摘要
The Qaidam Basin is a larger sedimentary basin in western China where the thickness of the Quaternary deposits is in the range of 2000-3000 m at its subsiding center. This paper first dates palaeomagnetically the cores obtained from the five continuously sampled intervals and those from a typical profile, determineds the age of the index fossil zones, and calculates the deposition rates for the varve deposits based on the sedimentological analysis. As a result, we can calculate the ages of the various characteristic beds (including fossil zones, seismic reflection beds, and marker layers of electrical properties) for any given borehole-section when it was divided into facies, and check the validity of the chronology. According to all those studies, the stratigraphic and geochronologic analysis program of the Quaternary deposits in the Qaidam Basin has permitted a detailed discussion to be made in this paper.
<正> The Qaidam Basin is a larger sedimentary basin in western China where the thickness of the Quaternary deposits is in the range of 2000-3000 m at its subsiding center. This paper first dates palaeomagnetically the cores obtained from the five continuously sampled intervals and those from a typical profile, determineds the age of the index fossil zones, and calculates the deposition rates for the varve deposits based on the sedimentological analysis. As a result, we can calculate the ages of the various characteristic beds (including fossil zones, seismic reflection beds, and marker layers of electrical properties) for any given borehole-section when it was divided into facies, and check the validity of the chronology. According to all those studies, the stratigraphic and geochronologic analysis program of the Quaternary deposits in the Qaidam Basin has permitted a detailed discussion to be made in this paper.
