Sedimentary Character istics of the CretaceousDesert Fac ies in Ordos Basin and The ir Hydrogeological Sign if icance
- Received Date: 2004-02-25
- Rev Recd Date: 2004-06-29
- Publish Date: 2005-03-10
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Key words:
- Ordos basin, Cretaceous, sedimentary Features, distribution and evolution of desert facies /
- groundwater occurrence conditions /
- groundwater circulation conditions /
- groundwater quality /
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Abstract: During Cretaceous, Ordos Basin had gone two desert sedimentation evolution stages involved from Yijun- Luohe stage to Huanhe stage and from Luohandong stage to J ingchuan stage, controlled by areolation and hydro dyna- mism, under the climate evolution and tectonic lifting and subsidence. Luohe stage and Luohandong stage are two ma- jor sedimentation stages of desert facies, desert facies can be divided five sub-facies such as gobis, wades, dunes, inter-dunes, and desert lakes. Among them, sandstones of dunes are the most important desert sediments of Cretaceous; they have many pores, big thickness, stable distribution, lower salt content, and good capability of water-bearing, water-leading, water penetrating. So, dunes sediments not only have good groundwater occurrence-circulation condi- tions, but also bear groundwater of better quality.
Citation: | XIE Yuan, WANG Jian, JIANG Xin-sheng, LI Ming-hui, XIE ZHENG-wen, LUO Jian-ning, HOU Guang-cai, LIU Fang, WANG Yong-he, ZHANG Mao-sheng, ZHU Hua, WANG De-qian, SUN Yong-ming, CAO Jian-ke. Sedimentary Character istics of the CretaceousDesert Fac ies in Ordos Basin and The ir Hydrogeological Sign if icance[J]. Acta Sedimentologica Sinica, 2005, 23(1): 73-83. |