Limited Effect of the Pearl River on the Pearl River Mouth Basin Before the Early Miocene

IF 2.8 2区 地球科学 Q2 GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Basin Research Pub Date : 2025-06-18 DOI:10.1111/bre.70045
Yichao Li, Chenglin Gong, Christophe Colin, Jocelyn Barbarand, Dongwei Li, Daoyao Ge
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The Pearl River has received particular attention with respect to its links to the growth of the Tibetan Plateau and associated landscape evolution. However, controversy still surrounds the issues of when the present-day Pearl River became established, and how landscape deformation may have triggered the formation of the Pearl River. In this study, new and published zircon U–Pb ages from the late Oligocene Pearl River Mouth Basin (PRMB) and potential source areas are used to conduct a systematic provenance analysis with a view to reconstructing the drainage pattern in the South China Block. The results suggest that the PRMB was fed by multiple major sources during the late Oligocene, exhibiting significant spatial provenance variability. The paleo-Pearl River had a limited effect on the northern and southern PRMB during the late Oligocene, and there was an overlooked Yunkai Massif source which made a significant contribution to the western and southern PRMB. We infer that, compared to the early Miocene or the present day, a paleo-Nanduhe River with a larger catchment area flowed through the Yunkai Massif into the PRMB in the late Oligocene, and the paleo-Pearl River only drained the less extensive Cathaysia Block during this time. In the early Miocene, the westward expansion of the paleo-Pearl River and the capture of the upstream part of the paleo-Nanduhe River by the paleo-Pearl River, which are attributed to the growth of the Tibetan Plateau and the exhumation of the Yunkai Massif, respectively, resulted in the present-day Pearl River configuration with its dominant impact on the PRMB.

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早中新世以前珠江对珠江口盆地的有限影响
珠江因其与青藏高原的发展和相关景观演变的联系而受到特别关注。然而,现今珠江是何时形成的,以及景观变形是如何引发珠江形成的,这些问题仍然存在争议。本文利用珠江口盆地晚渐新世及潜在源区的锆石U-Pb年龄和新发现的锆石U-Pb年龄进行了系统的物源分析,以期重建华南地块的水系格局。结果表明,晚渐新世PRMB有多个主要物源,物源空间变异性明显。晚渐新世,古珠江对北、南缘的影响有限,而被忽视的云凯地块源区对西、南缘的贡献较大。与早中新世或现在相比,晚渐新世有一条集水面积更大的古南都河流经云开地块进入PRMB,而古珠江仅在此期间流入面积较小的华夏地块。中新世早期,青藏高原的生长和云开地块的发掘,分别导致古珠江向西扩张,古南都河上游被古珠江占领,形成了今天的珠江格局,并对珠江三角洲产生了主导作用。
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Basin Research
Basin Research 地学-地球科学综合
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7.00
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9.40%
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88
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>12 weeks
期刊介绍: Basin Research is an international journal which aims to publish original, high impact research papers on sedimentary basin systems. We view integrated, interdisciplinary research as being essential for the advancement of the subject area; therefore, we do not seek manuscripts focused purely on sedimentology, structural geology, or geophysics that have a natural home in specialist journals. Rather, we seek manuscripts that treat sedimentary basins as multi-component systems that require a multi-faceted approach to advance our understanding of their development. During deposition and subsidence we are concerned with large-scale geodynamic processes, heat flow, fluid flow, strain distribution, seismic and sequence stratigraphy, modelling, burial and inversion histories. In addition, we view the development of the source area, in terms of drainage networks, climate, erosion, denudation and sediment routing systems as vital to sedimentary basin systems. The underpinning requirement is that a contribution should be of interest to earth scientists of more than one discipline.
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