Evolution of the Late Cretaceous Yongfeng-Chongren Basin in Jiangxi Province, southeast China: insights from sedimentary facies analysis and pebble counting

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• 作者：Liu-qin Chen ; Fu-sheng Guo ; Chao Tang
• 关键词：Late Cretaceous redbeds ; Pebble counting ; Yongfeng ; Chongren Basin ; Gan ; Hang Belt ; Geological evolution
• 刊名：Journal of Mountain Science
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：February 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：13
• 期：2
• 页码：342-351
• 全文大小：668 KB
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• 作者单位：Liu-qin Chen (1) (2)
  Fu-sheng Guo (2)
  Chao Tang (2)
  
  1. State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Nuclear Resources and Environment, East China Institute of Technology, Nangchang, 330013, China
  2. College of Earth Sciences, East China Institute of Technology, Nangchang, 330013, China
  
• 刊物主题：Earth Sciences, general; Geography (general); Environment, general; Ecology;
• 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• ISSN：1993-0321

文摘

The Gan-Hang Belt in Southeast China is characterized by several igneous and siliciclastic basins associated with crustal extension during Late Mesozoic. The sedimentary evolution of the red basins is still poorly understood. In this study, sedimentary facies analysis and pebble counting were performed on outcrop sections of the Late Cretaceous Guifeng Group in the Yongfeng-Chongren Basin in central Jiangxi Province. Thirty-five conglomerate outcrops were chosen to measure pebble lithology, size, roundness, weathering degree and preferred orientation. Results show that gravels are mostly fine to coarse pebbles and comprise dominantly quartzites, metamorphic rocks, granitoids and sandstones. Rose diagrams based on imbricated pebbles indicate variable paleocurrent directions. Combining with typical sedimentary structures and vertical successions, we suggest that the Guifeng Group were deposited in alluvial fan, river and playa lake depositional systems. The proposed depositional model indicates that the Hekou Formation represents the start-up stage of the faulted basin, accompanied by sedimentation in alluvial fan and braided river environments. Then this basin turned into a stable expansion stage during the deposition of the Tangbian Formation. Except for minor coarse sediments at the basin margin, the other area is covered with fine-grained sediments of lake and river environments. The Lianhe Formation, however, is once again featured by conglomerates, suggesting a probable tectonic event. Therefore, the study region possibly suffered two tectonic events represented by the conglomerates of the Hekou and Lianhe formations in the context of the crustal extension in Southeast China.