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Precambrian geology of China

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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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This article is published in Precambrian Research.The article was published on 2012-12-01. It has received 1181 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Proterozoic & Volcanic rock.

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Lithotectonic elements of Precambrian basement in the North China Craton: Review and tectonic implications

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 reconstructions of the East Asian blocks: From the breakup of Rodinia to the assembly of Pangea

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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Locating South China in Rodinia and Gondwana: A fragment of greater India lithosphere?

TL;DR: The South China craton was formed at the end of the Mesoproterozoic by Rodinia and occupied a position adjacent to Western Australia and northern India in the early NeoproTERozoic as discussed by the authors.
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Gold mineralization in China: Metallogenic provinces, deposit types and tectonic framework

TL;DR: A review of major gold mineralization events in China and a summary of metallogenic provinces, deposit types, metallogen epochs and tectonic settings are presented in this paper.
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A Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth

TL;DR: Negative carbon isotope anomalies in carbonate rocks bracketing Neoproterozoic glacial deposits in Namibia, combined with estimates of thermal subsidence history, suggest that biological productivity in the surface ocean collapsed for millions of years.
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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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Review of global 2.1-1.8 Ga orogens: implications for a pre-Rodinia supercontinent

TL;DR: The existence of a supercontinent existing before Rodinia, referred to herein as Columbia, a name recently proposed by Rogers and Santosh [Gondwana Res. 5 (2002) 5] for a Paleo-Mesoproterozoic super-continent, was confirmed by available lithostratigraphic, tectonothermal, geochronological and paleomagnetic data as mentioned in this paper.
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