Amalgamation of the North China Craton: Key issues and discussion
Guochun Zhao,Peter A. Cawood,Sanzhong Li,Simon A. Wilde,Min Sun,Jian Zhang,Yanhong He,Changqing Yin +7 more
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In this article, a model for assembly and stabilization of the various Archean blocks of the NCC in the Paleoproterozoic has been proposed, based on the analysis of available stratigraphic, structural, geochemical, metamorphic and geochronologic data.About:
This article is published in Precambrian Research.The article was published on 2012-12-01 and is currently open access. It has received 755 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Craton & Supercontinent.read more
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Precambrian geology of China
Guochun Zhao,Peter A. Cawood +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a model for the origin of the 2.55-2.50-Ga metamorphic pulse in the North China Craton (NCC), which is interpreted as a major phase of juvenile crustal growth in the craton.
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Lithotectonic elements of Precambrian basement in the North China Craton: Review and tectonic implications
Guochun Zhao,Mingguo Zhai +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the 2.6-2.5 Ga basement rocks in the eastern and western parts of the NCC formed under different tectonic settings from those in the central part, consistent with subduction and continent-continent collisional belts.
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Introduction to tectonics of China
TL;DR: In the last three decades, extensive geological, geochemical and geophysical investigations have been carried out on these cratonic blocks and intervening orogenic belts, producing an abundant amount of new data and competing interpretations.
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Geological archive of the onset of plate tectonics
Peter A. Cawood,Peter A. Cawood,Chris J. Hawkesworth,Sergei Pisarevsky,Bruno Dhuime,Fabio A. Capitanio,Oliver Nebel +6 more
TL;DR: Sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic proxies along with palaeomagnetic data are reviewed to infer both the development of rigid lithospheric plates and their independent relative motion, and conclude that significant changes in Earth behaviour occurred in the mid- to late Archaean.
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Insights into the tectonic evolution of the North China Craton through comparative tectonic analysis: A record of outward growth of Precambrian continents
Timothy M. Kusky,Ali Polat,Ali Polat,Brian F. Windley,Brian F. Windley,Kevin Burke,John F. Dewey,William S.F. Kidd,S. Maruyama,S. Maruyama,Junpeng Wang,Hao Deng,Zhensheng Wang,Chaowen Wang,Dong Fu,Xiawen Li,Hongtao Peng +16 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an actualistic tectonic division and evolution of the North China Craton based on the Wilson Cycle and comparative analysis that uses a multi-disciplinary approach to define sutures, their ages, and the nature of the rocks between them, to determine their mode of formation and means of accretion or exhumation.
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Late Archean to Paleoproterozoic evolution of the North China Craton: key issues revisited
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a model for the evolution of the North China Craton that envisages discrete Eastern and Western Blocks that developed independently during the Archean and collided along the Trans-North China Orogen during a Paleoproterozoic orogenic event.
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Archean blocks and their boundaries in the North China Craton: lithological, geochemical, structural and P–T path constraints and tectonic evolution
TL;DR: In this paper, a mantle plume model is proposed for the formation and evolution of Late Archean basement rocks in the Eastern and Western Blocks based on a combination of extensive exposure of TTG gneisses, affinities of mafic rocks to continental tholeiitic basalts, presence of voluminous komatiitic rocks, dominant diaprism-related domiform structures, anticlockwise P-T paths, and a short time span from the primary emplacement of the TTG and ultramafic-to-maf
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The early Precambrian odyssey of the North China Craton: A synoptic overview
TL;DR: The crustal growth and stabilization of the North China Craton (NCC) relate to three major geological events in the Precambrian: (1) a major phase of continental growth at ca. 2.9-2.7 Ga, (2) the amalgamation of micro-blocks and cratonization at 2.5-3.5 Ga, and (3) Paleoproterozoic rifting-subduction-accretion-collision tectonics and subsequent high-grade granulite facies metamorphism-granitoid mag
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Paleoproterozoic tectonic evolution of the North China Craton
Timothy M. Kusky,Jianghai Li +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors synthesize the geology, geochronology, and tectonics of the Neo-archean through Mesoproterozoic evolution of the North China Craton.
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Assembling North China Craton within the Columbia supercontinent: The role of double-sided subduction
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a double-sided subduction history for the North China Craton (NCC) similar to the ongoing subduction process in the Western Pacific, which is considered to promote rapid amalgamation of continental fragments within supercontinents and the subduction polarities and mantle dynamics are therefore considered to be critical in evaluating the final assembly of the Paleoproterozoic supercontinent Columbia.