Paleo-uplift forced regional sedimentary evolution: A case study of the Late Triassic in the southeastern Sichuan Basin, South China

Abstract

The sedimentary environment of the Upper Triassic in the southeastern Sichuan Basin is obviously controlled by Luzhou paleo-uplift (LPU). However, the influence of paleo-uplift on the sedimentary patterns of the initial stages of this period in the southeastern Sichuan Basin has not yet been clear, which has plagued oil and gas exploration and development. This study shows that there is a marine sedimentary sequence, which is considered to be the first member of Xujiahe Formation (T₃X¹) in the southeastern Sichuan Basin. The development of LPU resulted in the sedimentary differences between the eastern and western Sichuan Basin recording T₃X¹ and controlled the regional sedimentary pattern. The western part is dominated by marine sediments, but the eastern paleo-uplift area is dominated by continental sedimentation in the early stage of T₃X¹, and it begins to transform into a marine sedimentary environment consistent with the whole basin in the late stage of the period recorded by the Xujiahe Formation. The evidences are as follows: (1) time series: based on the cyclostratigraphy analysis of Xindianzi section and Well D2, in the southeastern Sichuan Basin, the period of sedimentation of the Xujiahe Formation is about 5.9 Ma, which is basically consistent with the Qilixia section, eastern Sichuan basin, where the Xujiahe Formation is widely considered to be relatively complete; (2) distribution and evolution of palaeobiology: based on analysis of abundance evolution of major spore-pollen, many land plant fossils are preserved in the lower part of T₃X¹, indicates the sedimentary environment of continental facies. In the upper part of T₃X¹, the fossil of terrestrial plants decreased, while the fossil of marine and tidal environment appeared, this means that it was affected by the sea water in the late stages of T₃X¹; (3) geochemistry: calculate the salinity of water from element indicates that the uplift area is continental sedimentary environment in the early stage of T₃X¹, while the central and western areas of the basin are marine sedimentary environment. Until the late stage of T₃X¹, the southeast of the basin gradually turns into marine sedimentary environment, consisting with the whole basin; (4) types of kerogen: type Ⅲ kerogen representing continental facies was developed in the early stage of T₃X¹ in the uplift area, and type Ⅱ kerogen, representing marine facies, was developed in the late stage; while type Ⅱ kerogen was developed in the central and western regions of the basin as a whole in T₃X¹. This study is of great significance for understanding of both stratigraphic division and sedimentary evolution providing theoretical support for the exploration and development of oil and gas.

Keywords

Luzhou paleo-uplift / Late Triassic / Cyclostratigraphy / Palynology / Sedimentary environment

CRediT authorship contribution statement

Fangyu He: Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing -original draft, Funding acquisition. Qingsong Cheng: Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing -review & editing. Dongtao Zhang: Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision. Yubing Ji: Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing -review & editing. Ziying Wang: Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization. Tenghui Lu: Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing -original draft.

Declaration of competing interest

All authors disclosed no relevant relationships.

Acknowledgements

We acknowledge Tingshan Zhang, Xi Zhang, Jian-Li Zeng, Hao Huang and Shi-Xin Li for field and laboratory assistance. This work is financially supported by science and technology project of PetroChina Zhejiang Oilfield Company (grant numbers: zjyt-2021-kj-008).

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