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Lithotectonic elements of Precambrian basement in the North China Craton: Review and tectonic implications
Guochun Zhao,Mingguo Zhai +1 more
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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.About:
This article is published in Gondwana Research.The article was published on 2013-05-01. It has received 804 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Craton & Basement (geology).read more
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Tectonic architecture and multiple orogeny of the Qinling Orogenic Belt, Central China
TL;DR: The Qinling Orogenic Belt (QOB) as mentioned in this paper is a composite orogenic belt that witnessed four major episodes of accretion and collision between discrete continental blocks, such as the North China Block, North Qinling Block and the South China Block.
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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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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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Multi-stage crustal growth and cratonization of the North China Craton
Mingguo Zhai,Mingguo Zhai +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed that the North China Craton (NCC) can be divided into six micro-blocks with >∼3.0-3.8-Ga old continental nuclei.
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Tectonic evolution of the Qinling orogenic belt, Central China: New evidence from geochemical, zircon U–Pb geochronology and Hf isotopes
TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented new geochemical data, zircon U-Pb ages and Hf isotopes from a suite of metamorphic rocks from the Kuanping, Qinling, Danfeng, Douling and Wuguan Groups in the NQB and the SQB.
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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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Remnants of ≥3800 Ma crust in the Chinese part of the Sino-Korean craton
TL;DR: In this article, the detrital zircons in an Archean metaquartzite are 3550 Ma or older; about one-fourth have ages between 3800 and 3850 Ma.
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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.