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Major thrust sheet in the Daqing Shan Mountains Inner Mongolia, China

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Small thrust faults in the Daqing Shan that were previously mapped as separate structures belong to a single Mesozoic thrust, herein named the Daqing Shan thrust. It extends more than 155 km along the northern margin of the Daqing Shan, obliquely cutting the Daqing Shan along the western flank of the Jinluandian peak to the southeast and taking its way to Chayouzhongqi to the east. Kinematic markers indicate tectonic transport of the thrust sheet to the NNW. Minimum displacement, based on the observable outcrops, is 22 km, and the inferred thrusting distance may be larger than 35 km. The thrust sheet covers the whole eastern area of the Daqing Shan. The thrust truncates the E-W trending, somewhat older South-directed Panyanshan thrust and, therefore, the two faults are not as a result of counter thrusting. Such major intraplate tectonic deformation that occurred in the Inner Mongolia Axis or the Yin Shan latitudinal tectonic belt during late Jurassic time calls for deep thought on its tectonic significance in dynamics. It is most likely that the Daqing Shan thrust represents major intraplate shortening during Jurassic-Cretaceous closure of the Mongolo-Okhotsk ocean about 1000 krn away to the north.

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  1. Department of Geology, Peking University, 100871, Beijing, China

    Yadong Zheng & Yonggang Hua

  2. Department of Geosciences, University of Southern California, 90089, California, Los Angeles, USA

    G. A. Davis, Cong Wang & B. J. Darby

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Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of Chlna (Grant No. 49070135) and by the Natlonal Science Foundation of the Unlted States (Grant No.EAR-9627909).

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Zheng, Y., Davis, G.A., Wang, C. et al. Major thrust sheet in the Daqing Shan Mountains Inner Mongolia, China. Sci. China Ser. D-Earth Sci. 41, 553–560 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02877747

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