| Title | Soft-sediment deformation structures in alkaline lake deposits of Lower Permian Fengcheng Formation, Junggar Basin, NW China: implications for syn-sedimentary tectonic activity |
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| Author | Tang, W B; Zhang, Y Y; Pe-Piper, G; Piper, D J W ; Guo, Z; Li, W |
| Source | Sedimentary Geology vol. 406, 105719, 2020 p. 1-19, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2020.105719 |
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| Year | 2020 |
| Alt Series | Natural Resources Canada, Contribution Series 20200098 |
| Publisher | Elsevier B.V. |
| Document | serial |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | paper; on-line; digital |
| File format | pdf; html |
| Area | China |
| Lat/Long WENS | 80.0000 100.0000 50.8333 40.5000 |
| Subjects | surficial geology/geomorphology; tectonics; sedimentology; Science and Technology; Nature and Environment; Lower Permian; tectonic environments; rifts; basins; deformation; faulting; depositional
environment; lacustrine environments; sedimentary structures; seismicity; earthquakes; paleogeography; lithofacies; fans; deltas; Junggar Basin; Fengcheng Formation; Mahu Sag; Phanerozoic; Paleozoic; Permian |
| Illustrations | location maps; geoscientific sketch maps; stratigraphic charts; profiles; lithologic sections; tables; cross-sections; photographs; correlation sections; models |
| Released | 2020 07 02 |
| Abstract | Soft-sediment deformation structures (SSDS) are an important tool for interpreting paleoseismicity and depositional environments in ancient basin successions. The northwestern margin of Junggar Basin is
a key region for understanding the paleogeography and basin attributes of the Junggar Basin during the early Permian. In the Lower Permian (Kungurian) Fengcheng Formation, nine lithofacies are grouped into fan delta, fluvial delta, and shallow, deep
and alkaline lacustrine facies associations. Vertical transitions of the sedimentary environments show that the lake basin experienced expansion during deposition of the Lower (P1f1) and Middle (P1f2) members and the shrinkage during the Upper Member
(P1f3), which is consistent with the paleogeographic distribution of lithofacies in different members. Conventional cores show a wide variety of SSDS, including ductile (folds, convolute lamination, and load structures), hybrid ductile-brittle, and
brittle deformation structures (microfaults, breccias, boudinage and sedimentary dikes). SSDS mainly occurred in a still and deep lacustrine environment. These deformation structures were not formed in any specific lacustrine environment, as there is
no difference with the undeformed sedimentary units of the same sedimentary facies. Thus, the triggering mechanism is interpreted as intermittent earthquakes. Lake expansion under arid condition and SSDS intervals with vertical repetition and
possible lateral continuity indicate that most seismicity was during the Middle member (P1f2), corresponding with the main activity on basin-bounding normal faults. The enhanced faulting at this time generated accommodation, creating lacustrine
conditions in the basin depocenter. It is thus clear that the early Permian Mahu sag represents an active rift basin with bounding faults, and is not a foreland basin. |
| Summary | (Plain Language Summary, not published)
Distribution of structures created by earthquake shaking in old lake sediments provides evidence for the geological evolution of a petroleum-rich rift
basin. Concepts are directly applicable to the Horton Group of Atlantic Canada. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 326375 |
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