Discovery of Early Paleozoic Strata in South of Qiangtang, Northern Tibet and Its Significance
-
摘要: 藏北羌塘南部地区沿龙木错-双湖缝合带南侧发育大面积的变质岩系, 此前统称为阿木岗群.由于没有发现古生物化石, 时代归属争议很大.有人依缝合带以北查桑地区有未变质的含古生物化石泥盆系出露为据, 将该套变质岩系时代归属前泥盆纪, 多数人是根据所测同位素年龄值, 确定其时代为前震旦系.2003—2004年我们在玛依岗日一带变质岩系上部采获大量鹦鹉螺类和笔石类化石, 经研究确定时代属中、晚奥陶世-志留纪.在羌塘南部地区发现有可靠化石依据的早古生代地层存在尚属首次.为该岩系的时代归属、地层划分及与邻区对比提供了古生物证据, 也为研究该区岩相古地理、大地构造格局提供了可靠资料.Abstract: Due to the lack of fossil evidence, the age of Amugang Group, previously referring to the large area of metamorphic formations developed along the south of Longmucuo-Shuanghu suture in southern Qiangtang area, northern Tibet, has been under heated debate. Some geologists were convinced that the age of metamorphic formations was of Pre-Devonian according to the emergence of nonmetamorphic fossil-bearing Devonian in Chasang area, north of the suture. Most geologists believed that its age was of Pre-Sinian. From 2003 to 2004, we collected a large amount of Nautiloid and Graptolite fossils in upper metamorphic formations of Mayigangri area and determined the age to be middle and Late Ordovician-Silurian. It is the first time to discover the Early Paleozoic strata based on reliable fossils, which not only provides evidence to its age ascription, classification of the strata and its correlation to adjacent areas but also offers data to lithofacies, palaeogeography and tectonic pattern of studied area.
-
Key words:
- northern Tibet /
- southern Qiangtang /
- Early Paleozoic strata /
- Nautiloid /
- Graptolite
-
图 3 部分化石野外照片
1, 5.Michelinoceras paraelongatum.1.自然风化面, ×0.9, 采集号: P14H13-2, 登记号: 04Chy-02;5.自然风化面, ×0.8, 采集号: P14H13-10, 登记号: 04Chy-10, 采集层位: 羌塘南部古生界中上奥陶统; 2.Michelinoceras sp., 自然风化面, ×1, 采集号: P14H16-2, 登记号: 04Chy-39, 采集层位: 羌塘南部古生界中上奥陶统; 3, 6, 7.Sinoceras sp., 3.自然风化面, ×1, 采集号: P14H13-8, 登记号: 04Chy-08;6.自然风化面, ×1, 采集号: P14H19-2, 登记号: 04Chy-57;7.自然风化面, ×1.5, 采集号: P14H17-12, 登记号: 04Chy-40, 采集层位: 羌塘南部古生界中上奥陶统; 4.Michelinoceras?huangnigangense, 背腹纵切面, ×1, 采集号: P14H13-19, 登记号: 04Chy-19, 采集层位: 羌塘南部古生界中上奥陶统; 8, 9.Monograptus sp., 8.自然层面, ×1, 采集号: P14H22-2, 登记号: 04Chb-02;9.自然层面, ×1, 采集号: P14H22-10, 登记号: 04Chb-10, 采集层位: 羌塘南部上古生界志留系; 10.Pristiograptus sp., 自然层面, ×1, 采集号: P14H22-7, 登记号: 04Chb-07, 采集层位: 羌塘南部上古生界志留系; 11.Climacograptus sp., 自然层面, ×1, 采集号: P14H22-19, 登记号: 04Chb-19, 采集层位: 羌塘南部上古生界志留系
Fig. 3. Field photograph of some fossils
-
[1] Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources of Xizang Autonomous Region, 1993. Regional geology of Xizang (Tibet) Autonomous Region. Geological Publishing House, Beijing, 10-29 (in Chinese). [2] Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources of Xizang Autono-mous Region, 1997. Stratigraphy (lithostratic) of Xi-zang Autonomous Reigon. China University of Geosci-ences Press, Wuhan, 72-84 (in Chinese). [3] Cheng, L. R., Zhang, Y. J., Zhang, Y. C., 2004. New progress inthe study of Paleozoic stratainthe Xainza area, Tibet. Geological Bulletin of China, 23 (9-10): 1018-1022 (in Chinese with English abstract). [4] Cheng, L. R., Zhang, Y. J., Zhang, Y. C., 2005. Ordovician Nautiloid fossils of Xainza region, Tibet. Journal of Jilin University (Earth Science Edition), 35 (3): 273-283 (in Chinese with English abstract). [5] Wen, S. X, 1979. New materials of strata from north of Tibet. Journal of Stratigraphy, 3 (2): 150-156 (in Chinese with English abstract). [6] Wu, R. Z., 1986. Discovery and geological significance of Middle Devonianin Shuanghu. In: Li T. D., Liu, Z. Q., Yuan, X. C., et al., eds., Contribution to the geology of the Qinghai-Xizang (Tibet) Plateau (9). Geological Publishing House, Beijing, 33-39 (in Chinese with English abstract). [7] Wu, R. Z., Hu, C. Z., Wang, C. S., et al., 1986. The stratigraphical system of Qiangtang district in northern Xizang (Tibet). In: Li, T. D., Liu, Z. Q., Yuan, X. C., et al., eds., Contribution to the geology of the Qinghai-Xizang (Tibet) Plateau (9). Geological Publishing House, Beijing, 1-32 (in Chinese with English abstract). [8] 西藏地质矿产局, 1993. 西藏自治区区域地质志. 北京: 地质出版社, 10-29. [9] 西藏地质矿产局, 1997. 西藏自治区岩石地层. 武汉: 中国地质大学出版社, 72-84. [10] 程立人, 张予杰, 张以春, 2004. 西藏申扎地区古生代地层研究新进展. 地质通报, 23 (9-10): 1018-1022. https://www.cnki.com.cn/Article/CJFDTOTAL-ZQYD2004Z2027.htm [11] 程立人, 张予杰, 张以春, 2005. 西藏申扎地区奥陶纪鹦鹉螺化石. 吉林大学学报(地球科学版), 35 (3): 273-283. https://www.cnki.com.cn/Article/CJFDTOTAL-CCDZ200503000.htm [12] 文世宣, 1979. 西藏北部地层新资料. 地层学杂志, 3 (2): 150-156. https://www.cnki.com.cn/Article/CJFDTOTAL-DCXZ197902012.htm [13] 吴瑞忠, 1986. 藏北双湖查桑地区中泥盆统的发现及地质意义. 见: 李廷栋, 刘增乾, 袁学诚, 等, 青藏高原地质文集(9). 北京: 地质出版社, 33-40. [14] 吴瑞忠, 胡承祖, 王成善, 等, 1986. 藏北羌塘地区地层系统. 见: 李廷栋, 刘增乾, 袁学诚, 等, 青藏高原地质文集(9). 北京: 地质出版社, 1-32.