DIKTYOGENESE AND BASINS IN CHINA CONTINENT DURING THE MESOZOIC-CENOZOIC

The Chinese continent was compressed from three directions after the Indosinian orogeny,with 3 periods of diktyogenese movements.The first diktyogenese period could be divided 2 stages.Due to the closing of the Palaeo-Tethys,the foredeeps which were related to squeeezing were developed in the stage 1(T₃—J₂)in West China.As a result of the closing of the Nujiang Ocean,the squeezing foredeeps were continuously developed in the stage 2(J₃—K₁).The fault basins were developed in NE China and the former foredeeps were reformed or small pull apart basins were arranged in rows in South China,owing to Izanagi Plate subduction and collision.