The Altaids of Central Asia: A tectonic and evolutionary innovative review

C Wilhem, BF Windley, GM Stampfli - Earth-Science Reviews, 2012 - Elsevier
The Altaids, one of the largest and long-lived accretionary orogens in the world, developed
from ca. 600Ma to 250Ma by the multiple accretions of terranes of different origin, chiefly …

Tectonic models for accretion of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt

BF Windley, D Alexeiev, W Xiao… - Journal of the …, 2007 - lyellcollection.org
The Central Asian Orogenic Belt (c. 1000–250 Ma) formed by accretion of island arcs,
ophiolites, oceanic islands, seamounts, accretionary wedges, oceanic plateaux and …

华北克拉通北缘及邻区前燕山期主要地质事件

赵越, 陈斌, 张拴宏, 刘建民, 胡健民, 刘健… - 中国地质, 2010 - geochina.cgs.gov.cn
提要: 近年来, 华北克拉通北缘及邻区的研究进展集中在前燕山期的主要地质构造格架的廓清,
以及晚中生代以来的构造岩浆事件和克拉通岩石圈减薄研究的深化. 本文对前者的研究进展作 …

[HTML][HTML] Plate tectonics in the late Paleozoic

M Domeier, TH Torsvik - Geoscience Frontiers, 2014 - Elsevier
As the chronicle of plate motions through time, paleogeography is fundamental to our
understanding of plate tectonics and its role in shaping the geology of the present-day. To …

Continental arc volcanism as the principal driver of icehouse-greenhouse variability

NR McKenzie, BK Horton, SE Loomis, DF Stockli… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Variations in continental volcanic arc emissions have the potential to control atmospheric
carbon dioxide (CO2) levels and climate change on multimillion-year time scales. Here we …

Final closure of the Paleo‐Asian Ocean along the Solonker suture zone: Constraints from geochronological and geochemical data of Permian volcanic and …

PR Eizenhöfer, G Zhao, J Zhang, M Sun - Tectonics, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
There is a broad consensus that the Solonker Suture Zone marks the final closure of the
Paleo‐Asian Ocean, which led to the formation of the eastern segment of the Central Asian …

End-Permian to mid-Triassic termination of the accretionary processes of the southern Altaids: implications for the geodynamic evolution, Phanerozoic continental …

WJ Xiao, BF Windley, BC Huang, CM Han… - International Journal of …, 2009 - Springer
The Altaids is one of the largest accretionary orogenic collages in the world with the highest
rate of Phanerozoic continental growth and significant metallogenic importance. It is widely …

Middle Paleozoic convergent orogenic belts in western Inner Mongolia (China): framework, kinematics, geochronology and implications for tectonic evolution of the …

B Xu, J Charvet, Y Chen, P Zhao, G Shi - Gondwana Research, 2013 - Elsevier
Based mainly on field geological observation and geochronologic data, six tectonic units
have been recognized in western Inner Mongolia (China), including, from south to north …

Evolution of a Permian intraoceanic arc–trench system in the Solonker suture zone, Central Asian Orogenic Belt, China and Mongolia

P Jian, D Liu, A Kröner, BF Windley, Y Shi, W Zhang… - Lithos, 2010 - Elsevier
The identification of a fossil arc–trench system from the ophiolite-decorated Solonker suture
zone in the southernmost Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB) enables us to constrain the …

[PDF][PDF] Paleozoic multiple accretionary and collisional processes of the Beishan orogenic collage

WJ Xiao, QG Mao, BF Windley, CM Han… - American Journal of …, 2010 - ajsonline.org
The Beishan orogenic collage is located in the southernmost part of the Altaids, and
connects the Southern Tien Shan suture to the west with the Solonker suture to the east. The …