Final amalgamation of the Tianshan and Junggar orogenic collage in the southwestern Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Constraints on the closure of the Paleo-Asian …

Y Han, G Zhao - Earth-Science Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Tianshan and Junggar orogenic collage occupies the southwestern part of the
Central Asian Orogenic Belt and was assembled by collision/accretion of several continental …

Late Carboniferous collision between the Tarim and Kazakhstan–Yili terranes in the western segment of the South Tian Shan Orogen, Central Asia, and implications …

BF Han, GQ He, XC Wang, ZJ Guo - Earth-Science Reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
The Tian Shan of Central Asia is located in the southwestern part of the Central Asian
Orogenic Belt (CAOB, also known as the Central Asian Orogenic System or CAOS) …

[HTML][HTML] Global kinematics of tectonic plates and subduction zones since the late Paleozoic Era

A Young, N Flament, K Maloney, S Williams… - Geoscience …, 2019 - Elsevier
Detailed global plate motion models that provide a continuous description of plate
boundaries through time are an effective tool for exploring processes both at and below the …

Detrital and xenocrystic zircon ages from Neoproterozoic to Palaeozoic arc terranes of Mongolia: significance for the origin of crustal fragments in the Central Asian …

Y Rojas-Agramonte, A Kröner, A Demoux, X Xia… - Gondwana …, 2011 - Elsevier
The Central Asian Orogenic Belt contains many Precambrian crustal fragments whose origin
is unknown, and previous speculations suggested these to be derived from either Siberia …

Precambrian tectonic evolution of the Tarim Block, NW China: new geochronological insights from the Quruqtagh domain

LS Shu, XL Deng, WB Zhu, DS Ma, WJ Xiao - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2011 - Elsevier
The Tarim Block is an important tectonic unit to understand the Proterozoic tectonic
framework of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt and the supercontinent Rodinia. The granitic …

Neoproterozoic to Paleozoic long‐lived accretionary orogeny in the northern Tarim Craton

R Ge, W Zhu, SA Wilde, J He, X Cui, X Wang… - Tectonics, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Tarim Craton, located in the center of Asia, was involved in the assembly and
breakup of the Rodinia supercontinent during the Neoproterozoic and the subduction …

Paleozoic tectonics of the southern Chinese Tianshan: Insights from structural, chronological and geochemical studies of the Heiyingshan ophiolitic mélange (NW …

B Wang, L Shu, M Faure, B Jahn, D Cluzel, J Charvet… - Tectonophysics, 2011 - Elsevier
In the southern Chinese Tianshan, the southernmost part of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt
(CAOB), widespread ophiolitic mélanges form distinct tectonic units that are crucial for …

Mesozoic and Cenozoic tectonic history of the central Chinese Tian Shan: Reactivated tectonic structures and active deformation

M Jolivet, S Dominguez, J Charreau, Y Chen, Y Li… - …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The present‐day topography of the Tian Shan range is considered to result from crustal
shortening related to the ongoing India‐Asia collision that started in the early Tertiary. In this …

Final closure of the Paleo Asian Ocean basin in the early Triassic

Z Tan, W Xiao, Q Mao, H Wang, M Sang, R Li… - … Earth & Environment, 2022 - nature.com
The timing of the final welding of the southern Altaids to construct Pangea is a matter of
debate which has led to considerable uncertainty regarding the configuration of northeast …

Juvenile versus recycled crust in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Implications from ocean plate stratigraphy, blueschist belts and intra-oceanic arcs

I Safonova - Gondwana Research, 2017 - Elsevier
New or “juvenile” crust forms and grows mainly through mafic to andesitic magmatism at
Pacific-type or accretionary type convergent margins as well as via tectonic accretion of …