“…In the context of assembly and break‐up of supercontinent, the Tarim and North China cratons likely collided with the northern Australia margin of East Gondwana at ca. 500 Ma, which is supported by ~0.5 Ga peak of ages of detrital zircon grains from modern sands of Australia (Cawood et al, ; Condie, Belousova, Griffin, & Sircombe, ), by 510–470 Ma (U)HP metamorphic events in the southern Altyn Tagh area (e.g., Zhang, Mattinson, Yu, & Li, ) and the North Qinling block (e.g., J. S. Yang et al, ; H. F. Zhang, Yu, et al, ) and by the Cambrian–Ordovician angular unconformity along northern Australia (Myrow et al, ). As mentioned before, the first‐stage subduction of the SW Palaeo‐Asian Ocean north of the Palaeozoic Tarim likely initiated at ca.…”