The North China Craton (NCC) was originally formed by the amalgamation of the eastern
and western blocks along an orogenic belt at∼ 1.9 Ga. After cratonization, the NCC was …

Eastern China provides a precious opportunity to explore how subduction drives evolution of
the overlying continental lithosphere and to understand the fate of subducted plates. In this …

The continental crust is unique to the Earth in the solar system, and controversies remain
regarding its origin, accretion and reworking of continents. The plate tectonics theory has …

Arc-basaltic melts of typical hydration state (≥ 2 wt% H 2 O) are buoyant relative to all
common crustal igneous rock types and may pass adiabatically from a mantle source …

During the subhorizontal (flat) subduction of an ocean–lithosphere plate, the overlying
continental plate is deformed far inland of the plate boundary. In addition, arc magmatism …

Water plays a critical role in erosion and sediment transport and this relationship is most
evident in the hyperarid Atacama Desert of Northern Chile, a region characterized by …

Reconfigurations of magmatic arcs through time have been recognized since pioneering
works, describing inland and trenchward arc migrations or magmatic shut-off lasting for …

Abstract Subduction of the Paleo‐Pacific Plate caused widespread Mesozoic magmatism,
lithospheric deformation and thinning, and mineralization along the continental margin of …

Broken foreland basins are caused by crustal-scale contractional basement structures that
compartmentalize (or break) a contiguous retroarc or collisional foreland basin into smaller …

Timing and distribution of magmatism, deformation, exhumation, and basin development
have been used to reconstruct the history of Laramide flat‐slab subduction under North …