Structural framework and its evolution in Chasang area of Qiangtang Basin in northern Tibetan

Through comprehensive research on the various geophysical and geological data acquired recently, we consider that the Chasang area in the western uplift of Qiangtang is a huge south-dipping block which is overlapped by several east-west trending blocks rather than a simple and palaeo-doming existing for a long time. The structural and geophysical features of the area, which only alone limited between Shuanghu and Rongma districts, are of no regional significance. Their development is closely related with the approximately south-north trending transform faults developed during the Mesozoic era on the east and west sides of the area and their later continuous movement. The compressing, overlapping and uplifting of the Chasang area began at the stage of reversing of the Qiangtang Basin during the Lower Cretaceous, which is in direct relation with Bangonghu-Dingqing limited ocean's closure and the convergence of the neighboring blocks. The compression and overlapping of the area have further developed and reformed

藏北羌塘盆地西部查桑地区结构及构造特征

通过对近年新获得的航磁、重力、大地电磁测深和地质等资料的综合研究揭示,羌塘西部隆起查桑段具有明显的南北分带、东西分块和垂向分层的结构、构造特征。该区总体由两(东部)、三(西部)个东西向展布的大型南倾构造块体推覆叠置而成,其间又被数条近南北向断裂分割为若干个断块。各块带出露地层时代、结构构造和地球物理场特征有较大差别。在查桑段及邻区,地壳中上部有两个低阻层,所在的深度分别为15±5km和约40km之下。壳内上部低阻层主要分布在查桑段及其以南,为各块体总体向北运动和逆掩叠覆之底部主拆离推覆面,该区各南倾大断裂均向下收敛并交会到该层。下部低阻层的展布超出了查桑段,向北已达北羌塘坳陷,其影响的范围可能更为广阔。此南北分带、多块叠置的结构和复杂多变的地球物理场特征,仅孤零零地出现在双湖—绒马之间,不具区域意义。其形成与该区东、西两侧中生代始存在的近南北向转换断层和晚古生代可能曾发育有裂谷之背景密切相关。该区段挤压变形和叠覆隆升,始于早白垩世羌塘盆地反转期;始新世以来,印度板块碰撞遂继续向北推挤,又得到进一步的发展、加强及改造。