发生于中生代—新生代之间的事件是地质历史上一次重大灾变和异常事件,因此白垩系—古近系之间的界线(K/T界线)就成为全球最重要的地质界线之一。通过对塔里木盆地西北缘乌恰地区库孜贡苏河剖面海相上白垩统—古新统地层的岩性和沉积环境变化以及地球化学特征研究,重点利用沉积物色度、有机碳含量、碳酸钙和碳、氧稳定同位素的明显异常变化,结合前人研究资料,论证并证实了该区分布于依格孜牙组和吐依洛克组之间5 cm厚的黏土层为白垩系—古近系界线(K/T界线),它是白垩纪末期全球重大突变事件的沉积产物,记录了白垩纪末—古近纪初气候和环境变化的信息。它对丰富我国白垩纪—古近纪之间的事件研究、确定塔里木盆地地层年代序列以及恢复该地区古环境都具重要意义。
The catastrophe and extinctions occurred in late Cretaceous is one of the most severe events during the geo-logical history,a thin clay boundary worldwide deposited on the earth during this period was called"K-T boundary". The nerth western Tarim Basin is an ideal experimental field preserving continuous Late Cretaceous-Paleogene marine stratum and excellent outcrops in China.Previous researchers have done a lot of work and made a series of important achievements,however,the research and discussion on the paleoenvrionment and paleoclimate from Late Cretaceous to Early Paleogene is seldom involved.In this study,Kuzigongsu section of Late Cretaceous-Paleogene strata were selected to investigate the lithology and sedimentary environment changes and geochemical characters of the Late Cretaceous-Paleogene marine stratum.The results showed that the sediment color,calcium carbonate,organic carbon content and carbon/oxygen stable isotope changed abnormally in the 5 cm thick clay layer distributed between the Yigeziya and the Tuyiluoke Formations.The three curves of L*(lightness),a*(reddness),b*(yellowness)representing the sediment color index changed slowly within Tuyiluoke Fm,but fluctuated greatly in the part of the Tuyiluoke Fm. The CaCO3 content was also divided into two parts:Lower Cretaceous Yigeziya Fm is higher(average content of 51. 53%),paleocene Tuyiluoke Fm is lower(average 19.24%),while the content between the two Formations sharply decreased(4.92%).The organic carban content maintained stably in Yigeziya Fm.(average content 0.12%),the lowest value was detected in the gray-green clay between two Formations,the content recovered to0.1%after entering the Yigeziya Fm.The curves of carbon and oxygen isotopes changed with the gray-green calcareous mudstone between the Yigeziya Fm and Tuyiluoke Fm as the turing point,δ13 C suddenly from positive value to negative,and remained negative until 3.78 m deep at the bottom of Tuyiluoke Fm,then turn positive(varying from 0.8‰to