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The Relationship between the Distribution of Thick Coal Belts and the Late Carboniferous‐Early Early Permian Marine Transgression—Regression in the North China Platform
Author(s) -
Rong ZHONG,
Zeming FU
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
acta geologica sinica ‐ english edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.444
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1755-6724
pISSN - 1000-9515
DOI - 10.1111/j.1755-6724.1998.tb00739.x
Subject(s) - marine transgression , carboniferous , permian , geology , paleontology , transgressive , sedimentary depositional environment , period (music) , coal measures , margin (machine learning) , china , geography , archaeology , structural basin , physics , acoustics , machine learning , computer science
Four great second‐order transgressions occurred during the Late Carboniferous to early Early Permian and they came from both the eastern and western sea areas in the North China Platform. As time went on, depocentres, depositional extent, transgression directions, coastline position and distribution of minable coal seams were changing continuously. The third great second‐order transgression occurring at the beginning of the early Early Permian marks the maximum transgression period and before its arrival, i.e. at the close of the late Late Carboniferous, there was the super‐regional coal‐forming environment. During the second, third and fourth transgressions, the northern North China Platform was all along situated on the transgressive margin of the epicontinental sea and became the major distribution area of thick coal belts because it maintained a coal‐forming environment for a long period of time from the close of the late Late Carboniferous to the Early Permian.