Xiangyang Xie

Texas Christian University | TCU · Department of Geological Sciences

The Paleo-Tethys experienced major geographic, tectonic, climatologic, and environmental changes during the Permian. A newly documented and complete Permian carbonate-dominated succession (> 3 km) in the Xikou section, Zhen'an, Shaanxi, central China provides a unique opportunity to record its depositional environment evolution, sea-level fluctuati...

Diagenesis varies greatly from basin to basin and has been considered as the key control of the reservoir quality of tight sandstones. In this study, we analyzed the petrographic characteristics, diagenesis, and pore types and characteristics of the Permian Lower Shihezi Formation in the Ordos Basin. Results show that most of sandstones are lithare...

Coal and organic-rich shale in the Yan’an Formation in the southwestern margin of the Ordos Basin are widely developed, which is an important fact for oil and gas exploration in China that has been widely explored for a long time. In this paper, detailed sequence division and sedimentary environment analyses of the Yan’an Formation in the Pengyang...

Early Carboniferous (Mississippian) strata across the Laurentian cratonic interior record the transition from a stable carbonate platform, supporting a broad epicontinental sea, to a series of widespread, mixed carbonate-siliciclastic successions. As the southern terminal sink, the Mississippian succession preserved on the southern Midcontinent pro...

The newly defined Carboniferous Meishan Group, along the northern margin of the Dabie orogenic belt, provides unique opportunities to document the poorly understood Paleozoic tectonic evolution of the Dabie orogenic belt and the Paleozoic convergence between the North and South China blocks. We apply sandstone petrology, geochemistry, and U-Pb detr...

Many stepped slopes are present at deep-lacustrine basin margins in China, especially in the Paleogene rift basin margins of East China. Sediment gravity-flow deposits on these stepped slopes have the potential to form excellent reservoir quality sediments that are targeted for hydrocarbon exploration, but still remain poorly understood. In this st...

Understanding the variability of depositional environment and depositional processes of the Late Permian Kuishan Member, North China Craton, is crucial for unraveling the evolution of sedimentary basin and epicontinental sea in Shandong tectonic domain. The Kuishan Member in the Eastern Block of the North China Craton, formed in association with ge...

The North Yellow Sea Basin in offshore areas of eastern China provides a unique opportunity to document the interaction between the paleo-Eurasian and circum-Pacific tectonic domains and the coupled relationship between Tanlu Fault strike-slip activity, intrabasinal tectonics and sedimentation. This study combines well data, three-dimensional (3-D)...

Laramide deformation during the Late Cretaceous through early Eocene interrupted the east‐flowing drainage systems from the Sevier hinterland and segmented the Western Interior Foreland Basin in much of western North America into a series of intermontane basins and Precambrian basement‐cored uplifts. In Wyoming, the timing of Laramide deformation a...

Distributary channels in large deltas can form a channel pattern similar to braided fluvial system or anastomosed fluvial system that have multichannel systems. Although both systems are of generally comparable platforms, their geometry, sedimentology, and facies associations may exhibit unique characteristics. Many ancient multichannel systems hav...

By using data such as lithology, thin sections, sedimentary structure, particle size, logging facies signs, mercury intrusion, porosity and permeability from 34 wells, 11 types of sedimentary microfacies were divided in this study. Upon analysis, sedimentary microfacies exert significant control on reservoirs, and high quality reservoirs are primar...

The study of source rocks is a key component in the exploration and discovery of hydrocarbon plays in the offshore petroliferous basins of China. Geochemical analyses, drilling, seismic, and microfossil data were integrated to document the formation mechanism of lacustrine source rocks contained in the Wenchang Formation in the Zhu I Depression of...

Permian carbon isotopic and clay mineralogical records were recovered from the carbonates in the Xikou section, a complete and uninterrupted Upper Carboniferous to Lower Triassic carbonate-dominated succession exposed in Zhen'an, Shaanxi Province, central China, which were used to document carbon isotopic signatures and climatic changes affecting t...

Detrital zircon U–Pb geochronology, and Hf isotope compositional data for Permian strata near Xikou, Zhen’an in the South Qinling belt help constrain the tectonic evolutionary history of the Qinling Orogenic Belt. Results show that detrital zircons recovered from three sandstone samples share similar age-probabilities, including four age groups com...

The Songliao Basin, northeastern China, is one of the few ultra-large petroleum basins in the world. Fault superposition, linkage, and stratigraphic architecture have produced a complicated basin evolutionary history. In this study, we report the boundary fault linkage and associated Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous stratigraphic record using 3D...

Early Pennsylvanian sediment dispersal across the Laurentian supercontinent reflects the growth of the Appalachian–Ouachita Orogen that was formed by its collision with Gondwana. Occupying a key position within the Laurentian foreland of the Appalachian–Ouachita Orogen, the middle Bloyd sandstone member of the Bloyd Formation (Early Pennsylvanian)...

The Delaware Basin is located near the southwestern end of the Alleghanian–Ouachita–Marathon orogenic belt. The basin is mostly filled by Permian clastic rocks of the Delaware Mountain Group with ramp- to shelf-carbonate rimming basin edges. The Delaware Mountain Group has been well-documented as a deep-water clastic reservoir unit in the prolific...

We report detrital zircon U-Pb ages in the Fort Worth Basin (southern USA) aimed at understanding sediment dispersal patterns on the southern margin of Laurentia before and during the Laurentia-Gondwana collision. The ages from two Cambrian fluvial-marginal marine sandstone and six Pennsylvanian deltaic-fluvial sandstone samples span from Archean t...

The Junggar Basin is a Late Carboniferous foreland basin in northwestern China surrounded by different mountain belts. The west Junggar Basin has a complicated tectonic history with multiple subduction and collision events that controlled sedimentation and basin development. In this study, absolute dating of igneous rocks, rock geochemistry, and U-...

The Fort Worth basin in northcentral Texas is a major shale-gas producer, yet its subsidence history and relationship to the Ouachita fold-thrust belt have not been well understood. We studied the depositional patterns of the basin during the late Paleozoic by correlating well logs and constructing structure and isopach maps. We then modeled the on...

A series of Mesozoic rift basins formed in eastern China were associated with magmatic activity and subduction along the Eurasia, Izanagi and Pacific plate margins. The impact of magmatic activity on lacustrine sequence development was documented with well-log and 3-D seismic data from the Jupiter Depression in the North Yellow Sea Basin. We identi...

Well-exposed Cretaceous to Cenozoic strata in the Barinas basin provide a unique opportunity to test the provenance of Cenozoic clastic rocks and further constrain sediment dispersal patterns in Western Venezuela. In this study, six samples were collected from a Cretaceous to Pliocene sequence in the Táchira saddle on the southern flank of the Méri...

The deep lacustrine gravity-flow deposits are widely developed in the lower Triassic Yanchang Formation, southeast Ordos Basin, central China. Three lithofacies include massive fine-grained sandstone, banded sandstone, and massive oil shale and mudstone. The massive fine-grained sandstones have sharp upper contacts, mud clasts, boxed-shaped Gamma R...

U–Pb ages of detrital zircons from the Wedington Sandstone member in northwest Arkansas provide evidence for Late Mississippian westward transcontinental sediment transport from the Appalachian foreland. The Late Mississippian Wedington Sandstone member of the Fayetteville Shale is a fine- to medium-grained quartzarenite. It separates the Fayettevi...

The Merida Andes is a NE-SW oriented mountain range in western Venezuela. Formed by an active convergent boundary interaction among the southern margin of the Caribbean plate, the Maracaibo Block, and northern South American plate. Previous geological evidence suggests that a multiphase uplift of the Merida Andes diachronically diverted a Pre-Mioce...

The Late Paleozoic Ouachita fold-and-thrust belt extends from the southern terminus of the Appalachian thrust belt in eastern Mississippi up through central Arkansas, southeastern Oklahoma, and Texas terminating in northeastern Mexico. A series of Carboniferous foreland basins were formed sequentially to the thrust front. Although it is understood...

U–Pb detrital zircon geochronology has been used to identify provenance and document sediment delivery systems during the deposition of the early Late Triassic Yanchang Formation in the south Ordos Basin. Two outcrop samples of the Yanchang Formation were collected from the southern and southwestern basin margin respectively. U–Pb detrital zircon g...

Previous on- and offshore studies have postulated that the Caribbean plate has translated hundreds of kilometers eastward during the Cenozoic along strike-slip and oblique thrust faults bounding the northern margin of the continental South America plate. Two previously proposed tectonic-sedimentary models to explain the complex linkages between pla...

Thick, Eocene to Miocene clastic sedimentary basins are widespread across on- and offshore northern South America and have been identified using seismic reflection data in offshore basins of the Leeward Antilles, the Lesser Antilles arc and forearc, and the Barbados accretionary prism. Several 3 to12-km-thick Paleogene depocenters occur in shelf to...

Two deformation belts -- the Qinling orogenic belt (QOB) to the south and the Western Liupanshan thrust belt (WLTB) to the west, including the Qilian-Qaidam terrane (QQT) -- control the evolution of the southern Ordos Basin during early Mesozoic time. U-Pb detrital zircon geochronology is used to identify provenance, reconstruct paleogeography, and...

Tectonic setting exerts first-order control on basin formation as reflected in basin subsidence history. While our approach ignores the effects of flexural loading and eustatic sea-level change, consistency of backstripped subsidence histories (i.e., with local loading effects of sediment removed) suggests consistent tectonic driving mechanisms in...