Reconstructing South China in phanerozoic and precambrian supercontinents

PA Cawood, G Zhao, J Yao, W Wang, Y Xu… - Earth-Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
The history of the South China Craton and the constituent Yangtze and Cathaysia blocks are
directly linked to Earth's Phanerozoic and Precambrian record of supercontinent assembly …

Deconstructing South China and consequences for reconstructing Nuna and Rodinia

PA Cawood, W Wang, T Zhao, Y Xu, JA Mulder… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Contrasting models for internal and external locations of South China within the Nuna and
Rodinia supercontinents can be resolved when the current lithotectonic associations of …

Asynchronizing paleo-Pacific slab rollback beneath SE China: Insights from the episodic Late Mesozoic volcanism

L Liu, X Xu, Y Xia - Gondwana Research, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Extensive Late Mesozoic igneous rocks in SE China have been widely considered
to be generated under the paleo-Pacific tectonic regime. Previous studies suggested a …

Detrital provenance evolution of the Ediacaran–Silurian Nanhua foreland basin, South China

WH Yao, ZX Li, WX Li, L Su, JH Yang - Gondwana Research, 2015 - Elsevier
We report here in-situ U–Pb and Hf isotopic results of detrital zircons from sixteen Cambrian–
Silurian siliciclastic samples across the Nanhua foreland basin, South China. Together with …

Proterozoic tectonics of Hainan Island in supercontinent cycles: New insights from geochronological and isotopic results

W Yao, ZX Li, WX Li, XH Li - Precambrian Research, 2017 - Elsevier
Hainan Island in southwestern south China has 1.43 Ga crystalline rocks as part of the
Proterozoic basement rocks for the Cathaysia Block. Understanding Proterozoic tectonics of …

Ages and character of igneous rocks of the Da Lat Zone in SE Vietnam and adjacent offshore regions (Cuu Long and Nam Con Son basins)

J Hennig-Breitfeld, HT Breitfeld, DQ Sang… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Da Lat Zone in SE Vietnam consists of a Mesozoic orogenic belt that is
characterised by abundant Cretaceous igneous rocks that were intruded into or deposited …

Age, provenance and tectonic setting of Neoproterozoic to early Paleozoic sequences in southeastern South China Block: Constraints on its linkage to western …

W Wang, MF Zeng, MF Zhou, JH Zhao, JP Zheng… - Precambrian …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Zircon U-Pb-Hf isotopes and whole-rock geochemical data are applied to
investigate the age, provenance and tectonic setting of the late Neoproterozoic and …

The Mesoproterozoic Baoban complex, South China: A missing fragment of western Laurentian lithosphere

YJ Xu, PA Cawood, HC Zhang, JW Zi, JB Zhou… - …, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
New age data for the Baoban Complex, South China establishes that it lay outboard of
western Laurentia in the early Mesoproterozoic but was not part of the Cathaysia Block, with …

Provenance and genesis of karstic bauxite deposits in China: Implications for the formation of super-large karstic bauxite deposits

X Liu, L Zhao, Q Wang, X Sun, L Liu, S Yang… - Earth-Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Since the Carboniferous, over 7.0 billion tons (Gt) of karstic bauxite deposits have
formed in the North China Craton (NCC) and the South China Block (SCB), rendering them …

Using detrital zircons from river sands to constrain major tectono-thermal events of the Cathaysia Block, SE China

Y Xu, CY Wang, T Zhao - Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2016 - Elsevier
Detrital zircons from the Minjiang and Zhujiang Rivers in SE China have been analyzed for
U/Pb ages and Lu–Hf isotopic compositions to constrain their provenance and the growth …