Mechanisms of continental crust formation in the Central Asian Foldbelt

Palaeomagnetic and structural constraints on 90° anticlockwise rotation in SW Mongolia during the Permo–Triassic: Implications for Altaid oroclinal bending. Preliminary palaeomagnetic results

“…Therefore, the (A) remagnetization may be related to the Middle to Late Carboniferous tectono-magmatic event affecting the whole southern Mongolia (e.g. Kozlovsky et al, 2012;Yarmolyuk et al, 2008aYarmolyuk et al, , 2012Guy et al, 2014).…”

Linking the Alxa Terrane to the eastern Gondwana during the Early Paleozoic: Constraints from detrital zircon U–Pb ages and Cambrian sedimentary records

“…The Alxa Terrane is located to the south of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (Windley et al, 2007;Xiao et al, 2010;Safonova et al, 2011;Yarmolyuk et al, 2012;Feng et al, 2013;Kröner et al, 2014;Zheng et al, 2014). The Ordos Terrane (North China Terrane) lies to the east, separated from the Alxa Terrane by the Mesozoic Helan Shan thrust belt which was caused by the eastward compression of the Alxa Terrane (Liu, 1998;Darby and Ritts, 2002).…”

Oceanic island basalts in accretionary complexes of SW Japan: Tectonic and petrogenetic implications

“…Subduction ceased in the Late Paleozoic-Mesozoic with the closure of the Paleo-Asian Ocean and the Turkestan, Junggar and Mongol-Okhotsk branches and the collision of the Siberian Craton with the Kazakhstan, Tarim and North China blocks. At present, the CAOB hosts numerous localities of accreted carbonate-capped OIBs and other OPS units, blueschists derived from MORB and OIB protoliths, huge granitoid batholiths and boninites (Volkova and Sklyarov, 2007;Gordienko et al, 2007;Yarmolyuk et al, 2012;Safonova and Santosh, 2014). The OIB-bearing accretionary complexes of the CAOB are archives of for OPS that preserve information on the evolution of the Paleo-Asian (Late Neoproterozoic-Carboniferous) and Paleo-Pacific (Permian-Cretaceous).…”