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Paleomagnetic constraints on the paleogeography of the East Asian blocks during Late Paleozoic and Early Mesozoic times
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In this article, a series of paleogeographic reconstructions for these major blocks and lesser terranes of East Asia between mid-Ordovician and late Jurassic times was presented.About:
This article is published in Earth-Science Reviews.The article was published on 2018-11-01. It has received 210 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Apparent polar wander & Supercontinent.read more
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Geological reconstructions of the East Asian blocks: From the breakup of Rodinia to the assembly of Pangea
Guochun Zhao,Guochun Zhao,Yuejun Wang,Baochun Huang,Yunpeng Dong,Sanzhong Li,Guowei Zhang,Shan Yu +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors carried out geological and paleomagnetic investigations on East Asian blocks and associated orogenic belts, supported by a NSFC Major Program entitled “Reconstructions of East Asian Blocks in Pangea”.
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Closure of the East Paleotethyan Ocean and amalgamation of the Eastern Cimmerian and Southeast Asia continental fragments
Yuejun Wang,Xin Qian,Peter A. Cawood,Huichuan Liu,Qinglai Feng,Guochun Zhao,Yanhua Zhang,Huiying He,Peizhen Zhang +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, an overview of the geological features of the suture zones, the bounding continental fragments and their magmatic, metamorphic and sedimentary records is presented. But uncertainty remains as to which of the many suture regions in Southeast Asia represents the relict of the main ocean, when final ocean closure occurred, and the assembly history of the Eastern Cimmerian and Southeast Asia continental fragments.
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Multiple Tethyan ocean basins and orogenic belts in Asia
TL;DR: In this article, the evolution of the Tethyan ocean basins in Asia illustrates that Asia has been a giant convergent zone for more than 500 million years, and the Phanerozoic construction and evolution of Asia involved the opening and closure of Tithyan ocean basin and the collision and accretion of Gondwana-derived continental blocks and the Indian Craton Subduction processes, arc and back-arc basin generation, and continent-continent and arccontinent collisions led to the principal orogenic events.
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Central China Orogenic Belt and amalgamation of East Asian continents
Yunpeng Dong,Shengsi Sun,M. Santosh,M. Santosh,M. Santosh,Jie Zhao,Jiaopeng Sun,Dengfeng He,Xiaohui Shi,Bo Hui,Chao Cheng,Guowei Zhang +11 more
TL;DR: The Central China Orogenic belt (CCOB) as mentioned in this paper comprises, from the east to the west, the Tongbai-Dabie, Qinling, Qilian and Kunlun Orogens, and preserves abundant and important amalgamation records of the North China, South China, Qaidam, Tarim and Qiangtang Blocks.
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Neoproterozoic plate tectonic process and Phanerozoic geodynamic evolution of the South China Block
TL;DR: The South China block was initially formed by the Neoproterozoic assembly of the Yangtze and Cathaysia blocks following the subduction-accretion of the Paleo-South China Ocean as discussed by the authors.
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Evolution of the Altaid tectonic collage and Palaeozoic crustal growth in Eurasia
TL;DR: A new tectonic model, postulating the growth of giant subduction-accretion complexes along a single magmatic arc now found contorted between Siberia and Baltica, shows that Asia grew by 5.3 million square kilometres during the Palaeozoic era as mentioned in this paper.
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Late Archean to Paleoproterozoic evolution of the North China Craton: key issues revisited
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Accretion leading to collision and the Permian Solonker suture, Inner Mongolia, China: Termination of the central Asian orogenic belt
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report new field data for the Ondor Sum melange in the Ulan valley, and present a new evaluation of the orogenic belt extending from the southern Mongolia cratonic boundary to the north China craton.
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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
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