Liangzhao Lu

TL;DR: The Central Zone of the North China Craton is divisible into low-to medium-grade granite-greenstone belts and high-grade metamorphic terrains containing reworked Archean material and late Archean to Paleoproterozoic juvenile igneous and sedimentary rocks which developed in intra-continental magmatic arc and intra-arc basin environments as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The basement rocks in the eastern zone of the North China craton are composed of pretectonic tonalitic-trondhjemitic-granodioritic gneisses and syntectonic granitoids, with rafts of supracrustal rocks consisting of ultramafic to felsic volcanic and sedimentary rocks, metamorphosed over a range of conditions from greenschist to granulite facies as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the early isothermal decompressional clockwise P-T path for the Hengshan prograde assemblage (M1) is preserved only in the high pressure granulites.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors divided the basement of the North China Craton into the eastern, central and western zones, based on lithological, structural, metamorphic and geochronological data.

TL;DR: In this paper, two textural types of mafic granulites, referred to as A- and B-types, are divided into two types: A-types display garnet+quartz symplectic coronas and outcrop in the eastern and western zones of the North China craton, whereas B-type mafics exhibit orthopyroxene+plagioclase±clinopyroxenes symplectites or coronas, and are mainly exposed in the central zone of the craton.