Competing processes of clastic deposition and compartmentalized inversion in an actively evolving transpressional basin, western Mongolia

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 163, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 657-670

  Howard, James P ^a   Cunningham, W D ^a   Davies, S J ^b  

^a CASP   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; DEFORMATION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EROSION; FOLDING; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEDIMENTATION; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THRUST; TRANSPRESSION;

ALTAI MOUNTAINS; ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; MONGOLIA;

EID: 33745601358     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-764904-073     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Allen, M.B. & Vincent, S.J. 1997. Fault reactivation in the Junggar region, Northwest China; the role of basement structures during Mesozoic-Cenozoic compression. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 154, 151-155.
2. Badarch, G., Cunningham, D. & Windley, B. 2002. A new terrane subdivision for Mongolia: implications for the Phanerozoic crustal growth of Central Asia. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 21, 87-110.
3. Baljinnyam, I., Bayasgalan, A. & Borisov, B.A. et al. 1993. Raptures of Major Earthquakes and Active Deformation in Mongolia and its Surroundings. Geological Society of America, Memoirs, 181.
4. Bayasgalan, A., Jackson, J., Jean-François, R. & Carretier, S. 1999a. 'Forebergs', flower structures, and the development of large intracontinental strike-slip faults: the Gurvan Bogd fault system in Mongolia. Journal of Structural Geology, 21, 1285-1302.
5. Bayasgalan, A., Jackson, J., Ritz, J.F. & Carretier. S. 1999b. Field examples of strike-slip fault terminations in Mongolia and their tectonic significance. Tectonics, 18, 394-411.
6. Calais, E., Vergnolle, M., San'kov, V., Lukhnev, A., Mirotshnitchenko, A., Amarjargal, S. & Déverchere, J. 2003. GPS measurements of crustal deformation in the Baikal-Mongolia area (1994-2002): implications for current kinematics of Asia. Journal of Geophysical Research, 108(B10), 2501, doi:10.1029/2002JB002373.
7. Chen, B. & Jahn, B. 2002. Geochemical and isotopic studies of the sedimentary and granitic rocks of the Altai origin of northwest China and their tectonic implications. Geological Magazine, 139, 1-13.
8. Cobbold, P.R. & Davy, P. 1988. Indentation tectonics in nature and experiment: 2. Central Asian Bulletin of Geology, 14, 143-162.
9. Cunningham, W., Windley, B.F., Dorjnamjaa. D., Badamgarov, G. & Saandar, M. 1996a. A structural transect across the Mongolian Western Altai: active transpressional mountain building in central Asia. Tectonics, 15, 142-156.
10. Cunningham, W.D., Windley, B.F., Dorjnamjaa, D., Badamgarov, G. & Saandar, M. 1996b. Late Cenozoic transpression in southwestern Mongolia and the Gobi Altai-Tien Shan connection. Earth and Planetary Sciences, 140, 67-82.
11. Cunningham, W.D., Dijkstra, A., Howard, J.P., Quarles, A. & Badarch, G. 2003. Active intraplate strike-slip faulting and transpressional uplift in the Mongolian Altai. In: Holdsworth, R.E. & Salvini, F. (eds) Intraplate Strike-Slip Deformation Belts. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 210, 65-87.
12. Cunningham, W.D., Davies, S. & Badarch, G. 2003. Crustal architecture and active growth of the Sutai Range, western Mongolia: a major intracontinental, intraplate restraining bend. Journal of Geodynamics, 36, 169-191.
13. Devjatkin, E.V. 1970. Mesozoic and Cenozoic Geology of Western Mongolia. Joint Soviet-Mongolian: Scientific Research Geological Expeditions Transactions, Nauka, Moscow, 1, [in Russian].
14. Devjatkin, E.V. (ed.) 1981. The Cenozoic of Inner Asia Stratigraphy. Combined Soviet-Mongolian Scientific Research Geological Expeditions Transactions, Nauka, Moscow, 27, [in Russian].
15. Devjatkin, E.V., Nagibina, P. & Khosbayar, 1975. Neotectonic structures of western Mongolia. In: Yanshin, A.L. (ed.) Mesozoic and Cenozoic Tectonics and Magmatism of Mongolia. Combined Soviet-Mongolian Scientific Research Geological Expeditions Transactions, Nauka, Moscow, 11, 44-102 [in Russian].
16. England, P. & Molnar, P. 1990. Right lateral shear and rotation as an explanation for strike-slip faulting in eastern Tibet. Nature, 344, 140-142.
17. Graham, S.A., Hendrix, M.S., Barsbold, R., Badamgarav, D., Sjostrom, D., Kirschner, W. & McIntosh, J.S. 1997. Stratigraphic occurrence, paleoenvironment, and description of the oldest known dinosaur (late Jurassic) from Mongolia. Palaios, 12, 292-297.
18. Harvey, A.M. 1988. Controls of alluvial fan development: the alluvial fans of the Sierra de Carrascoy, Murcia, Spain. Catena, 13 (Supplement), 123-137.
19. Hendrix, M.S., Graham, S.A., Carroll, A.R., Sobel, E.R., McKnight, C.L., Schulein, B.J. & Wang, Z. 1992. Sedimentary record and climatic implications of recurrent deformation in the Tien Shan: evidence from Mesozoic strata of the north Tarim, south Junggar, and Turpan basins, northwest China. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 104, 53-79.
20. Holdsworth, R.E., Butler, C.A. & Roberts, A.M. 1997. The recognition of reactivation during continental deformation. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 154, 73-78.
21. Howard, J.P., Cunningham, W.D., Davies, S.J. & Badarch, G. 2003. The stratigraphic and structural evolution of the Dzereg Basin, western Mongolia: clastic sedimentation, transpressional faulting and basin destruction in an intraplate, intracontinental setting. Basin Research, 15, 45-72.
22. Johnson, C.L., Webb, L.E., Graham, S.A., Hendrix, M.S. & Badarch, G. 2001. Sedimentary and structural records of late Mesozoic high-strain extension and strain partitioning, East Gobi basin, southern Mongolia. In: Hendrix, M.S. & Davis, G.A. (eds) Paleozoic and Mesozoic Tectonic Evolution of Central and Eastern Asia from Continental Assembly to Intracontinental Deformation. Geological Society of America, Special Papers, 194, 413-435.
23. Khosbayar, P. 1973. New data on Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous sediments of western Mongolia. Academy of Sciences of USSR, Doklady Earth Sciences Section, 208, 115-116.
24. Leeder, M.R. & Gawthorpe, R.L. 1987. Sedimentary models for extensional tilt-block/half-graben basins. In: Coward, M.P., Dewey, J.F. & Hancock, P.L. (eds) Continental Extensional Tectonics. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 28, 139-152.
25. Meng, Q. 2003. What drove late Mesozoic extension of the northern China-Mongolian tract? Tectonophysics, 369, 155-174.
26. Nemec, W. & Postma, G. 1993. Quaternary alluvial fans in southwestern Crete; sedimentation processes and geomorphic evolution. In: Marzo, M. & Puigdefabregas, C. (eds) Alluvial Sedimentation. International Association of Sedimentologists, Special Publications, 17, 235-276.
27. Schlupp, A. 1996. Néotectonique de la Mongolie occidentale analysée à partir de données de terrain, seismologiques et satellitaires. PhD thesis, Université Louis Pasteur, Ecole et Observatoire de Physique du Globe de Strasbourg.
28. Shuvalov, V.F. 1969. Continental red beds of the upper Jurassic of Mongolia. Doklady Akademii Nauk, SSSR, 189, 1088-1091.
29. Sjostrom, D.J., Hendrix, M.S, Badamgarav, D., Graham, S.A. & Nelson, B.K. 2001. Sedimentology and provenance of Mesozoic nonmarine strata in western Mongolia: a record of intracontinental deformation. In: Hendrix, M.S. & Davis, G.A. (eds) Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Tectonic Evolution of Central and Eastern Asia, from Continental Assembly to Intracontinental Deformation. Geological Society of America, Memoirs, 194, 361-388.
30. Tapponnier, P. & Molnar, P. 1979. Active faulting and tectonics of the Tien Shan, Mongolia and Baykal regions. Journal of Geophysical Research, 84, 3425-3459.
31. Thomas, J.C., Lanza, R., Kazansky, A., Zykin, V., Semakov, N., Mitrokhin, D. & Delvaux, D. 2002. Paleomagnetic study of Cenozoic sediments from the Zaisan basin (SE Kazakhstan) and the Chuya depression (Siberian Altai): tectonic implications for central Asia. Tectonophysics, 351, 119-137.
32. Tomurtogoo, O. (ed.) 1999. Geological map of Mongolia. scale 1:1 000 000. The Mongolian Academy of Sciences, IGMR & MRAM, Ulaan Baatar.
33. Traynor, J.J. & Sladen, C. 1995. Tectonic and stratigraphic evolution of the Mongolian People's Republic and its influence on hydrocarbon geology and potential. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 12, 35-52.
34. Vincent, S.J. & Allen, M.B. 2001. Sedimentary record of Mesozoic intracontinental deformation in the eastern Junggar Basin, northwest China: response to orogeny at the Asian margin. In: Hendrix, M.S. & Davis, G.A. (eds) Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Tectonic Evolution of Central and Eastern Asia, from Continental Assemhly to Intracontinental Deformation. Geological Society of America, Memoirs, 194, 345-363.
35. Webb, L.E., Graham, S.A., Johnson, C.L., Badarch, G. & Hendrix, M.S. 1999. Occurrence, age, and implications of the Yagan-Onch Hayrhan metamorphic core complex, southern Mongolia. Geology, 27, 143-146.
36. Windley, B.F., Kröner, A., Guo, J., Qu, G., Li, Y. & Zhang, C. 2002. Neoproterozoic to Paleozoic geology of the Altai orogen, NW China: new zircon age data and tectonic evolution. Journal of Geology, 110, 719-737.
37. Yeats, R.S., Huftile, G.J. & Stitt, L.T. 1994. Late Cenozoic tectonics of the East Ventura Basin, Transverse Ranges, California. AAPG Bulletin, 78, 1040-1074.
38. Zaitsev, N.S. 1978. Geological Map of the Mongolian Altai, scale 1:500 000. Combined Soviet-Mongolian Scientific Research Geological Expeditions, Nauka, Moscow [in Russian].
39. Zhang, Z.H.M., Liou, J.G. & Coleman, R.G. 1984. An outline of the plate tectonics of China. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 95, 295-312.
40. Zoback, M.L. 1992. First- and second-order patterns of stress in the lithosphere: the world stress map project. Journal of Geophysical Research, 97, 11703-11711.