The Litho/Sedimentary Facies Analysis of Lagar Formation,Xainza Area, Tibet
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摘要: 通过详细测制西藏申扎县扎扛—木纠错石炭二叠系剖面,查明了拉嘎组的岩石类型、组合及沉积环境。申扎地区的拉嘎组是以暗色粉砂岩、泥岩等细碎屑岩背景下,发育若干板状、长透镜状及透镜状粗碎屑岩为特征。大部分粗碎屑岩及部分细碎屑岩的分选及磨圆很差,成熟度极低,岩性显示为杂砾岩、杂砂岩,局部地区见有花岗岩漂砾。研究认为,拉嘎组形成于冰缘解冻并后退状态下的近岸冰海沉积环境,其沉积相类型可以分为分支水道与间湾、水下冰水扇、冰碛物与冰筏、滨岸与内陆棚。鉴于其时代可能为早二叠世Sakmarian期,因此,拉嘎组可能是晚古生代冰期消融的产物。拉嘎组沉积相的识别分析对拉萨地块晚古生代的古环境和古地理有重要意义。Abstract: Lagar Formation was developed in Lhasa Block which located between Himalaya belt south and Qiangtang Block north. It represents the glaciomarine deposits related to the Late CarboniferousEarly Permian Gondwana glaciation. However, its litho/sedimentary facies have never been clearly understood. In this paper, the litho/sedimentary facies of the Lagar Formation were analyzed based on the ZhakangMujiucuo section in Xainza County, central Tibet. The lithology of Lagar can be distinguished into five types of rocks assemblage. Assemblage Ⅰ could be supposed to subaqueous ice fan which compose of pebbly coarse grained sandstonesandy shoulder (diamictite), and fine pebbly sandstone gradually. Assemblage Ⅱ is composed of finegrained sandstone developed bimodal crossbedding and muds, and could be regarded as channel and interchannel. Having no bedding, extremely poor sorted, and developed complex components of grave, the rocks of Assemblage Ⅲ was supposed by "tillites". The mainly lithology of Assemblage Ⅳ is dark or grey green silts or calsiltstone, interbeded thick pebbly coarsegrained sandstone and finegrained sandstone. The remarkable character of Assemblage Ⅳ is developed soft sediment deformation in grey green finegrained sandstone, and this should to attribute to sediment gravity flows. Being developed coarse grave and pebbly sandstone in the dark siltstone, the Assemblage Ⅴ also can be attributed to channel extending so far. Assemblage Ⅵ composed of shale laminated finegrained quartz sandstone which is well roundness and sorted should be supposed by coast and shallow sea. According to above, depositional environment of Lagar Formation is proximal glaciomarine environment which identification factor lies in whether the depositional site is proximal or distal to a grounded ice margin (or grounding line of an ice shelf or tongue). Whether ice sheet can be form ice wall near coast tide water depend on the thermal regime of ice sheet and stability of inner ice sheet. The thermal condition at an ice base can be divided into thawed (and thawing) zones where basal ice slides over the substrate producing basal meltwaters that are integrated into a well developed drainage network, and frozen and freezing zones where no free meltwaters available. Ice shelves are also inherently unstable and during times of decreasing mass balance or rising sea level may rapidly disintegrate and revert to a grounded tidewater ice margin that terminates as a steep ice wall in shallower water along the basin margin. According to present literature and depositional models, Early Permian sedimentary facies belts of Indian Gondwana to Tethyan Himalaya show continental tillitesglaciofluvialproximal glaciomarinedistal icerafted debris successively from south to north. And it is said that Lhasa and South Qiangtang block also has been considered distal or superdistal glaciomarine environment. Sedimentation rates in marine environments around thawed/thawing ice margins are much higher than around cold zones. The factors influenced the glacier thermal regime relate to global warming, drift to low latitude and warm currents influence. Global climate became warm with Sakmarian' deglaciation. But at the same time, Lhasa block has been in tectonic activities similar to adjacent Tengchong block and Sibumasu block where rifting from north margin of Austria.
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Key words:
- rock assemblage /
- depositional environments /
- Lagar Formation /
- Early Permian /
- Xainza area /
- Tibet
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