Seismogenic strike-slip faulting and the development of the North China Basin

Tectonics ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 975-989 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wang-Ping Chen ◽  
John Nábelek
2020 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
L. Xiao ◽  
Q. Zhao ◽  
J. Wang ◽  
V. Mishra ◽  
S.I. Arbuzov ◽  
...  

Earth has a long geological history and palaeo-wildfire is one of the key factors which is responsible for the evolution and extinction of our earth systems. The most important extinction of our earth systems is the Permian-Triassic mass extinction. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the product of wildfire in terms of distribution and occurrences from the Late Permian North China basin. Fourteen rock samples were collected from a drill core of Hanxing Coalfield of North China basin. The samples were analyzed by macro and micro petrography, Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Gas Chromatography (GC) and Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) in order to study the evidence of wildfire. Charcoal (inertinite) particles are observed in the samples, which established the occurrences of wildfire during the upper Middle and Late Permian time in North China. Additionally, high-molecular-weight Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) were detected in the studied samples which also reinforce the presence of palaeo–wildfire events in the North China basin in Late Permian due to the fact that these aromatic compounds were formed under high temperatures.


2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (10) ◽  
pp. 1180-1192
Author(s):  
Zhen Zhang ◽  
Rihui Cheng ◽  
Yanjie Shen ◽  
Liaoliang Wang ◽  
Xiaoqiang Hu ◽  
...  

The Lower Cretaceous of the eastern depression in the North Yellow Sea Basin is a set of residual strata that can be divided into K1sq1 and K1sq2 sequences. There are four lithology–lithofacies architectures summarized in the third-order sequences of wells W5, W3, W1, W9, W16, W7, W8, and W10, and they are the coarse–fine–coarse, asymmetric coarse–fine, asymmetric fine–coarse, and interbedded coarse and fine. F1, F4, F6, and F7, which are strike-slip faults, were dominant during the Early Cretaceous, and controlled the eastern depression to undergo right-lateral movement from transtension to transpression. The tectonic movement controlled different stratigraphic structure in different areas, and the fan bodies deposited along the basin margin and progradated into the basin center. The sequence models under extensional and strike-slip setting were established respectively. The transtension–transpression movement controlled the development of the sandstones in the Lower Cretaceous and improved the quality of the reservoir rocks.


1988 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 247-250
Author(s):  
Ding Guoyu

Abstract The North China Craton (NCC) began to disintegrate completely in the Yanshan Movement period (Jurassic-Cretaceous) forming a great number of NE, NEN, NW and WNW trending faults. Such fault systems have played an important role in the development of tectonics and seismicity in the Craton area. There has been a big change of stress field since the Pliocene, from predominantly normal faulting to predominantly strike-slip faulting. The NCC is an area with high seismicity. The recent seismicity is obviously controlled by the tectonic framework derived from Craton disintegration. Six strong earthquakes with M > 8.0 in this area have occurred in the past two thousand years. Many strong earthquakes in the NCC area are mainly caused by preexisting faults that move horizontally forming pull-apart basins.


Tectonics ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hong Ye ◽  
K. M. Shedlock ◽  
S. J. Hellinger ◽  
J. G. Sclater

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