Abstract:

Hailar basin is a Meso-Cenozoic basin which superimposed on the Inner Mongolia-Greater Hinggan Mountain Paleozoic collision orogenic belt. Wuerxun sag which is a second-order structural unit in the middle part of Hailar basin, has been experienced 3 times extension and 2 times compression since the Early Cretaceous. The stratigraphic thickness and migration of subsidence centers in Wuerxun sag are mainly controlled by syngenetic fault and fault-related fold. On the extension period, when a half-graben formed on the hanging wall of the listric normal fault, one or more subsidence centers which located in hanging wall of the fault and near the fault formed at the part of the fault that the stretching amount is lager than the other part; When the multiple independent half-grabens formed on the hanging wall of the listric normal faults, every half-graben has its own subsidence center, and the intersection of different direction faults is often the subsidence center of the fault depression. With the increase of stretch amount, the subsidence center of the fault depression constantly migrated to the opposite direction of the slip direction of the control subsidence fault, and the scale of the basin gradually increased. On the first compression period, the early NS trending control subsidence fault F₁ reversed, the hanging wall near the fault occurred uplift, and the part away from the fault, as the front limb of a large fault-propagation fold anticline, also occurred rotary uplift. Wuerxun sag became the front syncline of a large NS trending fault-propagation fold anticline, the stratigraphic thickness is very thin near the fault and away from the fault, the stratigraphic thickness gradually increases to the front syncline of the large fault-propagation fold anticline, and the subsidence center migrates to the low-lying areas of the syncline. On the second compression period, the early NS trending control subsidence fault F₂ reversed, a large-scale NS trending fault propagation fold anticline or pop up formed in the middle part of Wuerxun sag. The top of the anticline or pop up were eroded, and the subsidence centers located in the low-lying area of the front and rear synclines.

Key words: extension, compression, structural deformation, stratigraphic thickness, subsidence center, Wuerxun sag, Hailar basin