Triassic integrative stratigraphy, biotas, and paleogeographical evolution of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and its surrounding areas
Science China Earth Sciences - 2024
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Rocks of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP) host abundant Triassic fossils. So far, the well established marine fossil sequences based on ammonoids, conodonts, bivalves, brachiopods, radiolarians, and terrestrial spora-pollen sequence have become standard for biostratigraphic correlation of the QTP. For much of Triassic time, the QTP occupied a marine setting as suggested by the dominance of marine deposits. The main sedimentary types represented in the Triassic successions include littoral to shallow marine clastic rocks, shallow marine carbonate platform carbonates, bathyal to abyssal slope carbonates intercalated with clastic and siliceous deposits, coal-bearing clastic strata contained within paralic facies deposits, and littoral and terrestrial volcaniclastic rocks. These deposits are organized into four stages in ascending order: (1) Early Triassic deposits that record marine transgression, including extensive shallow marine carbonate platform strata. (2) Middle Triassic Ladinian to Late Triassic Carnian deposits, including thin-bedded limestone, fine clastics, and siliceous rocks, that accumulated at greater depths than underlying Early Triassic strata and reflect the peak of the transgression. Magmatic activity appears to have occurred in some areas during this stage. (3) Late Triassic Norian deposits that record the onset of marine regression as suggested by the widespread occurrence of platform carbonates. It is noteworthy that stage 3 deposits of the Qin-Qi-Kun area in the northernmost region of the QPT is dominated by terrestrial strata and displays evidence of local erosion. (4) Late Triassic Rhaetian littoral and shallow marine clastic and coal-bearing deposits that preserve the record of continued marine regression continued. The Indus-Yarlungzangbo Suture Zone (IYSZ) appears to have been the rifting axis during Triassic time as suggested by sedimentary facies trends that reflect deepening to south and north. Thus, the Himalaya Block to the south of the IYSZ was part of the passive margin of Gondwana whereas the north side of the IYSZ, including the Gangdis (or Lhasa) and South Qiangtang blocks, belonged to the passive margin of Eurasia. The similarity of rocks of the Bangongco-Nujiang Suture Zone (BNSZ) to the north of the IYSZ with those of the Gangdis Block to the south and the South Qiangtang Block to the north does not support the contention that the BNSZ was a rift axis during Triassic time. Results of palaeobiological research also suggest that the IYSZ rather than BNSZ was a biogeographic boundary during the Triassic. Early and Middle Triassic break-up of Pangea was accompanied on the QTP by rifting along the IYSZ. The expression of crustal shortening induced by the Indosinian Orogeny on the QTP is largely a change of sedimentary facies induced by Late Triassic uplift. Deposits of the Gangdis to South Qiangtang regions of the QTP record a transition from shallow marine carbonate platform deposits to littoral and paralic coal-bearing strata. Moreover, the stratigraphic succession of the Qin-Qi-Kun area preserves a transition from littoral clastic deposits to terrestrial facies and local erosion.
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