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 …

Late Carboniferous collision between the Tarim and Kazakhstan–Yili terranes in the western segment of the South Tian Shan Orogen, Central Asia, and implications …

BF Han, GQ He, XC Wang, ZJ Guo - Earth-Science Reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
The Tian Shan of Central Asia is located in the southwestern part of the Central Asian
Orogenic Belt (CAOB, also known as the Central Asian Orogenic System or CAOS) …

Accretionary processes and metallogenesis of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Advances and perspectives

W Xiao, D Song, BF Windley, J Li, C Han… - Science China Earth …, 2020 - Springer
As one of the largest Phanerozoic orogens in the world, the Central Asian Orogenic Belt
(CAOB) is a natural laboratory for studies of continental dynamics and metallogenesis. This …

Neoproterozoic to Paleozoic long‐lived accretionary orogeny in the northern Tarim Craton

R Ge, W Zhu, SA Wilde, J He, X Cui, X Wang… - Tectonics, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Tarim Craton, located in the center of Asia, was involved in the assembly and
breakup of the Rodinia supercontinent during the Neoproterozoic and the subduction …

[HTML][HTML] 准噶尔—天山—北山蛇绿岩: 对中亚造山带西南缘洋陆格局演化的制约

高俊, 江拓, 王信水李继磊, 翟庆国, 胡培远, 钱青 - 地质科学, 2022 - dzkx.org
准噶尔, 天山和北山52 个蛇绿岩的地质特征, 地球化学性质和同位素年代学资料系统集成研究
表明它们可以分为14 条蛇绿(混杂) 岩带. 绝大多数蛇绿岩呈“岩块+ 基质” 的混杂岩型式沿重要 …

[HTML][HTML] Natural observations of subduction initiation: Implications for the geodynamic evolution of the Paleo-Asian Ocean

G Yang, Y Li, L Tong, Z Wang, G Si, P Lindagato… - Geosystems and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Initiation of new subduction zones is an integral part of Earth's plate tectonics regime. It is
generally accepted that the negative buoyancy of sufficiently old oceanic lithosphere …

The Paleozoic northern margin of the Tarim Craton: passive or active?

R Ge, W Zhu, H Wu, B Zheng, X Zhu, J He - Lithos, 2012 - Elsevier
Whether the northern Tarim Craton was an active or passive continental margin during the
Paleozoic is vital to our understanding of the subduction polarity of paleo-oceanic plates in …

Structure, age, and tectonic development of the Huoshishan–Niujuanzi ophiolitic mélange, Beishan, southernmost Altaids

Z Tian, W Xiao, BF Windley, C Han, J Zhang, B Wan… - Gondwana …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The Huoshishan–Niujuanzi ophiolitic mélange (HNO) is located near the central
part of the Beishan Orogenic Belt in the southernmost Altaids. The HNO consists of …

Cambrian to early Silurian ophiolite and accretionary processes in the Beishan collage, NW China: implications for the architecture of the Southern Altaids

SJ Ao, WJ Xiao, CM Han, XH Li, JF Qu… - Geological …, 2012 - cambridge.org
The mechanism of continental growth of the Altaids is currently under debate between
models invoking continuous subduction-accretion or punctuated accretion by closure of …