Abstract The Qinling Orogenic Belt (QOB) is located between the North China and South China Blocks, and has been considered to have formed by the collision between these …
Although the axial and dominant geocentric character of the Earth's magnetic field means that paleolongitude is indeterminate, paleomagnetism is otherwise the only truly quantitative …
WL Xu, FP Pei, F Wang, E Meng, WQ Ji… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract LA-ICP-MS zircon U–Pb ages and geochemical data are presented for the Mesozoic volcanic rocks in northeast China, with the aim of determining the tectonic settings …
Global warming is widely regarded to have played a contributing role in numerous past biotic crises. Here, we show that the end-Permian mass extinction coincided with a rapid …
C Wang, J Dai, X Zhao, Y Li, SA Graham, D He, B Ran… - Tectonophysics, 2014 - Elsevier
The surface uplift history of the Tibetan Plateau (TP) offers a key testing ground for evaluating models of collisional tectonics and holds important implications for processes …
Subduction-related accretion in the Junggar–Balkash and South Tianshan Oceans (Paleo- Asian Ocean), mainly in the Paleozoic, gave rise to the present 2400km-long Tianshan …