Abstract
Diapiric traps, including diapirs of salt and mud or igneous intrusives, have recently been found in many places in the Cenozoic petroliferous basins in eastern China, and most of them produce oil and gas. During the Eocene-early Oligocene, salt-lake basins evolved extensively. Plastic source materials for diapirism were deposited in the basins in great thickness. We have found that the diapiric traps of salt and mud in eastern China are unpierced or slightly pierced structures. The diapiric materials are a mixture of salt, gypsum, and mudstone, but mudstone is the main component of the plastic bodies. Based on an analysis of the structural features of the diapirs and the regional tectonic setting, we believe that the diapiric traps are caused by a combination of horizont l stress due to regional tectonic movement and vertical stress due to gravitational instability. Some diabase diapirs are arranged in a series of small anticlinal traps along the regional faults in the Subei basin of Jiangsu province. Oil and gas have been found in certain of these diapirs.
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