The geology of North Korea: an overview

M Zhai, XH Zhang, YB Zhang, FY Wu, P Peng… - Earth-Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Korean Peninsula (KP) occupies a junction area of three big tectonic domains
that are the Paleo-Central Asian Orogenic Belt, Paleo-Tethyan Orogenic Belt and the …

A Paleoproterozoic orogeny recorded in a long-lived cratonic remnant (Wuyishan terrane), eastern Cathaysia Block, China

JH Yu, L Wang, SY O'reilly, WL Griffin, M Zhang… - Precambrian …, 2009 - Elsevier
The Precambrian basement of northern Wuyishan (southern Zhejiang Province, eastern
Cathaysia Block, South China), consists mainly of Paleoproterozoic granites and …

U–Pb geochronology and Hf–Nd isotopic geochemistry of the Badu Complex, Southeastern China: implications for the Precambrian crustal evolution and …

JH Yu, SY O'Reilly, MF Zhou, WL Griffin, L Wang - Precambrian Research, 2012 - Elsevier
The oldest rocks of the Cathaysia Block, South China, comprise the Badu Complex and
Paleoproterozoic granites in the Wuyishan area (southern Zhejiang and northwestern Fujian …

Tracking Paleozoic evolution of the South Korean Peninsula from detrital zircon records: Implications for the tectonic history of East Asia

SW Kim, SI Park, Y Jang, S Kwon, SJ Kim… - Gondwana …, 2017 - Elsevier
The southern part of the Korean Peninsula preserves important records of the Paleozoic
evolutionary history of East Asia. Here we present SHRIMP U–Pb ages of detrital zircon …

Mesozoic episodic magmatism in South Korea and its tectonic implication

H Sagong, ST Kwon, JH Ree - Tectonics, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
NE trending granitoid batholiths in South Korea are part of the huge Phanerozoic granitoid
belt in east Asia. The crystallization ages of granitoid plutons show three episodes of …

Neoproterozoic (~ 900 Ma) Sariwon sills in North Korea: Geochronology, geochemistry and implications for the evolution of the south-eastern margin of the North …

P Peng, MG Zhai, Q Li, F Wu, Q Hou, Z Li, T Li… - Gondwana …, 2011 - Elsevier
The Sariwon sills are distributed in the Pyongnam basin at the center of the Korean
peninsula, eastern part of the North China Craton. These sills are up to 150m in thickness …

A new concept on tectonic correlation between Korea, China and Japan: histories from the late Proterozoic to Cretaceous

CW Oh - Gondwana Research, 2006 - Elsevier
The Dabie–Sulu collision belt in China extends to the Hongseong–Odesan belt in Korea
while the Okcheon metamorphic belt in Korea is considered as an extension of the Nanhua …

Implications based on the first SHRIMP U–Pb zircon dating on Precambrian granitoid rocks in North Korea

G Zhao, L Cao, SA Wilde, M Sun, WJ Choe… - Earth and Planetary …, 2006 - Elsevier
Precambrian basement rocks in North Korea consist of supracrustals and granitoid rocks, of
which the former comprise the late Archean Nangrim Group and the Paleoproterozoic …

Geochronology, and geochemical and Nd–Sr isotopic characteristics, of Triassic plutonic rocks in the Gyeonggi Massif, South Korea: constraints on Triassic post …

IS Williams, DL Cho, SW Kim - Lithos, 2009 - Elsevier
Sensitive high-resolution ion microprobe (SHRIMP) zircon U–Pb ages, and whole-rock
chemical and isotopic (Sr–Nd) compositions, have been measured on some Middle Triassic …

Evidence for Permo-Triassic collision in far east Asia: the Korean collisional orogen

S Kwon, K Sajeev, G Mitra, Y Park, SW Kim… - Earth and Planetary …, 2009 - Elsevier
Eclogites from paragneiss in the Korean Peninsula are characterized by a peak pressure
assemblage of garnet+ omphacite+ quartz+ rutile, that is overprinted by multiphase …