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ArticlePlants (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Paleovegetation Community and Paleoclimate Succession in Middle Jurassic Coal Seams in Eastern Coalfields in Dzungaria Basin, China.

Xingli Wang, Shuo Feng, Wenfeng Wang, Qin Zhang, Jijun Tian, Changcheng Han, Meng Wang

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Xingli WangXinjiang Key Laboratory for Geodynamic Processes and Metallogenic Prognosis of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830047, China.
Shuo FengXinjiang Key Laboratory for Geodynamic Processes and Metallogenic Prognosis of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830047, China.
Wenfeng WangXinjiang Key Laboratory for Geodynamic Processes and Metallogenic Prognosis of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830047, China.
Qin ZhangXinjiang Key Laboratory for Geodynamic Processes and Metallogenic Prognosis of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830047, China.
Jijun TianSchool of Earth Resources, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China.
Changcheng HanXinjiang Key Laboratory for Geodynamic Processes and Metallogenic Prognosis of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830047, China.
Meng WangSchool of Resources and Geosciences, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China.

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The Dzungaria Basin is located north of Xinjiang and is one of the largest inland basins in China. The eastern coalfields in the Dzungaria Basin contain a large amount of coal resources, and the thickness of the coal seams is significant. Therefore, the aim of this study was to classify the paleovegetation types and develop paleoclimate succession models of the extra-thick coal seams. We conducted the sampling, separation, and extraction of spores and pollen and carried out microscopic observations in the Wucaiwan mining area of the eastern coalfields in the Dzungaria Basin. The vertical vegetation succession in the thick seam (Aalenian Stage) in the study area was divided into three zones using the CONISS clustering method. The results show that the types of spore and pollen fossils belong to twenty families and forty-five genera, including twenty-three fern, twenty gymnosperm, and two bryophyte genera. The types of paleovegetation in the study area were mainly Lycopodiaceae and Selaginellaceae herb plants, Cyatheaceae, Osmundaceae, and Polypodiaceae shrub plants, and Cycadaceae and Pinaceae coniferous broad-leaved trees. The paleoclimate changed from warm-humid to humid-semi-humid and, finally, to the semi-humid-semi-dry type, all within a tropical-subtropical climate zone. The study area was divided into four paleovegetation communities: the nearshore wetland paleovegetation community, lowland cycad and Filicinae plant community, slope broad-leaved and coniferous plant mixed community, and highland coniferous tree community. This indicates that there was a climate warming event during the Middle Jurassic, which led to a large-scale lake transgression and regression in the basin. This resulted in the transfer of the coal-accumulating center from the west and southwest to the central part of the eastern coalfields in the Dzungaria Basin.

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