In comparison with crystalline basement, it suggests that Archean igneous rocks in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Luliangst1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Mountainsst1:PlaceType>st1:place> have no genetic link to Yanchang Formation. The primary provenance of Yanchang Formation derived from granulite-khondalite series from Wulashan Group in Yinshan paleo-land in east-north, rather than from Qinling Group and Kuanping Group in northern <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Qinlingst1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Mountainsst1:PlaceType>st1:place>.