Crustal thickening prior to 220Ma in the East Kunlun Orogenic Belt: Insights from the Late Triassic granitoids in the Xiao-Nuomuhong pluton

Chemical compositions of garnet and clinopyroxene and their genetic significances in Yemaquan skarn iron–copper–zinc deposit, Qimantagh, eastern Kunlun

“…It can be subdivided into three tectonic zones according to the major faults: North, Middle, and South Kunlun Fault (Fig. 1a) (Jiang et al, 1992;Li et al, 2013a;Meng et al, 2013Meng et al, , 2015Xia et al, 2014;Xu et al, 2014;Yang et al, 1996). The Qimantagh district is located in the northwestern part of the North Zone.…”

Magmatic events recorded in granitic gneisses from the Hatu area, eastern East Kunlun Orogen: Response to the assembly of Rodinia

“…The Tibetan Plateau is a huge composite terrane that amalgamated through multiple continental collision events expressed by progressively younger sutures from northeast in the Early Paleozoic to southwest in the Cenozoic (Niu, Zhao, Zhu, & Mo, ). The EKO, which is located in the northern part of the Tibetan Plateau, is an important Tethyan tectono‐magmatic belt in East Asia (Xia et al, ). The EKO, stretching nearly E‐W, is bounded by the Qaidam Basin to the north and the Buqingshan–A'nyemaqen tectonic zone and the Bayan Har Orogen to the south (Figure b).…”

“…The Precambrian rocks are unconformably covered by a molasse assemblage of the Devonian Maoniushan Formation and Triassic clastic and volcanic rocks. The granitoids comprise Early Paleozoic intermediate‐acid intrusive rocks (Li et al, ; Xiong et al, ; Zhang et al, ) and Late Paleozoic–Mesozoic granites (Huang et al, ; Xia et al, ; Xiong, Ma, Zhang, & Liu, ; Zhang, Ma, et al, ; Zhang, Wang, et al, ) that intruded into the metamorphic rock.…”

Petrogenesis and geodynamic implications of the Mid-Triassic lavas from East Kunlun, northern Tibetan Plateau

“…From north to south, the EKOB can be divided into three segments: the North East Kunlun, the Central East Kunlun and the South East Kunlun (Fig.1b). The two northern elements are divided by the North East Kunlun Fault, whereas the Central East Kunlun and South East Kunlun sectors are separated by the Central East Kunlun fault (Jiang et al, 1992;Meng et al, 2013;Xia et al, 2014). There is a growing consensus that the EKOB has documented a complicated history of seafloor spreading, subduction, and terrane amalgamation between Gondwanaland and Laurasia since the Early Paleozoic (Jiang et al, 1992;Yang et al, 1996;Yin and Harrison, 2000;Zhang et al, 2004;Chen et al, 2008;Xiong et al, 2014).…”