祁连运动是李康、钟富道、李荫槐(1962)在《祁连山地质志》论述祁连山大地构造特征时首先命名的。其后,尹赞勋等(1978)、魏春海等(1978)均在文章中予以引用。他们的看法基本一致,都认为祁连运动发生的时代为志留纪末期。具体指早古生代的祁连海槽回返成山,致使古祁国连麓普遍形盛的一套磨拉石建造——“老君山砾岩”,角度不整合 Qilian Movement is Li Kang, Zhong Fu Road, Li Yin Huai (1962) in the “Qilian Mountains Geological” Qilian Mountains on the tectonic features first named. Later, Yin Zanxun et al. (1978) and Wei Chunhai et al. (1978) all cited them in the article. Their views are basically the same, all believing that the time of the Qilian movement was the end of Silurian. Specifically refers to the early Paleozoic Qilian trough back into the mountains, resulting in the formation of the ancient Qi Qilian popular Shalv set molasse - “Laojunshan conglomerate”, the angle of unconformity