Final amalgamation of the Tianshan and Junggar orogenic collage in the southwestern Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Constraints on the closure of the Paleo-Asian …

Y Han, G Zhao - Earth-Science Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Tianshan and Junggar orogenic collage occupies the southwestern part of the
Central Asian Orogenic Belt and was assembled by collision/accretion of several continental …

Tectonic evolution, superimposed orogeny, and composite metallogenic system in China

J Deng, Q Wang, G Li - Gondwana Research, 2017 - Elsevier
Continental China is a mosaic of numerous tectonic blocks, which amalgamated from
Neoarchean to Cenozoic broadly coeval with the cycles of global supercontinents such as …

Rejuvenation of ancient micro-continents during accretionary orogenesis: Insights from the Yili Block and adjacent regions of the SW Central Asian Orogenic Belt

H Huang, T Wang, Y Tong, Q Qin, X Ma, J Yin - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract In the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB), whether substantial juvenile additions
associated with accretionary orogenesis are preserved is still a pending issue. The Yili Block …

Tectono-stratigraphic framework and Palaeozoic evolution of the Chinese South Tianshan

DV Alexeiev, YS Biske, B Wang, AV Djenchuraeva… - Geotectonics, 2015 - Springer
A stratigraphic and structural study was carried out in the central part of the Chinese South
Tianshan (STS) within a 50–100 km-wide transect centered on the Dushanzi-Kuqa road (83° …

Late Paleozoic subduction and collision processes during the amalgamation of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt along the South Tianshan suture zone

Y Han, G Zhao, M Sun, PR Eizenhöfer, W Hou… - Lithos, 2016 - Elsevier
The provenance of late Paleozoic siliciclastic sedimentary strata on the northern margin of
the Tarim Craton and the South Tianshan Orogenic Belt provides important insights into …

The Central Tianshan Block: A microcontinent with a Neoarchean-Paleoproterozoic basement in the southwestern Central Asian orogenic belt

XS Wang, J Gao, R Klemd, T Jiang, JL Li, X Zhang… - Precambrian …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Central Tianshan Block (CTB) is one of the major continental constituents of the
western Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB). Its nature and origin is essential for …

Abiotic methane generation through reduction of serpentinite-hosted dolomite: implications for carbon mobility in subduction zones

W Peng, L Zhang, S Tumiati, AV Brovarone… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2021 - Elsevier
Abiotic methane has been increasingly detected at the surface of Earth and other terrestrial
planets, exerting a strong effect on the study of chemolithoautotrophic life and thus …

Sources and provenance of the Neoproterozoic placer deposits of the Northern Kazakhstan: Implication for continental growth of the western Central Asian Orogenic …

V Kovach, K Degtyarev, A Tretyakov, A Kotov… - Gondwana …, 2017 - Elsevier
We present results of in situ analysis of zircon U-Pb ages, Hf isotopic compositions for
detrital zircons combined with whole-rock Nd isotopic data for the Neoproterozoic quartzites …

Architecture and PT-deformation-time evolution of the Chinese SW-Tianshan HP/UHP complex: Implications for subduction dynamics

Z Tan, P Agard, P Monie, J Gao, T John, L Bayet… - Earth-Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
We present the first comprehensive PT-deformation-time and kinematic constraints for
HP/UHP eclogite, blueschist and greenschist-facies metavolcano-sedimentary rocks …

Detrital zircon geochronology and processes in accretionary wedges

J Žák, M Svojtka, J Hajná, L Ackerman - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
The detrital zircon U–Pb geochronology has been widely employed to analyze accretionary
wedges over the past decade. The goal of this paper is, first, to briefly review this rapidly …