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Organic shale formation and organic carbon burial under interaction of multiple spheres of the Earth in basins in eastern China during the Eocene
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Xinping LIANG1, 3, Quanyou LIU1, Xiaoyang PENG3, Andrew Bychkov2, Qingbin XIE3, Hancheng JI3
Journal of Palaeogeography (Chinese Edition) | 2026, 28(2) : 557 - 567
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Journal of Palaeogeography (Chinese Edition) | 2026, 28(2): 557-567
• OIL AND GAS GEOLOGY •
Organic shale formation and organic carbon burial under interaction of multiple spheres of the Earth in basins in eastern China during the Eocene
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Xinping LIANG1, 3, Quanyou LIU1, Xiaoyang PENG3, Andrew Bychkov2, Qingbin XIE3, Hancheng JI3
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  • 1 Institute of Energy,Peking University/State Key Laboratory of Shale Oil and Gas Enrichment Mechanism and Efficient Development,Beijing 100871,China
  • 2 Department of Geochemistry,Geological Faculty,Lomonosov Moscow State University,Moscow 119899,Russian Federation
  • 3 School of Earth Sciences/State Key Laboratory of Petroleum Resources and Engineering, China University of Petroleum(Beijing),Beijing 102249,China
  • LIANG Xinping,born in 1987,is an assistant professor researcher at Peking University. She is engaged in research on shale oil and gas geology. E-mail: .

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LIANG Xinping,born in 1987,is an assistant professor researcher at Peking University. She is engaged in research on shale oil and gas geology. E-mail: .

Published: 2026-04-01 doi: 10.7605/gdlxb.2026.062
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The formation of organic matter reflects the integrated physical,chemical,and biological responses to key global and regional geological events occurring across the lithosphere,hydrosphere,atmosphere,and biosphere. Organic-rich shales of Paleogene-Eocene age in terrestrial lake basins of eastern China are characterized by extensive lateral distribution,high total organic carbon(TOC)content,and considerable stratigraphic thickness—making them ideal archives for investigating the controls on organic-rich shale deposition under multi-sphere interactions. This study focuses on the Middle Eocene Shahejie Formation in the Jiyang Depression(Bohai Bay Basin)and integrates geochemical proxies—including TOC and total sulfur(TS)concentrations,organic carbon isotopic composition( δ 13 C o r g),iron speciation,and pyrite sulfur isotopes( δ 34 S p y r)—with regional stratigraphic data from eastern China basins. Our findings indicate that TOC values in the Shahejie Formation range from 1 wt% to 10 wt%,with most samples exhibiting a TOC/TS ratio>2,a highly reactive iron to total iron ratio>0.38,and a pyrite iron(FePy)to FeHR ratio<0.6. These geochemical signatures suggest that organic shale accumulation was primarily driven by elevated primary productivity under warm-humid paleoclimatic conditions,further modulated by co-occurring tectono-volcanic processes—including volcanic input,hydrothermal fluid influx,and episodic marine incursions. Comparative analysis across eastern China basins reveals that widespread Middle Eocene organic carbon burial was ultimately governed by deep-Earth-driven geological events that facilitated cross-sphere exchange of mass and energy. Although volcanic,hydrothermal,and marine inputs may have introduced additional sulfate,bacterial sulfate reduction efficiently depleted the sulfate reservoir,establishing ferruginous(anoxic,non-sulfidic)bottom-water conditions conducive to the preservation of organic matter.

Eocene  /  organic-rich shale  /  interaction of multiple spheres  /  organic carbon burial  /  basins in eastern China
梁新平, 刘全有, 彭晓洋, Bychkov Andrew, 谢庆宾, 季汉成. 圈层相互作用下中国东部盆地始新世富有机质页岩形成与有机碳埋藏*. 古地理学报, 2026 , 28 (2) : 557 -567 . DOI: 10.7605/gdlxb.2026.062
Xinping LIANG, Quanyou LIU, Xiaoyang PENG, Andrew Bychkov, Qingbin XIE, Hancheng JI. Organic shale formation and organic carbon burial under interaction of multiple spheres of the Earth in basins in eastern China during the Eocene[J]. Journal of Palaeogeography (Chinese Edition), 2026 , 28 (2) : 557 -567 . DOI: 10.7605/gdlxb.2026.062
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China(42488101)
  • project of the State Key Laboratory of Petroleum Resources and Engineering(PRE/open-2402)
Year 2026 volume 28 Issue 2
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doi: 10.7605/gdlxb.2026.062
  • Receive Date:2025-07-17
  • Online Date:2026-09-24
  • Published:2026-04-01
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  • Received:2025-07-17
  • Revised:2025-10-18
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National Natural Science Foundation of China(42488101)
project of the State Key Laboratory of Petroleum Resources and Engineering(PRE/open-2402)
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    1 Institute of Energy,Peking University/State Key Laboratory of Shale Oil and Gas Enrichment Mechanism and Efficient Development,Beijing 100871,China
    2 Department of Geochemistry,Geological Faculty,Lomonosov Moscow State University,Moscow 119899,Russian Federation
    3 School of Earth Sciences/State Key Laboratory of Petroleum Resources and Engineering, China University of Petroleum(Beijing),Beijing 102249,China
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