Abstract:The corresponding construction and transformation features remain in the shallow crust deposition and tectonic deformation during the destruction progress of North China Craton (NCC). On the basis of previous researches and the features of stratigraphic distribution, sedimentary and tectonic deformation, which are revealed by well drill, seismic profile and outcrop data. This paper discusses the response relationship between sedimentary basin prototype of the NCC and the early tectonic deformation of Craton destruction. During Late Triassic, the residual formation was in the characteristic of banded distribution: (1) the Upper Triassic Yanchang Formation develops well in the Ordos basin, the center of the NCC, and it extended eastward to central Shanxi and western Henan area; (2) the Upper Triassic Xingshikou Formation (and the contemporaneous Laohugou Formation and Heishanyao Formations) on the northern margin of the craton distributed sporadically along the line of western Liaoning—western Beijing—northern Hebei; (3) on southern margin of the craton, the Upper Triassic developed in the northern Qinling area, along the line of southern Henan—Southern Shaanxi. Both the Upper Triassic in the northern and southern margins of the craton had been involved into contemporaneous and deuteric tectonic deformation, most of the formations had been clamped by thrust faults and produced in the shape of fragment. From the perspective of tectonic deformation, Late Triassic largescale S—N trending compressional structures had been discovered on both margins of the NCC, and they had formed “Hedge patterns”, which was in consistent with the existed E—W structure lines in intracraton. Syngenetic deposition recorded the process of regional tectonic deformation and/or the information of uplift and denudation controlled by deformation or other causes. In the intracraton, the western Ordos area was stable in tectonics, had weak deformation, and more complete residual strata; the eastern area uplifted intensely, most of the Upper Triassic strata is absent; and the central part, between eastern and western area, is a sedimentary—tectonic “buffering” transition region. From the perspective of prototype basin reconstruction, the NCC in Late Triassic is an intracontinental basin with foreland basins on both northern and southern margins. The prototype of the central NCC is an inheritance intracraton basin which overlays on the Lower—Middle Triassic basin. The intracontinental foreland system on the northern margin of the NCC consists of the Yinshan—Yanshan wedgetop belt, Zhangjiakou—Chengde foredeep, Qingshuihe—Shanhaiguan forebulge and western Beijing—Liujiang backbulge depozones; and the intracontinental foreland system on the southern margin consists of the northern Qinling wedgetop belt, Pingliang—Nanzhao foredeep, Huanxian—Huoqiu forebulge and Tongchuan—Jiyuan backbulge depozones. Of them, the Tongchuan—Jiyuan and western Beijing—Liujiang backbulge depozones can also be allocated into the intracraton basins.