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 …

Cross Orogenic Belts in Central China: Implications for the tectonic and paleogeographic evolution of the East Asian continental collage

Y Dong, S Sun, M Santosh, B Hui, J Sun, F Zhang… - Gondwana …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The East Asian continent records a complex geologic and tectonic history that
involved the amalgamation of several small-to medium-sized blocks from Laurasia or …

Ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic rocks in the Dabie–Sulu orogenic belt: compositional inheritance and metamorphic modification

YF Zheng, ZF Zhao, RX Chen - Geological Society, London …, 2019 - lyellcollection.org
Abstract The Dabie–Sulu orogenic belt in east-central China contains one of the largest
ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) metamorphic terranes in the world. The UHP eclogites are …

40Ar/39Ar mineral ages of eclogites from North Shahrekord in the Sanandaj–Sirjan Zone, Iran: implications for the tectonic evolution of Zagros orogen

AR Davoudian, J Genser, F Neubauer… - Gondwana Research, 2016 - Elsevier
Eclogites are high-pressure/low-temperature metamorphic rocks and are regularly
considered as an indicator of ancient subduction zones. Eclogites have recently been found …

Metamorphic zirconology of continental subduction zones

RX Chen, YF Zheng - Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2017 - Elsevier
Zircon is widely used to date geological events and trace geochemical sources in high-
pressure (HP) to ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) metamorphic rocks of continental subduction …

High-temperature overprint in (U) HPM rocks exhumed from subduction zones; A product of isothermal decompression or a consequence of slab break-off (slab …

SW Faryad, SJ Cuthbert - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper presents and discusses petrological observations from high-to ultrahigh-pressure
(U) HP metamorphic terrains in relation to existing geophysical and numerical models for …

An accreted micro-continent in the north of the Dabie Orogen, East China: Evidence from detrital zircon dating

G Zhu, Y Wang, W Wang, S Zhang, C Liu, C Gu, Y Li - Tectonophysics, 2017 - Elsevier
Continent–continent collision between the North China Block (NCB) and South China Block
(SCB) took place along the Qinling–Tongbai–Hong'an–Dabie orogens during the Triassic. A …

The Ti-in-zircon thermometer revised: The effect of pressure on the Ti site in zircon

LJ Crisp, AJ Berry, AD Burnham, LA Miller… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2023 - Elsevier
The Ti content of zircon (ZrSiO 4) can be used as a geothermometer. Ti could substitute for
Si or Zr in zircon, which would result in opposing responses of Ti solubility to (i) the activities …

In situ rutile U-Pb dating based on zircon calibration using LA-ICP-MS, geological applications in the Dabie orogen, China

Z Hou, Y Xiao, J Shen, C Yu - Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
Rutile U-Pb dating by laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-
MS) has received increasing attention in geological applications. Previous natural rutile …

PT evolution of elusive UHP eclogites from the Luotian dome (North Dabie Zone, China): How far can the thermodynamic modeling lead us?

C Groppo, F Rolfo, YC Liu, LP Deng, AD Wang - Lithos, 2015 - Elsevier
In those ultrahigh pressure (UHP) terranes that experienced protracted high/ultrahigh
temperature (HT/UHT) exhumation histories, slow exhumation rates and a widespread …