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The multi-stage tectonism of compression and extension occurred in the southern part of the Lower Yangtze region in the Mesozoic, which is one of the important factors restricting the breakthrough of oil and gas exploration in this area. This paper aims to reveal the influence of Mesozoic tectonisim on oil and gas preservation in the Lower Yangtze area. Based on the seismic profile interpretation data, field outcrop survey, regional tectonic evolution history analysis and the drilling core data and oil-gas display of the Well Wanjingdi-1, we comprehensively discussed the favorable structural preservation conditions in the southern part of the Lower Yangtze region. The results of seismic interpretation profile and surface survey show that the southern part of the lower Yangtze River has experienced two important tectonic processes since the Late Triassic. The first stage is fold deformation, thrust fault and uplift erosion caused by Indosinian compression, and the second stage is extension since the Late Cretaceous, resulting in the formation of fault basin and normal fault activity. Shale gas display was obtained from the Permian shale in the Well Wanjingdi-1, and light oil was found in the drilling of the Lower Triassic Yinkeng Formation, indicating that the southern Lower Yangtze region has good enrichment conditions and resource potential, which points out a new direction for oil and gas exploration in the region. The analysis of structural preservation conditions shows that the Well Wanjingdi-1 is located in the syncline of the fold-depression belt. The amount of uplift and denudation was small in the Indosinian period. Since the late Cretaceous, the depression has a small amplitude of extension and has good sealing and reservoir forming conditions. It is a favorable structural position for oil and gas preservation in this region. Based on the comprehensive analysis of regional structure and sedimentary basin evolution, it is considered that in the southern Lower Yangtze region, the syncline structural belt in the southern margin of the basin with small erosion amount of Triassic strata or the central zone of fault basin overlying thick Cretaceous-Cenozoic strata should be taken as the key target to search for favorable oil and gas zones.

The Mesozoic to Cenozoic mountain uplift, exhumation, and deformation of the SW Tianshan Mountains (Kyrgyzstan and Northwest China) offer an important window to understand the intra-continental rejuvenation mechanism of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB), as response to the far-field effects of the India-Asia collision. This article presents new observation and data for the planation surface and sedimentation and deformation features of the regional intermountain basins to rebuild the orogenic history in Mesozoic to Cenozoic. Three planation surfaces were recognized by field observation, showing that the mountain may have experienced lengthy erosion since the end Cretaceous, and a continuous planation surface may have formed at the Eocene to Oligocene. The filling sequences and deformation character revealed that the orogenic disintegrate and intermountain basin formation likely began in the end of Oligocene. Subsequently, the uniform planation surface in Western Tianshan may have begun to disintegrate, leading to the basin-and-range landform formation. Folds and nappes in the Cenozoic basins, large-scale thrusting of Palaeozoic rocks over Cenozoic sediments at the basin margin associated with the rapid mountain uplift may have occurred at the end of Early Pleistocene, suggesting a tectonic inversion. The Mesozoic-Cenozoic Tianshan uplift and deformation were likely induced by the collision/accretion along the southern margin of Eurasia. Both the northward propagation of the Parmir syntaxis to the SW Tianshan and the oblique dextral faulting of the Talas-Fergana fault have likely played an important role on the formation and deformation of the Cenozoic basins in the SW Tianshan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Atebayue Sb deposit is hosted in the Silurian clastics in the South Tianshan Orogen in Kyrgyzstan. The Sb ores appear as veins/veinlets and disseminations, with stibnite being the main ore mineral. Gangue minerals comprise quartz, calcite, and clay minerals. The quartz at Atebayue only contains aqueous fluid inclusions with low homogenization temperature (215–336 °C) and salinity (3.4–6.9 wt.% NaCl equiv.), supporting an epizonogenic hydrothermal origin. The minimum trapping pressures estimated from the NaCl─H2O inclusions are 9–14 MPa, suggesting that the Sb mineralization mainly occurred at a depth of 0.9–1.4 km. Sulphur isotopes (δ34S = −0.4 to 6.2‰) suggest that the host rocks within the Silurian system to be a significant source of ore metals. The ores contain average 206Pb/204Pb, 207Pb/204Pb, and 208Pb/204Pb values of 18.112, 15.547, and 38.064, respectively, and 2‐stage model ages of 337–381 Ma, indicating the ores were likely sourced from the Paleozoic strata. Integrating the data obtained from the studies including ore geology, fluid inclusion, and S─Pb isotope geochemistry, we conclude that that the Atebayue Sb deposit is best classified as epizonogenic type formed by the Tarim–Kazakhstan continent–continent collision. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]