- 责任者：Zhu Zhixin (University of Xinjiang ; Urumqi 830000 ; China) ; Dong Lianhui
- 刊名：Geological Bulletin of China
- 出版年：2013
- 卷期：32(2/3)
- 关键词：构造单元 ; tectonic units ; 构造演化 ; structural evolution ; 天山 ; Tianshan Mountains
- 页码：p.297-306
- 图表：illus., 44 refs.
- 分类号：0300
- issnNo：ISSN1671-2552
- isbnNo：CN11-4648/P
Located in the southern part of Central Asia, the West Tianshan organic belt lies at the juncture between the Kazakhstan- Junggar ancient plate and the Tarim ancient plate and is composed of Paleozoic epicontinental rock series, oceanic crust relicts and Precambrian microlandmass. Its structural evolution process is a miniature of the evolution of the Northern Xinjiang paleo-Asiatic Ocea. It experienced the formation of continental nucleus in Archean-early Proterozoic period, the evolution of Ancient Tianshan oceanic basin in late Proterozoic period, and the generation of a unified Xinjiang part of Gondwana in late Proterozoic period. In late Proterozoic period, Tianshan region, as a part of the paleo-Asiatic Ocean, began cracking; in Cambrian period this region entered the peak stage of expansion; in Ordovician-Carboniferous period, the ancient subduction zone was formed, and the ancient ocean basin was continually contracted; in Late Carboniferous period, the Tianshan ancient ocean basin was closed, with the formation of an unified continental crust; in Middle Cenozoic period, the region entered into the intracontinental evolution stage.