Affiliation:
1. School of Geology, Kazakh-British Technical University, Almaty 050000, Kazakhstan
Abstract
This article examines the geotectonic and sedimentary features of the Upper Devonian–Carboniferous–Permian deposits of the North Caspian basin, represented by deposits of marine Paleozoic-isolated carbonate platforms formed during the subsidence of the basement on the passive continental margin. The top is covered by thick salt-bearing Kungurian deposits from the end of the Early Permian epoch. The formation of carbonate platforms is associated with a major tectonic restructuring of the basin at the turn of the Caledonian and Hercynian eras, when the Paleo-Tethys Ocean was formed and isolated carbonate islands began to grow in an open marine environment. The central part of the depression experienced a long and gradual subsidence that spanned the entire Paleozoic era and the beginning of the Mesozoic era. In the south and east, from the Devonian to the Permian periods, barriers were formed in the form of island carbonate massifs that separated the North Caspian basin from the Paleo-Tethys Ocean. During the formation of the salt-bearing basin, these barriers limited water exchange and ensured a one-way influx of sea water from the open ocean. As a result, at the end of the Permian period, thicker salts accumulated; however, during the collision of the continental massifs, an invasion of many kilometers of redbeds occurred. They initially stopped salt accumulation; however, gradually, in the north of the Caspian Sea during Roadian times, the salt accumulation continued. The post-Roadian time is associated with the influx of large quantities of redbed sediments, which caused gravitational instability in the underlying salt, and salt tectonics began with the formation of domal structures.
Funder
Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Kazakh–British Technical University
Subject
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
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