元古代末的塔里木运动,使塔里木固结而成地台。古生代,其南北两侧分别为昆仑和天山地槽,内部则为海相地台型沉积。古生代末的华力西运动,使海水从塔里木退出,其南北地槽回返褶皱成山,并以深大断裂与盆地分界,形成盆地周边的纬向构造体系。同时,盆地内部开始发育北东—北东东和北西—北西西两组基底断裂,形成正负相间的隆起与坳陷。中生代以特提斯洋壳与欧亚陆壳挤压为代表的印支和燕山运动,在塔里木表现为除库车和塔东坳陷外,普遍缺失三叠系;构造活动以断陷升降 Tarim movement at the end of the Yuan Dynasty made the Tarim consolidated into a platform. Paleozoic, its north and south sides are respectively Kunlun and Tianshan terrane, while the interior is marine sedimentary platform. During the Late Paleozoic Variscan movement, the seawater was withdrawn from the Tarim Basin and its north-south troughs returned fold folds into mountains, dividing the deep faults into basins to form a zonal tectonic system around the basin. At the same time, the basement faults of the NE-NEW and NEW-NWZs began to develop in the basin, resulting in the uplift and depression of positive and negative phases. The Mesozoic Indosinian and Yanshan movements represented by the Tethys Oceanic crust and the Eurasian continental crust are generally depleted in Triassic except for the depot and Tadong Depression in Tarim Basin;