Sedimentary characteristics and provenance of the basal conglomerate of the Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous Jiaolai Basin, eastern China and their implications for the uplift of the Sulu Orogenic Belt

The basal conglomerates (‘Linsishan Conglomerate’, LC, herein) are exposed discontinuously along the northern part of the Sulu Orogenic Belt (SOB) and the southern part of the Jiaobei Terrane. Studying these conglomerates can offer key constrains for the formation age of the Jiaolai Basin and improve our understanding of the uplift and erosional histories of the SOB and Jiaobei Terrane, which are still in great controversy. In Huangyadi section,...