“…The thrusting of Neoproterozoic ophiolites and deposition of arc-related sediments have been observed in many places along the southern margin of the Siberian Craton (Gladkochub et al, 2022(Gladkochub et al, , 2013Glorie et al, 2014;Khain et al, 2002;Powerman et al, 2015;Sklyarov, Lavrenchuk, Fedorovsky, Pushkarev, et al, 2020); these geological records were traditionally interpreted to reflect an early Paleozoic collision between the Siberian Craton and its peripheral continental fragments to the south (Zorin et al, 2009). Such a collision has been taken as a hallmark of an early event (namely the Baikal orogenic event), which shaped the initial evolution of the CAOB (Khain et al, 2003).…”