Zaizheng Zhou

TL;DR: In this paper, a new and revolutionary tectonic model was proposed to explain the distribution and exhumation of high pressure (HP)-ultra-high pressure (UHP) metamorphic rocks of the Dabie-Sulu Belt.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors summarized the comprehensive achievements of deformation analysis, igneous geochronology, tomography and other field observations in the East Asian Continental Margin in recent decade, briefly discussing the pre-Yanshanian final assembly of blocks and the formation of the unified continental margin in China, and mainly focusing on the review of Jurassic and Cretaceous geological processes.

TL;DR: The sinistral transpressional stress field played an important role in intraplate deformation in East Asia during the Late Triassic to Middle Jurassic, being characterized by the transition from the E-W-trending structural system controlled by the Tethys and Paleo-Asian oceans to the NE-tending structural system caused by the Paleo-Pacific Ocean subduction as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the zircon Lu-Hf isotopic data of Phanerozoic granitoids from this area, with a view to gain insights on the early Paleozoic geotectonic evolution of the Gondwana northern margin, and concluded that the Cambrian-Ordovician magmatic rocks from the central-south Tibet Plateau might have developed within a postcollision extensional, or even an eventual rift setting, following the Pan-African orogenesis.

TL;DR: In this paper, a detailed U-Pb geochronological study on detrital zircons and trace elemental geochemistry of the Mesoproterozoic meta-sedimentary rocks from the Sanxiatian Formation, the upper Huade Group, in the northern NCC is presented.