Abstract: The Member 6 of Triassic Yanchang Formation is one of the key contributors to the oil reserves and crude oil production in Ordos Basin, and it is also the earliest oil production reservoir in the continental areas of China. This study aims at revealing the formation mechanism and distribution pattern of tight oil in the Member 6 of Yanchang Formation. Based on analyzing the data of drilling, mud logging, well logging, and core samples from 1 505 prospecting wells in southeastern Ordos Basin, the paper systematically studies the formation mechanism and enrichment laws of tight oil in the Member 6 of Yanchang Formation, and presents three palaeo-geomorphic units, including steep and gentle paleoslopes, and paleolake bottoms, as well as more than ten types of secondary palaeo-geomorphic units. Based on the comprehensive analysis of palaeo-geomorphology and hydrocarbon accumulation conditions, in combination with the physical simulation experiments of crude oil migration and accumulation, four typical accumulation assemblages have been identified, i.e., the dual-source hydrocarbon supply with the medium to poor reservoirs at the end of distributary channels on gentle slopes, the single-source hydrocarbon supply with the poor to medium reservoirs under scattered gravity flow at the lake bottom, the dual-source hydrocarbon supply with the medium to good reservoir assemblages under gravity flow at the bottom of steep slopes, and the single-source hydrocarbon supply with the damaged and adjusted good to medium reservoirs on steep slopes. The genesis mechanism and accumulation process of tight oil reservoirs in delta front and gravity flow are revealed. Then it is clarified that the scale of high-quality reservoirs in near-source effective traps is the key to the enrichment and high yield of tight oil. Further, the paper proposes the differential distribution and accumulation mode of tight oil be controlled by the heterogeneous source-reservoir-cap assemblages under diverse paleogeomorphology setting, improves the hydrocarbon exploration strategies applied in typical oilfields, and puts forwards the unconventional oil exploration strategies such as the expanding exploration along the bottom of steep slopes, three-dimensional exploration at the lake bottom, detailed exploration of multiple wells in gentle slopes, and effective traps exploration in the structurally adjusted areas of steep slopes. Finally, the research focuses on exploring the four basic geological conditions for the formation of large-scale continental tight oil fields, i.e., tectonic action, provenance, paleo-geomorphic units, and preservation condition. In the Member 6 of Yanchang Formation in southeastern Ordos Basin, the cumulative geological reserves of tight oil amount to 1.885 522×10⁸t, the cumulative crude oil production in the past three years is 16.72×10⁴t, and the first 100 million-ton-level integrated tight oil field, i.e., Huangling oilfield, has been discovered and established. It is expected that the research results have a positive impact on the development of geological theories in terms of unconventional petroleum accumulation, as well as the exploration and development practices in the terrestrial lacustrine basin of China.