关键词: 地壳运动, 第四纪, 时程

Abstract: From the time series of neotectonic movement of the Qaidam Basin, the main neotectonic events of the Yellow River valley in Lanzhou,the main active stages of the Altun fault zone and time series of some faults activity throughout the country, this paper discusses the time and process of Quaternary crustal movement of the Chinese continent once again and gives the following conclusions:(1) The characteristics of the time and process of Quaternary crustal movement of the Chinese continent not only occur in the time series of the volcanic activity of the Chinese continent,uplifting of the Qinghai Tibet Plateau, deformation of the Loess Plateau and faulting in the Three Gorges area of the Yangtze River and it’s adjacent areas during the Quaternary, but also exist in the time series of neotectonic movement of the Qaidam Basin,in the main neotctonic events of the Yellow River valley in Lanzhou, in the main active stages of the Altun fault zone and Quaternary activity of some faults throughout the country. (2) Although source materials are obtained from different regions, and they represent different crustal movement forms, their time series of activity are mainly consistent. (3) The Quaternary crustal movement of the Chinese continent are marked by an obvious rime span characteristic, Since the Early Pleistocene, there have been four times of tectonic movement(the initial Early Pleistocene, the middle Early Pleistocene, Middle Pleistocene and Holocene), of which the Middle Pleistocene tectonic movement is the strongest.

Key words: Crustal movement, Quaternary, Time and process