The thermal history of the Sichuan Basin, SW China: Evidence from the deep boreholes

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• 作者：ChuanQing Zhu ; ShengBiao Hu ; NanSheng Qiu ; Song Rao…
• 关键词：paleotemperature gradient ; paleo ; heat flow ; vitrinite reflectance ; Emeishan mantle plume ; Sichuan Basin
• 刊名：Science China Earth Sciences
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：January 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：59
• 期：1
• 页码：70-82
• 全文大小：1,245 KB
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• 作者单位：ChuanQing Zhu (1) (2)
  ShengBiao Hu (3)
  NanSheng Qiu (1) (2)
  Song Rao (4)
  YuSong Yuan (5)
  
  1. State Key Laboratory of Petroleum Resources and Prospecting, China University of Petroleum, Beijing, 102249, China
  2. College of Geosciences, China University of Petroleum, Beijing, 102249, China
  3. State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100029, China
  4. College of Geosciences, Yangtze University, Jinzhou, 434023, China
  5. Exploration and Production Research Institute, SINOPEC, Beijing, 100083, China
  
• 刊物主题：Earth Sciences, general;
• 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• ISSN：1869-1897

文摘

The Sichuan Basin is a superimposition basin composed of terrestrial and marine sediments that is well known for its abundant petroleum resources. Thermal history reconstruction using paleogeothermal indicators, including vitrinite reflectance and thermochronological data, shows that different structural subsections of the Sichuan Basin have experienced various paleogeothermal episodes since the Paleozoic. The lower structural subsection comprising the Lower Paleozoic to Middle Permian (Pz-P₂ successions experienced a high paleogeothermal gradient (23.0–42.6°C/km) at the end of the Middle Permian (P₂, whereas the upper structural subsection comprising Late Permian to Mesozoic strata underwent a relatively lower paleogeothermal gradient (13.2–26.9°C/km) at the beginning of the denudation (Late Cretaceous or Paleocene in the different regions). During the denudation period, the Sichuan Basin experienced a successive cooling episode. The high paleogeothermal gradient resulted from an intensive thermal event correlated to the Emeishan mantle plume. The heat flow value reached 124.0 mW/m2 in the southwestern basin near the center of the Emeishan large igneous province. The low geothermal gradient episode with heat flow ranging from 31.2 to 70.0 mW/m2 may be related to the foreland basin evolution. The cooling event is a result of the continuous uplift and denudation of the basin.