Reconstruction of proto-type basin and tectono-paleogeography of Tarim block in early Paleozoic
Ziqi Zhong1* 
Jinkai Xia1 
Shaoying Huang2 Caiming Luo2 
Haining Chang1 
Xiang Li1 
Lunyan Wei1 Hao Zhang1- 1The Key Laboratory of Orogenic Belts and Crustal Evolution, Ministry of Education, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
- 2Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development, Tarim Oilfield Company, Korla, China
Tarim Basin is a large, superimposed basin rich in petroleum resources, which has experienced many stages of complex tectonic-sedimentary evolution. As the basic geological study of the Tarim Basin, the proto-type basin and tectono-paleogeographic evolution are of great significance for understanding the distribution of petroleum reservoirs in the superimposed basin and provide tectonic background and theoretical guidance for petroleum exploration. According to the residual thickness map, as well as other lithofacies and seismic data, the scopes of the proto-type basin are determined by the marginal facies method and the thickness trend method, and the shortening amounts are calculated by the balanced cross-section method. Based on these data and previous works, four proto-type basin maps of Tarim Basin in present-day geographic coordinates and four tectono-paleogeographic maps of Tarim Basin in paleogeographic coordinates during the early Paleozoic are reconstructed, which directly show the changes of sedimentary and uplift-depression pattern caused by the transformation of the tectonic environment from extension to compression. In the Cambrian, the Tarim Basin was controlled by the extensional tectonic environment, with the sedimentary framework of “carbonate platform in the west, deep-water basin in the east”. At the end of the Ordovician, the Kudi Ocean and the North Altyn Ocean were closed, and the Central and South Kunlun terrane and the Altyn-Qilian terrane were collaged with the Tarim block, which directly led to the transformation of the uplift-depression pattern in the Tarim Basin from east-west differentiation to north-south differentiation, thus changing the sedimentary environment of the Tarim Basin in the late Ordovician to Silurian.
1 Introduction
Tarim Basin is a large, superimposed basin in northwest China, located between the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and Tianshan Mountains, covering an area of more than 560,000 square kilometers. It has great potential for petroleum exploration (Li et al., 2019; Tian et al., 2021), and its rich petroleum resources depend on good reservoir-forming conditions, which means that the exploration of petroleum resources needs sufficient basic geological research as a support. The Tarim Basin developed on the Tarim block and underwent multiple stages of complex tectonic-sedimentary evolution (Jia., 1997; He et al., 2005; Lin et al., 2011; Li et al., 2015). The evolutionary history of the Tarim block involves the convergence and disintegration of several supercontinents, including the Rodinia and the Gondwana supercontinent (Xu et al., 2011; Torsvik and Cocks, 2013; Li et al., 2014, 2015; Maruyama et al., 2014; He et al., 2015).
Many achievements have been made in the study of the Tarim proto-type basin and tectono-paleogeography in the early Paleozoic (Chen et al., 2015; Gao et al., 2016, 2017a, 2017b; Tian et al., 2018), but there is a lack of research on the systematic combination of the tectonic background and the proto-type basin. The Tarim Basin has experienced many stages of complex tectonic evolution and the superimposed geological evolution of multiple original basins, which strongly reshaped the original paleogeographic features of the Tarim Basin. The peripheral background of each stage of the Tarim Basin is an intuitive reflection of tectonism, which is closely related to the restoration of the Tarim proto-type basin (Lin et al., 2011; Li et al., 2015; Wu et al., 2020). According to residual thickness maps, rock facies, drilling data, and numerous seismic profiles, the proto-type basin and tectono-paleogeographic maps of Tarim Basin in the early Paleozoic are reconstructed in the paper.
2 Geological setting and plate tectonic configuration
2.1 Regional setting
The Tarim block is located between the Central Asian orogenic belt and the Tethys domain, sandwiched between the West Kunlun, Altyn Tagh, and South Tianshan Mountains (Figure 1A). The Yili terrane, the Central Tianshan terrane, the Altyn-Qilian terrane, and the Central and South Kunlun terrane are distributed clockwise in the periphery of the Tarim block from south to north, bounded by the South Tianshan Ocean, North Altyn Ocean and Kudi Ocean in the early Paleozoic (Figure 1B). The Tarim Basin is composed of Archean-early Neoproterozoic metamorphic crystalline basement and thick Nanhua-Quaternary sedimentary rock series, which can be divided vertically into five structural layers: pre-Nanhua basement, Nanhua-Sinian rift basin, Cambrian-Ordovician marine carbonate platform, Silurian-Cretaceous clastic rock depression and Cenozoic foreland basin (Figure 1C, Jia., 2004; Lin et al., 2011; Wu et al., 2020; Wu et al., 2021). According to the unconformities, the sedimentary tectonic evolution of the Tarim Basin is divided into four major development and evolution stages, with seven tectonic episodes (Lin et al., 2011; Wu et al., 2020; Wu et al., 2021). The Sinian-late Devonian is the first stage, which is controlled by Caledonian movement and experiences a complete tectonic cycle (Figure 1C, Lin et al., 2008, 2011). In the early Paleozoic, the Tarim Basin was essentially in the marine environment and developed extensive marine deposits. During the Sinian to Silurian period, the oceans around the Tarim Basin experienced a process of expansion to closure, which played a decisive role in the internal subsidence and filling evolution model of the basin.
FIGURE 1. (A) Location of the Tarim Basin. (B) Tectonic framework of the Tarim Basin (modified after He et al., 2016). Structural units of the Tarim Basin: 1-Kuqa Depression; 2-Kepingtage Faulted-uplift; 3-Tabei Uplift; 4-Kongquehe Slope; 5-Awati Depression; 6-Shuntuoguole Uplift; 7-Manjiaer Depression; 8-Bachu Uplift; 9-Tazhong Uplift; 10-Guchengxu Uplift; 11-Kashi Depression; 12-Maigaiti Slope; 13-Tangguzibas Depression; 14-Tanan Uplift; 15-Shache Bulge; 16-Yecheng Depression; 17-Southeast Depression. The shortening amount is integrated on four representative lines (AA’, BB’, CC’ and DD’ in Table 2), which are red lines. (C) Tectonic-sedimentary evolution sequence of Tarim Basin in the middle-late Proterozoic to Devonian (modified after Lin et al., 2011).
In the late Proterozoic to early Cambrian, the Tarim Basin was in the stage of rapid extensional subsidence, accompanied by the development of a series of rifts (Xu et al., 2008; Yun et al., 2014; Wu et al., 2016; Wu et al., 2018; Wu et al., 2020; Wang T et al., 2021), with the pattern of “uplift in the south and depression in the north”. In the Cambrian to early Ordovician, the Tarim block has been separated from the Rodinia supercontinent (Figure 1C), located on the north shore of the original Tethys Ocean (Li et al., 2008; Li et al., 2010; Dong et al., 2018), developing a large carbonate platform with a thickness of more than 2000 m (Li et al., 2010; Gao and Fan, 2015; Gao et al., 2017a). At the end of the early Ordovician, the South Paleo-Tethys Ocean began to subduct (Li et al., 2017; Dong et al., 2018), forming the E-W trending paleo-uplift in the basin by the compression from the south, which was finalized at the end of the Ordovician (Wu et al., 2016). In the late Ordovician, with the closure of the Kudi Ocean and the North Altyn Ocean (Figure 1C, Jia., 2004; Li et al., 2017), the Tarim Basin underwent a great transition from extension to extrusion, and a large area of uplift and denudation occurred in the south and east of the basin, forming a widely distributed unconformity. This situation became more and more intense in the late Ordovician, and the north-south differentiation pattern was formed (Gao et al., 2012; Gao et al., 2016; Gao et al.,2017b; Wu et al., 2016). During the Silurian, the southern part of the Tarim Basin was uplifted on a large scale, and deposits were only developed in the north of the Central Uplift Belt (Figure 1C, Lin et al., 2011, 2012; Zheng et al., 2014).
2.2 Tarim block in the global plate tectonics and its evolution
Restoring the position of paleo-continent or block in deep time is an important part in the paleogeographic reconstruction, and paleomagnetism is the only quantitative tool. By reconstructing the paleomagnetic field, the paleo-latitude, direction, and rotation of the block can be obtained (Torsvik and Cocks, 2004; Hou et al., 2008; Hou et al., 2020; Torsvik et al., 2016; Torsvik and Cocks, 2019). However, the paleo-longitude position of the block cannot be determined by paleomagnetism, and the frequent reversal of paleomagnetism makes it impossible to determine whether the calculated paleolatitude is south latitude or north latitude. At this point, other geological evidence, such as paleontology (Cocks and Torsvik, 2002; Cao et al., 2017), sediment facies, orogenic belts, magmatic activity (Steinberger et al., 2004; Torsvik et al., 2016), marine geophysics (Matthews et al., 2016), and so on, are needed.
(1) The paleogeographic location of the Tarim block based on paleomagnetism
For the Tarim block, on the one hand, due to the large-scale magmatic activity in the Paleo-Asian Oceanic tectonic domain at the end of the late Paleozoic (Xiao et al., 2009) and the significant tectonic deformation caused by the collision between India and the Asian continent in the Cenozoic (Johnson., 2002; Huang et al., 2009), most of the magnetic materials in the early Paleozoic experienced heavy magnetization and could not effectively record the paleogeographic location at that time. On the other hand, the early Paleozoic strata in Tarim Basin are mainly marine limestone and marl with weak magnetism, so it is difficult to obtain reliable primary remanence which represents the information of paleomagnetic field in the period of rock formation. So far, the reliable paleomagnetic data accumulated in the early Paleozoic era are very limited.
After Fischer statistics of these paleomagnetic poles with high confidence (Van der Voo., 1990), the paleomagnetic pole positions of the Tarim block in the early Paleozoic are obtained (Table 1, Li et al., 1990; Fang et al., 1996; Huang et al., 2019). Combined with the Apparent Polar Wander Paths (Wen et al., 2017) and peripheral geological background analysis, the global plate tectonic patterns are reconstructed in different periods of the early Paleozoic (Figure 2, late Cambrian, late Ordovician, and late Silurian).
TABLE 1. Summary of available Early Paleozoic paleomagnetic poles for the Tarim block. Slat = Sampling locality Latitude; SLong = Sampling locality Longitude; N/n = Number of sites/number of samples; Plat = Pole Latitude; Plong = Pole Longitude; A95 = 95% confidence oval (or dp/dm, semi minor and major axes of 95% confidence ellipsoid). Cam, O, S, and D indicate the Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, and Devonian times with 1= Early, 2 = Middle, and 3 = Late.
FIGURE 2. Reconstructing of global plates distribution in Cambrian Period (A), Ordovician Period (B), and Silurian Period (C). T-Tarim; NC-North China; SC-South China; Q-Qaidam; NQ-North Qiangtang; IC-Indochina; SQ-South Qiangtang; J-Junggar; K-Kazakhstan. (modified after Huang et al., 2018; Zhao et al., 2018).
The Tarim block was located in the middle-low latitude of the southern Hemisphere during the late Cambrian period (Table 1, Figure 2A, Huang et al., 2018; Zhao et al., 2018), along with the South China block on the western side of the Gondwana supercontinent. The periphery of the Tarim block is in a passive continental margin environment, and although the original Tethys Ocean has been formed between the Tarim block and Australia plate, they are still related and similar in many aspects (Figure 2A, Zhao et al., 2018). At this time, the eastern continental groups, such as North China block and Siberia plate, have shifted from the other side of the earth to the Western Hemisphere (Huang et al., 2018), and the three Chinese blocks (North China block, Sorth China block, and Tarim block) show an N-S/T pattern (Figure 2A, Zhao et al., 2018).
After the middle-late Ordovician, the close relationship between the South China block and the Gondwana supercontinent is likely to last until the middle Devonian (Yang et al., 2004), while the Tarim block, located on the outermost margin of the Gondwana supercontinent, separated from it with its rapid clockwise rotation (Van der Voo., 1993) and moved northwestward rapidly from middle-late Ordovician to middle Silurian to cross the ancient equator (Figures 2B, C). The paleomagnetic poles of the middle-late Ordovician and Silurian further confirmed that a large southward apparent polar wander occurred in the Tarim block, which may be related to the significant northwestward movement and rotation of the Tarim block during the early Paleozoic (Sun and Huang, 2009).
By the end of the Silurian, the Tarim block had made a large drift to the northwest and completely broke away from the Gondwana supercontinent (Figure 2C, Huang et al., 2008, 2018; Zhao et al., 2018). This is consistent with the closure of the Kudi Ocean and the North Altyn Ocean on the southern margin of the Tarim block, in the late Ordovician-Silurian, and the collage events of the Central and South Kunlun terrane and the Altyn-Qilian terrane (Li et al., 2017). The late Ordovician to Silurian is the key period for the transition from N-S/T pattern to T-N/S pattern for the three blocks in China (Figure 2C, Zhao et al., 2018).
(2) The relationship between Tarim block and the surrounding block based on geological affinity
The South China block and Tarim block were at the same latitude in the early Paleozoic, and the changes of magnetic declination recorded by the two blocks were also similar, indicating that the two blocks were closely related in the early Paleozoic. In addition, the affinity between the two blocks and the Gondwana supercontinent, in the early Paleozoic, is supported by a large amount of geological and paleogeographic data (Huang et al., 2000; Sun and Huang., 2009).
The geological study shows that the South China block and the Tarim block are consistent in the spatial distribution of Sinian tillite, and there are strong similarities in Cambrian and Ordovician sediments, biota characteristics, and their temporal and spatial distribution, indicating that South China and Tarim blocks are closely related from Sinian to Ordovician (Zhu et al., 1998). Moreover, the age of basement formation and the early Paleozoic metallogenic effects of the South China block and Tarim block show clear similarities to those of the Australia plate (Nie, 1991).
During the Ordovician period, the South China block, Tarim block, and Australia plate are very similar in the appearance of chitin and other paleontological groups, which are likely to belong to the “Pacific type” with high disparity (Duan and Ge, 1992; Chen and WangLi, 1996; Duan and Ge, 2005; Sun and Huang., 2009). The paleogeographic study of trilobites shows that all of the North China block, South China block, and Australia plate belong to the Asian-Australian biological region, but there are significant differences between the North and South China blocks. In the comparison of the detrital zircon age spectrum, the south China and Tarim blocks have obvious differences with the north China block, which suggests that, even if the paleolatitude of these three blocks are very close (Huang et al., 2018), the North China block may be far away from other blocks in spatial location.
3 Database and methods
3.1 Database
The Tarim proto-type basin is an important research object. At present, the early Paleozoic maps of the Tarim Basin mainly include the tectonic-sedimentary environment maps compiled by Gao et al., 2016;Gao et al., 2017a; Gao et al., 2017b, the sedimentary model maps compiled by Chen et al., 2015, and the lithofacies paleogeographic maps provided by Tarim Oilfield Company.
The main data used include the residual thickness maps of Tarim Basin (Figure 3), the evolution maps of the equilibrium profile of Tarim Basin, the stratigraphic correlation maps of Tarim Basin, several seismic profiles (Figure 4 for example), and the peripheral margin shortening rate of Tarim Basin in Cenozoic (Jia et al., 2006; He et al., 2013; Chen et al., 2015; Tian et al., 2018; Laborde et al., 2019 and data from Tarim Oilfield Company).
FIGURE 3. Residual thickness maps of Tarim in late middle-Cambrian (A), late Cambrian (B), late Ordovician (C), and late Silurian (D). (modified after Chen et al., 2015 and data comes from Tarim Oilfield Company).
FIGURE 4. Geological interpretation of seismic section BB’. The location of this seismic section is shown in Figure 1B.
3.2 Principles
The principles of proto-type basin recovery can be simply summarized as the following three aspects: the initial status, the practical process, and the real location (Lou et al., 2016; He et al., 2020; Liu et al., 2020), called P1, P2, and P3 hereafter.
P1 is to restore the scope and sedimentary facies distribution of the proto-type basin, and then analyze the type of the basin, including the uplift-depression pattern and sedimentary system of the proto-type basin, which needs to be restored on the basis of drilling, outcrop, seismic profile, and other basic data, especially the constraint condition of the basin boundary and the recovery of denudation area (Tong and He, 2001; Zhang G. Y. et al., 2019; Zheng et al., 2021; Wang, p et al., 2021).
P2 is to restore the superposition transformation process of the proto-type basin, that is, the recovery of extension or shortening. Under the transformation of tectonics such as the Caledonian movement and Himalayan movement, there may be a great difference between the observed sedimentary range and the original sedimentary range, and the shortening can be calculated by the restoration of balanced cross sections (Laborde et al., 2019).
P3 is to restore the tectonic position during the development of the proto-type basin. On the one hand, to determine the paleo-position of the plate, that is, the paleolatitude, which can be measured and calculated by paleomagnetism (Torsvik and Cocks, 2004; Hou et al., 2020) and analogy through the method of comparative tectonics; on the other hand, the basin-mountain relationship is established by source-to-sink system analysis and clastic zircon analysis, which is useful for determining the relative position of the plate (Hou et al., 2019; Shao et al., 2019).
3.3 Methods
The proto-type basin restoration methods for the Tarim Basin are mainly based on P1 and P2, and P3 is used to determine the location of the Tarim block in the global plate tectonics. Detailed methods are described below.
(1) The core point of the proto-type basin restoration lies in the scope of the proto-type basin. To determine the scope of the proto-type basin is to determine the boundary of the proto-type basin, which can be determined by the marginal facies method and the thickness trend method. The premise of using the marginal facies method is to clarify the type of the proto-type basin, different basins have different marginal facies, such as the marginal facies of lake basins are fan delta facies (Jiang, 2010; Ji et al., 2020; Wang and Lin, 2021). The thickness trend method can find the boundary of the proto-type basin with the help of the trend of the isopach in the isopach map, and it can also be analyzed by the trend surface of a certain thickness layer in the seismic profile (Zhang C, L et al., 2007; Yu et al., 2016). The residual thickness map is limited to the interior of the present Tarim Basin, so it is necessary to make up the isopach so as to restore the denudation area. The precondition of completing the isopach is to clarify the type of the proto-type basin, which can judge the opening and closing of the isopach. For example, the isopach of a rift basin is generally symmetric, while that of a foreland basin is asymmetric.
(2) Restoring the original scope of the proto-type basin is indispensable, which means restoration to the state prior to shortening or expansion. The balanced cross-section method is to expand the scope of the proto-type basin after calculating the shortening by the balanced cross-section technique (Lou et al., 2016; Laborde et al., 2019).
(3) According to the tectonic background analysis of the Tarim Basin, the island arc, terrane and ocean are placed on the peripheral margin of the Tarim Basin to show the oceanic-continental pattern. This step also needs to clarify the type of the peripheral basin of the Tarim block. If the basin is a passive continental margin basin, then the scope of the corresponding basin is relatively wide, and the terrane can be far away from the Tarim block; if the peripheral basin is an active continental margin, then the range of the basin is relatively narrower, and the terrane can be close to the Tarim block.
4 Result
4.1 Shortening amount of Tarim Basin
Laborde et al. (2019) made a detailed analysis of the shortening amount of Tarim Basin caused by various factors in the Cenozoic era (Table 2). Based on the statistical analysis of 81 profiles, in which 10 profiles (BB’ for example, Figure 4) are recovered (Figure 5) by this study and 71 profiles provided by Tarim Oilfield Company, the shortening amount (Table 2) of 4 representative lateral lines (AA’, BB’, CC’, DD’, which are shown in Figure 1B), from early Paleozoic to pre-Cenozoic, are obtained.
TABLE 2. Shortening amount of Tarim Basin from Cenozoic, Silurian, Ordovician, Cambrian to the present (km).
FIGURE 5. Recovered balanced cross-section of BB’. The location of this seismic section is shown in Figure 1B. The red dotted lines visually represent the boundary between the margin and the interior of the Tarim Basin.
Due to the influence of the Pamir Salient on the west side of the Tarim Basin, the shortening of the Tarim Basin gradually decreases from west to east, and the Cenozoic shortening rate accounts for the largest proportion of the total shortening rate in the western margin of the Tarim Basin, especially in the southwestern margin, up to 70% (southern margin of BB’, Table 2). According to the calculated shortening rate of each side, the scope of the proto-type basin can be extended. It should be noted that the shortening amount of the Tarim Basin is mainly reflected in the margin of the Tarim Basin, which is shown visually on the outside of these two red dotted lines in Figure 5, and the impact on the interior of the Tarim Basin can be ignored.
4.2 Reconstruction of early Paleozoic proto-type Tarim Basin
Due to the long-term and complexity of geological evolution, the original proto-type basin will experience many tectonic actions of different properties. During these tectonic processes, the uplifting pattern, basin properties, and distribution of sedimentary facies in the Tarim Basin have undergone great change, which play important roles in hydrocarbon accumulation, migration, and trap (Lin et al., 2008). Through the analysis of residual basin fillings and tectonic background, restoring the proto-type of the basin and analyzing the later transformation is of great significance to understand the distribution of petroleum reservoirs in the superimposed basin (Wang et al., 2010; Chen et al., 2017).
(1) Proto-type Tarim Basin in late Middle Cambrian
In the Middle Cambrian, the Tarim Basin was mainly controlled by the extensional tectonic environment (Lin et al., 2008; Yun et al., 2014). The South Tianshan Ocean is in a stage of continuous expansion, with the South Tianshan intercontinental rift developed in the northern margin of the Tarim Basin. Meanwhile, the Kudi Ocean and the North Altyn Ocean, located in the southern margin of the Tarim Basin, reached the maximum range (Figure 6A).
FIGURE 6. Proto-type basin of Tarim and adjacent areas in late Middle Cambrian (A) and late Cambrian (B).
Under the extensional background, the internal uplift-depression pattern of the Tarim Basin changes from north-south differentiation to east-west differentiation, with the embryonic form of “carbonate platform in the west, deep-water basin in the east” appearing (Chen et al., 2015; Li et al., 2015; Gao et al., 2017a). In the western part of the Tarim Basin, the intracratonic basin, characterized by restricted platform sedimentation, widely developed plaster-salt rock facies (Figure 6A), which are good reservoir strata, while the cratonic marginal basin in the eastern part of the Tarim Basin, featured on deep-water deposits, developed siliceous-bearing mudstone (Gao, 2015; Zhang et al., 2015; Wu et al., 2016; Gao et al., 2017a) and has not yet achieved north-south penetration in space (Figure 6A). On the whole, the ramp - evaporate platform - platform margin - slope - deep-water facies model (Chen et al., 2015; Tian et al., 2018) was developed in the Tarim Basin during the middle Cambrian. Passive continental margin basin is developed in both the southern and northern margin of the Tarim Basin, especially the passive continental margin basin in the southwest of the Tarim Basin, where the shelf facies have a wide distribution range, which is beneficial to hydrocarbon generation.
(2) Proto-type Tarim Basin in late Cambrian
In the late Cambrian, as a whole, it inherited the basin pattern of the middle Cambrian (Figure 6B), which was still controlled by the extensional tectonic environment (Lin et al., 2008; Yun et al., 2014). The South Tianshan Ocean, in the northern margin of the Tarim Basin, continued to expand, while the Kudi Ocean and Altyn Ocean in the southern margin of the Tarim Basin were getting narrow (Figure 6B).
At the end of the late Cambrian, the cratonic marginal basin in the eastern part of the Tarim Basin achieved north-south penetration in space, and the paleogeographic pattern “east-west differentiation” was completely formed (Gao et al., 2012; Gao et al., 2017a). The platform formation developed in the west, dominated by open-platform deposition, while in the east it was dominated by deep-water basin facies deposition (Figure 6B, Zhang et al., 2015; Wu et al., 2016; Gao et al., 2017a). As a whole, the restricted platform—semi-restricted platform—open platform—platform margin—slope—deep-water facies model (Chen et al., 2015) was developed in the Tarim Basin during the late Cambrian. Compared with the early Middle Cambrian (Figure 6A), the main change in the late Cambrian is the disappearance of evaporate platform facies, transforming to semi-restricted and restricted platform, which indicates that the relative sea level of the late Cambrian gradually rose and the water body deepened slowly, with the plaster-salt rock facies vanishing (Figure 6B). Passive continental margin basins still developed in the southern and northern margin of the Tarim Basin, the former becoming wider and the latter narrowing due to the subduction of the Kudi Ocean and the North Altyn Ocean.
(3) Proto-type Tarim Basin in late Ordovician
In the middle-late Ordovician, the subduction of the Kudi Ocean and the North Altyn Ocean led to the transformation of the tectonic environment from extension to compression in the southern margin of the Tarim Basin (Lin et al., 2008; Yun et al., 2014; Li et al., 2015; Zhang L. N. et al., 2019; Wu et al., 2021). At the end of the Ordovician, the South Tianshan Ocean reached the maximum, then subducted northward to the Central Tianshan and Yili terranes and southward to the Tarim block (Figure 7A, Lin et al., 2012; Jiang et al., 2014).
FIGURE 7. Proto-type basin of Tarim and adjacent areas in late Ordovician (A) and late Silurian (B).
In the Ordovician, under the influence of the subduction of the Kudi Ocean and the North Altyn Ocean, the uplift-depression pattern of the Tarim Basin changed from east-west differentiation to north-south differentiation (Figure 7A, Lin et al., 2012; Yun et al., 2014; Gao et al., 2016, Gao et al., 2017b), and the peripheral uplift of the Tarim Basin was obvious, especially in the southwest of the Tarim Basin, with the depocenter of the basin migrating to the Manjiaer Depression and the Tabei Uplift surfaced for the first time (Figure 7A). The intracratonic basin developed in the middle of the Tarim Basin, and the back-arc foreland basin (Figure 7A) developed in the southeast and southwest margin of the Tarim Basin, which gradually disappeared under the injection of abundant provenances at the end of Ordovician (Gao et al., 2017b).
(4) Proto-type Tarim Basin in late Silurian
The continuous collision of the Central and South Kunlun and Altyn-Qilian terraces with the Tarim block during the Silurian period resulted in a strong compression of the Tarim Basin, with the South Kunlun Ocean, the South Altyn Ocean, and the South Tianshan Ocean continuing to subduct (Figure 7B, Xu et al., 2011; Li et al., 2015; Wu et al., 2021).
During the Silurian, uplifts developed in the south, north, and east of the Tarim Basin, with depression in the middle (Figure 7B, Lin et al., 2011; Lin et al., 2012; He et al., 2013; Zheng et al., 2014). Topographically, the Tarim Basin is high in the south and low in the north, developing intracratonic depression in the central basin, which provenances are mainly from the eastern and southeastern margins of the Tarim Basin (Figure 7B, Jia et al., 2006; Lin et al., 2011). The shallow sea in the west of the Tarim Basin is open, and the east is blocked with the transgression mainly coming from the north and northwest (Jia et al., 2006; Lin et al., 2011; Li et al., 2015), and the lithofacies paleogeographic pattern of shelf - subtidal - intertidal - supratidal facies is developed from northwest to southeast (Figure 7B, Wu et al., 2020). The back-arc foreland basins in the southeastern and southwestern margin of the Tarim Basin have been extinct, and the Tanan Uplift developed under the background of extrusion.
4.3 Reconstruction of early Paleozoic tectono-paleogeography around the Tarim basin
In the middle Cambrian, the North Altyn Ocean, in the southeast margin of the Tarim block, and the Kudi Ocean, in the southwest margin, began to subduct southward, and the Central and South Kunlun and Altyn-Qilian terrane began to approach the Tarim block (Figure 8A, Gao et al., 2017a; Mou et al., 2018). The South Tianshan Ocean on the northern margin of the Tarim Basin continued to expand, the Yili and Central Tianshan terranes were far away from the Tarim Basin, while the North Tianshan Ocean continued to subduct southward beneath the Yili and Central Tianshan terranes (Figure 8A). It should be noted that the Yili terrane was an arc-basin system, which was divided into North and South Yili, until the end of the Ordovician (Figure 8A, B, Figure 9A, Wang et al., 2012; Wang et al., 2014a; Wang et al., 2014b; Huang et al., 2021). At the end of the middle Cambrian, the Arabian and Indian blocks had not yet been separated from the Gondwana supercontinent, all in a shallow sea environment, dominated by carbonate deposits (Li et al., 2013; Rao et al., 2016), while the Kazakhstan block was free outside the Gondwana, but also developed shallow marine deposits (Shen et al., 2016; Zhang G. Y. et al., 2019).
FIGURE 8. Tectono-paleogeography of Tarim and adjacent areas in late Middle Cambrian (A) and late Cambrian (B).
FIGURE 9. Tectono-paleogeography of Tarim and adjacent areas in late Ordovician (A) and late Silurian (B).
During the Cambrian period, the Tarim block and surrounding blocks were still controlled by the extensional tectonic environment (Lin et al., 2008; Yun et al., 2014). The North Altyn Ocean and the Kudi Ocean continued to subduct southward, thus the North Altyn Ocean and the Kudi Ocean further narrowed, with the Central and South Kunlun and Altyn-Qilian terrane closer to the Tarim block (Figure 8B). From a more macro perspective, the Paleo-Asian Ocean and the Proto-Tethys Ocean were also subducting towards the Tarim block (Figure 8B, Zhao et al., 2018). At the end of the Cambrian, driven by the subduction of the Shangdan Ocean, the North China block collided with the South China block, which formed the Shangdan suture zone and developed uplifts in the interior of the North and South China blocks (Chen and Liu, 2011; Li and Jiang, 2013, Lin et al., 2016), with shallow marine deposits in the periphery (Hu et al., 2022; Zhang G. Y. et al., 2019; Zhang et al., 2019).
In the Ordovician, except for the Gondwana Supercontinent, all the other landmasses drifted northward, and the Tarim, South China, and North China blocks also drifted to low latitudes (Figure 9A, Huang et al., 2018; Zhao et al., 2018). The South China and North China blocks separated again, and the latter drifted westward relative to the Tarim block, accompanied by clockwise rotation (Figure 9A, Huang et al., 2018; Zhao et al., 2018). The Tarim block and its surrounding areas are under compression environment, and part of the South and North China blocks have developed large-scale uplifts, other areas developing shallow marine deposits with the Qaidam terrane, North Qiangtang terrane, and the northwestern margin of the Arabian Plate, located on the margin of the Gondwana (Figure 9A, Feng et al., 2004; Li et al., 2013; Chen et al., 2015; Zhou et al., 2017; Zhang G. Y. et al., 2019). Until the end of the Ordovician, the middle Caledonian movement led to the closure of the Kudi Ocean and the North Altyn Ocean (Figure 9A, Lin et al., 2008; Yun et al., 2014; Li et al., 2015; Zhang L. N. et al., 2019; Wu et al., 2021). The Central and South Kunlun and Altyn-Qilian terranes collided with the Tarim block, while the Tianshuihai-Bayanhar terrane and Qaidam block approached the Tarim block (Mou et al., 2018; Zhang L. N. et al., 2019). At the same time, the South Tianshan Ocean began to subduct southward beneath the Tarim block and northward beneath the Yili and Central Tianshan terranes (Figure 9A, Zhou et al., 2004; Wang et al., 2009; Ge et al., 2012; Lin et al., 2012; Jiang et al., 2014).
During the Silurian period, the position of the three blocks in China was relatively discrete, and the North China block was uplifted into a denudation area (Figure 9B), which was the same as the Kazakhstan, Arabian and Indian plates, while the South China block developed shallow marine deposits as a whole, which was located on the eastern side of the North China block (Huang et al., 2018; Zhao et al., 2018; Zhang G. Y. et al., 2019). The Tarim block is relatively isolated, and the shallow marine deposits are mainly developed in the northwest of the Tarim block (present location, Figure 7B, Figure 9B, Lin et al., 2011; Lin et al., 2012; He et al., 2013; Zheng et al., 2014; Li et al., 2015). The Qaidam terrane between the Tarim and North China terranes also develops shallow marine deposits (Figure 9B, Zhang G. Y. et al., 2019). At the end of the Silurian, the Central and South Kunlun and Altyn-Qilian terranes completely merged with the Tarim block, forming a larger Tanan uplift, and the South Kunlun Ocean and the South Altyn Ocean continued to submerge northward, with the Tianshuihai-Bayanhar terrane and Qaidam block closer to the Tarim block (Figure 9B, Xu et al., 2011; Li et al., 2015; Wu et al., 2021). It should be noted that in the north of the Tarim block (present location) and the east of the Kazakhstan plate, the Junggar arc group has not been collaged to form the Junggar terrane (Figure 9B, Xiao et al., 2010; Carmichael et al., 2019).
5 Discussion
In the early Paleozoic, the periphery of the Tarim Basin was greatly changed, especially the appearance, expansion, and closure of the Kudi Ocean and North Altyn Ocean on the southern margin, transforming the tectonic environment of the Tarim Basin from extension to extrusion, which changed the scope and nature of the proto-type basin. To determine the peripheral background of the Tarim Basin in the early Paleozoic, the focus is on when the peripheral oceans of the Tarim Basin were opened and closed, and when the surrounding terranes collided.
5.1 The expansion and closure of the Kudi Ocean
The Kudi ophiolite exposed in the West Kunlun orogenic belt is evidence of the existence of the early Paleozoic Kudi Ocean between the Tarim Basin and the Central and South Kunlun terrane in the southwest margin of the Tarim Basin (Zhang L. N. et al., 2019).
Through the spatial relationship between ophiolite and granite in the same period, the subduction direction of the Kudi Ocean can be judged, and then the nature of the southwest peripheral basin of the Tarim Basin can be determined (Zhang L. N. et al., 2019). The residual ophiolite in the northern margin of the Saitula Group and the granite developed on SKT in the early Paleozoic (Figure 10) indicate that the Kudi Ocean subducted southward to the Central and South Kunlun terrane (Figures 8, 10), thus the passive continental margin basin develops at the southwest margin of the Tarim Basin, which is a good place for the development of hydrocarbon resources.
FIGURE 10. Location (A) and tectonic framework (B) of the West Kunlun orogenic belt and its adjacent areas (NKT: The North Kunlun terrane, which is a part of the Tarim block; SKT: The South Kunlun terrane, which can correspond to the Central and South Kunlun terrane in early Paleozoic; TSHT: The Tianshuihai terrane) (modified after Zhang L. N. et al., 2019).
The age of the gabbro in the Kudi ophiolite is concentrated between 510 and 525 Ma (Xiao et al., 2003; Zhang et al., 2004; Fang et al., 2010), indicating that the Kudi Ocean was in the stage of oceanic expansion in the early-middle Cambrian. The Tiekelike Formation of the NKT contains a mass of middle-late Ordovician granodiorite (Matte et al., 1996), showing that the NKT is the collisional orogenic belt in the middle-late Ordovician.
The zircon U-Pb ages of the granite, monazite, and metamorphic zircons, and the Ar-Ar ages for hornblende and biotite in the amphibolite-facies metamorphic rocks in SKT are concentrated in 450-440 Ma (Figure 11, Cui et al., 2006, Cui et al., 2007a, Cui et al., 2007b; Zhang X B et al., 2007; Zhang et al., 2016; Zhang et al., 2019b), which means that the collision period of the SKT is 450–440 Ma, that is, in the late Ordovician, the Central and South Kunlun terrane collage up and the Kudi Ocean closed (Figure 9A, Zhang L. N. et al., 2019).
FIGURE 11. Histogram of the zircon U-Pb ages of the Granite, Gabbro, Monazite, and metamorphic zircon and mineral (hornblende and biotite) Ar-Ar ages for amphibolite-facies metamorphic rocks in SKT (data comes from Cui et al., 2006,Cui et al., 2007a, Cui et al., 2007b; Zhang X, B et al., 2007; Zhang et al., 2016; Zhang L. N. et al., 2019).
5.2 The expansion and closure of the North Altyn Ocean
The Hongliugou-Lapaiquan ophiolite in the Northern Altyn suture zone is evidence of the existence of the North Altyn Ocean (Mou et al., 2018), which is located in the southeastern margin of the Tarim Basin and between the Tarim Basin and the Altyn-Qilian terrane in the early Paleozoic. There are two areas of concentrated ophiolites in the Altyn orogenic belt, called the Hongliugou-Lapeiquan ophiolite belt and the Apa-Mangya ophiolite belt, corresponding to the Northern Altyn suture zone and the Southern Altyn suture zone, respectively, and the Altyn-Qilian terrane is sandwiched between two suture zones (Figure 12, Sobel and Araud, 1999; Xu et al., 1999; Meng et al., 2010).
FIGURE 12. Location (A) and regional geological map (B) of Altyn Orogenic Belt and the age of the Northern Altyn ophiolite (modified after Mou et al., 2018, data comes from Che et al., 2002; Chen et al., 2017; Yang et al., 2008; Zhang et al., 2009; Yang et al., 2012).
The formation age of the Northern Altyn metamorphic rocks in Hongliugou is concentrated in the Middle-late Cambrian (Mou et al., 2018), indicating that the North Altyn Ocean began to subduct in the Middle-late Cambrian, and the age of the Northern Altyn ophiolite is concentrated in 524–449 Ma (Figure 12, Che et al., 2002; Chen et al., 2015; Yang et al., 2008; Zhang et al., 2009; Yang et al., 2012), indicating that the closure of the North Altyn Ocean should not be earlier than 449 Ma. In addition, in Hongliugou and other places, there are granites formed in the subduction environment in the late Cambrian-late Ordovician (500–443 Ma) (Chen et al., 2003; Kang et al., 2011) and granites representing syn-collision and post-collision setting in the Ordovician-late Silurian (474–419 Ma) (Wu et al., 2005, 2007; Yang et al., 2012).
Based on the geochemical study of the intermediate-acid volcanic rocks in the Altyn orogenic belt, it is found that the granites, from south to north, have the characteristic of the transition from I-type granite to S-type granite, indicating that the North Altyn Ocean subducted to the Altyn-Qilian terrane in the early Paleozoic (Figure 8, Li et al., 2013).
5.3 Two-direction subduction of the South Tianshan Ocean
At the beginning of the early Paleozoic, the Tarim block was separated from the Rodinia supercontinent. The continental rift basalts were developed in the Lower Cambrian of the Kuruketage, Keping, and South Tianshan areas (Jia, 1997; Li et al., 2006), representing the extensional movement on the northern margin of the Tarim block in the Cambrian and the emergence of the South Tianshan Ocean between the Central Tianshan terranes and the Tarim block. Until the early Carboniferous period, there were still new oceanic crusts formed in the South Tianshan Ocean (Jiang et al., 2014).
According to the traditional view, the northward subduction of the South Tianshan Ocean lasted from the late Ordovician to the late Carboniferous, while the northern margin of the Tarim Basin was always a passive continental margin environment, thus continuously developing thick layers of Paleozoic sediments (Zhou et al., 2004; He et al., 2007; Li et al., 2010; Wang et al., 2011). However, in recent years, several medium-acidic intrusive rocks have been discovered near the northern margin of the Tarim Basin, and the U-Pb zircon ages of these medium-acidic intrusive rocks are concentrated in the late Ordovician-early Silurian, indicating the southward subduction of the South Tianshan Ocean at the same time (Figure 9A, Wang et al., 2009; Ge et al., 2012; Lin et al., 2012; Jiang et al., 2014). In other words, the northern margin of the Tarim Basin has changed from passive continental margin to active continental margin at the end of the Ordovician period (Figure 9A).
6 Conclusion
(1) Due to the influence of the Pamir Salient, the shortening of the Tarim Basin gradually decreases from west to east, and the Cenozoic shortening rate accounts for the largest proportion of the total shortening rate in the western margin of the Tarim Basin. The shortening amount of the Tarim Basin is mainly reflected in the margin of the Tarim Basin, and the impact on the interior of the Tarim Basin can be ignored.
(2) In the Cambrian, the Tarim Basin was mainly controlled by the extensional tectonic environment, with the sedimentary framework of “carbonate platform in the west, deep-water basin in the east”. During the middle-late Ordovician, the subduction of the Kudi Ocean and the North Altyn Ocean led to the transformation of the tectonic environment from extension to compression in the southern margin of the Tarim Basin, thus the uplift-depression pattern of the Tarim Basin changed from east-west differentiation to north-south differentiation.
(3) The North Altyn Ocean and the Kudi Ocean began to subduct southward beneath the Central and South Kunlun and Altyn-Qilian terranes in the middle Cambrian. Until the end of the Ordovician, under the influence of the middle Caledonian movement, the two oceans closed, and the Central and South Kunlun and Altyn-Qilian terranes collided with the Tarim block, which greatly changed the uplift-depression pattern, basin properties, and sedimentary facies distribution of the Tarim Basin.
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Author contributions
ZZ did most of the job in this article, including literature review, balanced cross-section recovery, manuscript writing, drawing of maps and so on; SH and CL generously offered the main data used in this article, HC, JX, XL, and LW contributed to the reconstruction of early Paleozoic proto-type Tarim Basin; HZ helped a lot in reconstructing global plates distribution.
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SH and CL were employed by Tarim Oilfield Company.
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Keywords: Tarim basin, early paleozoic, proto-type basin, tectono-paleogeography, evolution
Citation: Zhong Z, Xia J, Huang S, Luo C, Chang H, Li X, Wei L and Zhang H (2023) Reconstruction of proto-type basin and tectono-paleogeography of Tarim block in early Paleozoic. Front. Earth Sci. 11:1101360. doi: 10.3389/feart.2023.1101360
Received: 17 November 2022; Accepted: 23 January 2023;
Published: 03 February 2023.
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