Title: STUDIES OF THE TECTONIC UPLIFT AT THE CENOZOIC ERA AND THE REGIONALLY ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS IN THE QINLING OROGENIC BELT
Abstract: Comprehensive studies on sedimentation, tectonics, geomorphology and data from geophysics have indicated that the Cenozoic tectonic uplift of the Qinling orogenic belt appearedswiftly at the Late Tertiary Miocene epoch, based on the tectonic uplift which happened atthe Late Cretaceous period of the Mesozoic era. And the Earlier period of the Early Pleistocene epoch was the most intense period of the neotectonism movement. The movement ofCenozoic tectonic uplift of the Qinling orogenic belt can be recognized in four types of ways,including horst, tilting, oscillation and basculating. The major cause and dynamic mechanism, inducing this neotectonic uplift, resulted from joint actions of intracontinental underthrust of the North China Land Mass from north to south and the Yangtze Land Mass fromsouth to north, and uplift of the deep-seated rheosphere of the Qinling Land Mass.
Publication Year: 1996
Publication Date: 1996-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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