Late Cretaceous to Early Paleocene sedimentary environment evolution: Geochemical evidences of Well PBX1 in the southwestern Tarim Basin

YUE Yong; JIANG Shu; TIAN Jingchun; LIN Xin

doi:10.12029/gc20200621001

2024 Vol. 51, No. 2

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YUE Yong, JIANG Shu, TIAN Jingchun, LIN Xin. 2024. Late Cretaceous to Early Paleocene sedimentary environment evolution: Geochemical evidences of Well PBX1 in the southwestern Tarim Basin[J]. Geology in China, 51(2): 592-605. doi: 10.12029/gc20200621001

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YUE Yong, JIANG Shu, TIAN Jingchun, LIN Xin. 2024. Late Cretaceous to Early Paleocene sedimentary environment evolution: Geochemical evidences of Well PBX1 in the southwestern Tarim Basin[J]. Geology in China, 51(2): 592-605. doi: 10.12029/gc20200621001

Late Cretaceous to Early Paleocene sedimentary environment evolution: Geochemical evidences of Well PBX1 in the southwestern Tarim Basin

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Shanghai Branch of CNOOC Ltd., Shanghai 200335, China
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Key Laboratory of Tectonics and Petroleum Resources, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), Wuhan 430074, Hubei, China
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Sedimentary Geology Institute, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu 610059, Sichuan, China
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Petroleum Exploration & Production Research Institute, SINOPEC Northwest Company, Xinjiang 830011, Urumqi, China

Fund Project: Supported by the projeets of China Geological Survey “Geological Survey of Shale Gas around Xuefeng Ancient Land” (No. DD20190558) and National Key R&D Program (No.2022YFF0801202).

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Author Bio: YUE Yong, male, born in 1980, associate researcher, mainly engaged in petroleum geology research; E-mail: 284434090@qq.com

Received Date: 21 June 2020

Revised Date: 18 October 2020

Publish Date: 25 March 2024

Abstract

Abstract

This paper is the result of geological survey engineering.
Objective
The catastrophe and extinctions that occurred in Late Cretaceous is during geological history make the K/Pg boundary become one of the most important geological boundaries in the world. The study of Late Cretaceous–Early Paleocene sedimentary environment evolution of Tarim is helpful to reconstruct the paleogeography in the northern Tethys basins.
Methods
This study employs the sensitivity index analysis of geochemical elements from core samples of Well PBX1 located in the southwestern Tarim Basin to investigate the environment evolution associated with the K/Pg boundary.
Results
The climate was hot and dry in Late Cretaceous and transitioned to a short−term warm and humidity environment in Early Paleocene. The paleo−salinity changed from normal marine environment in Late Cretaceous to brackish water or marine to saline lake in Early Paleocene. The salinity reached minimum at the K/Pg boundary. For redox environment, it experienced the oxic to anoxic environment and weak redox environment in Late Cretaceous to a short−term oxic environment near the boundary to a major anoxic and weak redox environment in Early Paleocene.
Conclusions
The geochemical element sensitivity index of well PBX1 reveals the response characteristics of the catastrophic anomaly event between Cretaceous and Paleocene in the Tarim Basin, which is effective evidence of the of Late Cretaceous–Early Paleocene sedimentary environment evolution in the northern basins of Tethys Ocean.
- sedimentary environment evolution /
- hot and dry type /
- warm and humidity type /
- K/Pg boundary /
- Well PBX1 /
- geological survey engineering /
- southwestern Tarim Basin

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