• 责任者：Cai Xiongfei (Faculty of Earth Sciences ; China University of Geosciences ; Wuhan 430074 ; China) ; Liu Demin
• 刊名：Journal of Stratigraphy
• 出版年：2009
• 卷期：33(3)
• 关键词：古近纪 ; Paleogene Period ; 中新世 ; Miocene ; 地层对比 ; stratigraphic correlation ; 柴达木盆地 ; Qaidam Basin ; 可可西里盆地
• 页码：p.276-282
• 图表：5 illus., 2 tables, 9 refs.
• 分类号：1200
• issnNo：ISSN0253-4959
• isbnNo：CN32-1187/P

Paleocene-Miocene strata in the Qaidam Basin to the north of the Kunlun Mountain and the Kekexili Basin to the south of the Kunlun Mountain show similarities in sedimentary, paleontological, palaeoclimatic, and tectonostratigraphic features. Based on these data, the authors believe that the Kunlun Mountain that today separates the Qaidam Basin and Kekexili Basin was subdued during the Oligocene-Miocene. The authors also believe that the Kunlun Mountain must have experienced long-term weathering and erosion after its uplift in the middle Indo-China movement. But during the Paleocene-Miocene, the mountain may have been eroded continuously and then in the Oligocene-Miocene, the ancient mountain essentially disappeared.