Cenozoic Vertical-Axis Rotations of the Hoh Xil Basin, Central- Northern Tibet

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摘要 UnderstandingtheCenozoicvertical-axisrotationintheTibetanPlateauiscrucialforcontinentaldynamicevolution.PaleomagneticandrockmagneticinvestigationswerecarriedoutfortheOligoceneandMiocenecontinentalrocksoftheHohXilbasininordertobetterunderstandthetectonicrotationsofcentralTibet.ThestudyareawaslocatedintheTongtianhearealocatedinthesouthernpartoftheHohXilbasinandnorthernmarginoftheTanggulathrustsystemincentral-northernTibet.Atotalof160independentlyorientedpaleomagneticsamplesweredrilledfromtheTongtianhesectionforthisstudy.Themagneticpropertiesofmagnetiteandhematitehavebeenrecognizedbymeasurementsofmagneticsusceptibilityvs.temperaturecurvesandunblockingtemperatures.ThemeandirectionsoftheOligoceneYaxicuoGroupinstratigraphiccoordinates(Declination/Inclination=354.9°/29.3°,k=33.0,α95=13.5°,N=5Sites)andoftheMioceneWudaoliangGroupinstratigraphiccoordinates(Declination/Inclination=3.6°/36.4°,k=161.0,α95=9.7°,N=3Sites)passreversaltests,indicatingtheprimarynatureofthecharacteristicmagnetizations.OurresultssuggestedthatthesampledareasintheTuotuohedepressionoftheHohXilbasinhaveundergonenopaleomagneticallydetectablerotationsundersinglethrustingfromtheTanggulathrustsystem.Ourfindings,togetherwithconstraintsfromothertectoniccharacteristicsreportedbypreviouspaleomagneticstudies,suggesttectonicrotationsintheCuoredejiaandWudaoliangdepressionsoftheHohXilbasinwereaffectedbystrike-slipfaultingoftheFenghuoShan-Nangqianthrustsystems.Acloserexaminationofgeologicaldataanddifferentvertical-axisrotationmagnitudessuggestthetectonichistoryoftheHohXilbasinmaybecontrolledbythrustandstrike-slipfaultingsincetheEocene.更多还原
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出处 《地质学报:英文版》 2016年3期
出版日期 2016年03月13日(中国期刊网平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)
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