Central China orogenic belt and amalgamation of East Asian continents

Y Dong, S Sun, M Santosh, J Zhao, J Sun, D He… - Gondwana …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Central China Orogenic Belt (CCOB) comprises, from the east to the west, the
Tongbai-Dabie, Qinling, Qilian and Kunlun Orogens, and preserves abundant and important …

Geological reconstructions of the East Asian blocks: From the breakup of Rodinia to the assembly of Pangea

G Zhao, Y Wang, B Huang, Y Dong, S Li, G Zhang… - Earth-Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Pangea is the youngest supercontinent in Earth's history and its main body formed by
assembly of Gondwana and Laurasia about 300–250 Ma ago. As supported by voluminous …

Closure of the Proto-Tethys Ocean and Early Paleozoic amalgamation of microcontinental blocks in East Asia

S Li, S Zhao, X Liu, H Cao, S Yu, X Li, I Somerville… - Earth-Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
As a complex paleo-ocean located between the Tarim-North China and the
Sibumasu/Baoshan blocks, the Proto-Tethys Ocean was opened from the rifting of the …

Mesozoic tectono-magmatic response in the East Asian ocean-continent connection zone to subduction of the Paleo-Pacific Plate

S Li, Y Suo, X Li, J Zhou, M Santosh, P Wang… - Earth-Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Mesozoic Western Pacific subduction system significantly impacted the North
China and South China blocks along the East Asian continental margin and influenced the …

Tectonic evolution of a composite collision orogen: an overview on the Qinling–Tongbai–Hong'an–Dabie–Sulu orogenic belt in central China

YB Wu, YF Zheng - Gondwana Research, 2013 - Elsevier
The formation of collisional orogens is a prominent feature in convergent plate margins. It is
generally a complex process involving multistage tectonism of compression and extension …

Tectonic evolution, superimposed orogeny, and composite metallogenic system in China

J Deng, Q Wang, G Li - Gondwana Research, 2017 - Elsevier
Continental China is a mosaic of numerous tectonic blocks, which amalgamated from
Neoarchean to Cenozoic broadly coeval with the cycles of global supercontinents such as …

Triassic southeastward subduction of North China Block to South China Block: Insights from new geological, geophysical and geochemical data

S Li, B Jahn, S Zhao, L Dai, X Li, Y Suo, L Guo… - Earth-Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
Lithospheric subduction prior to the assembly of the South China and North China blocks is
traditionally considered to be directed northward. However, some critical geological and …

Geochemical zonation across a Neoproterozoic orogenic belt: Isotopic evidence from granitoids and metasedimentary rocks of the Jiangnan orogen, China

XL Wang, JC Zhou, WL Griffin, G Zhao, JH Yu… - Precambrian …, 2014 - Elsevier
In order to understand how Late Mesoproterozoic to Early Neoproterozoic orogenic belts
evolved during the assembly and rifting of the supercontinent Rodinia, we have carried out …

Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous continental convergence and intracontinental orogenesis in East Asia: A synthesis of the Yanshan Revolution

S Dong, Y Zhang, F Zhang, J Cui, X Chen… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2015 - Elsevier
The basic tectonic framework of continental East Asia was produced by a series of nearly
contemporaneous orogenic events in the late Middle Jurassic to Early Cretaceous …

Tectonic evolution of the Qinling orogenic belt, Central China: new evidence from geochemical, zircon U–Pb geochronology and Hf isotopes

Y Shi, JH Yu, M Santosh - Precambrian Research, 2013 - Elsevier
The Qinling orogenic belt (QOB) located between the North China Craton (NCC) and the
Yangtze Craton (YZC) is composed of the Northern Qinling Belt (NQB) and the Southern …