Crustal structure and extensional deformation of thinned lithosphere in Northern China

Continental dynamics of Eastern China: Insights from tectonic history and receiver function analysis

“…NE China forms part of the Paleo-Asian tectonic domain and was overprinted by circum-Pacific orogens during the Mesozoic and Cenozoic Zhang et al, 2011c). The region represents a key for understanding the tectonic fabric of Asia, where the Central Asian Orogen and the Circum-Pacific Orogen overlap (Yakubchuk, 2002;Zhang et al, 2011a).…”

“…The initiation of lithospheric thinning at ca. 160-130 Ma (Wang and Xu, 2003;Zhang et al, 2011c) occurred almost synchronously with the magmatic activity in NE China ). An upwelling mantle plume might have domed up the continental crust by 2-3 km, and rifting started above the center of plume head by the extensive development of listric normal faults, which is consistent with geological observation and seismic evidence in this area (Li, 1998;He et al, 2014a).…”

Lateral variation of the strength of lithosphere across the eastern North China Craton: New constraints on lithospheric disruption

“…At present, the NCC is affected by the removal of a layer of lithospheric material 80-100 km thick (Menzies et al, 1993;Fan et al, 2000;Chen et al, 2008), and the lithosphere of the eastern portion of the NCC can now be classified as transitional (Zhang et al, 2003;Menzies et al, 2007;Wang et al, 2009;Zhang et al, 2009a, . Inset map shows geographic position of the NCC in China continent (Zhang et al, 2011b). The fault belts are outlined in white and the boundaries of political provinces are shown by continuous black lines; P1, P2, P3 (violet lines) identify three wide-angle seismic profiles carried out in the North China Craton (NCC) (Li and Mooney, 1998;Zhang et al, 2011b) and the rectangle delimits the study area featured with our 1660 km lithosphere-scale transect.…”

“…Inset map shows geographic position of the NCC in China continent (Zhang et al, 2011b). The fault belts are outlined in white and the boundaries of political provinces are shown by continuous black lines; P1, P2, P3 (violet lines) identify three wide-angle seismic profiles carried out in the North China Craton (NCC) (Li and Mooney, 1998;Zhang et al, 2011b) and the rectangle delimits the study area featured with our 1660 km lithosphere-scale transect.…”

“…In the eastern part of the NCC, there are three wide-angle seismic profiles. All of them approximately follow a north-south axis, namely (1) the Yichuan-Shiyan (Cao et al, 1994) and Anxin-Kuangchen profiles (Zhang et al, 2011b) (Profile 1 in Fig. 1), (2) the Zhengzhou-Jinan profile (Zhang et al, 1994) (Profile 2 in Fig.…”