Detrital zircon U-Pb chronology and geological significance of the Middle Jurassic Quesang Hot Spring Formation in Linzhou Basin, Tibet

ZHOU Yu; YANG Wenguang; ZHU Lidong; MI Wentian; XIE Long; ZHONG Yao; MAI Yuanjun; ZHANG Hongliang; LI Nan

doi:10.19826/j.cnki.1009-3850.2021.06001

2023 Vol. 43, No. 4

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ZHOU Yu, YANG Wenguang, ZHU Lidong, MI Wentian, XIE Long, ZHONG Yao, MAI Yuanjun, ZHANG Hongliang, LI Nan. 2023. Detrital zircon U-Pb chronology and geological significance of the Middle Jurassic Quesang Hot Spring Formation in Linzhou Basin, Tibet. Sedimentary Geology and Tethyan Geology, 43(4): 747-758. doi: 10.19826/j.cnki.1009-3850.2021.06001

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ZHOU Yu, YANG Wenguang, ZHU Lidong, MI Wentian, XIE Long, ZHONG Yao, MAI Yuanjun, ZHANG Hongliang, LI Nan. 2023. Detrital zircon U-Pb chronology and geological significance of the Middle Jurassic Quesang Hot Spring Formation in Linzhou Basin, Tibet. Sedimentary Geology and Tethyan Geology, 43(4): 747-758. doi: 10.19826/j.cnki.1009-3850.2021.06001

Detrital zircon U-Pb chronology and geological significance of the Middle Jurassic Quesang Hot Spring Formation in Linzhou Basin, Tibet

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Institute of Sedimentary Geology, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu 610059, China
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School of Mines, Inner Mongolia University of Technology, Hohhot 010051, China
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Key Laboratory of Mineral Resources in Western China (Gansu Province), Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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School of Earth Sciences, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu 610059, China

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Corresponding author: YANG Wenguang, yangwg1018@gmail.com

Received Date: 31 March 2021

Revised Date: 21 May 2021

Publish Date: 31 December 2023

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The Linzhou Basin is located in the middle of the Gangdese Plate. Basin analysis of the Linzhou Basin will provide important sedimentological evidence for understanding the tectonic evolution process of the Gangdese Plate. This paper takes the Middle Jurassic Quesang Hot Spring Formation in the Linzhou Basin as the research object, and conducted petrology and detrital zircon U-Pb chronology. The results show that the youngest detrital zircon age of the lithic quartz sandstone of the Quesang Hot Spring Formation is 169 Ma, with age peaks such as 170-200 Ma, 540-620 Ma, and 1055-1220 Ma. The youngest detrital zircon age is the response to a magmatic event triggered by the subduction of the Tethys oceanic crust. Regional comparative studies of detrital zircons show that the source of the Quesang Hot Spring Formation is mainly from the Tanga-Songduo orogenic belt in central Gangdese, which is a sedimentary record of the northward subduction and southward accretion of the Tethys Ocean.
- Linzhou Basin /
- Middle Jurassic /
- Quesang Hot Spring Formation /
- detrital zircons /
- provenance

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