Metallogeny and craton destruction: Records from the North China Craton

Origin and Evolution of the Ore-Forming Fluids in the Liyuan Gold Deposit, Central North China Craton: Constraints from Fluid Inclusions and H-O-C Isotopic Compositions

“…Maruyama et al [123] considered this region as a continental margin orogenic belt, and its landward boundary was the NNE-trending N-S Gravity Lineament (NSGL, Figure 1(b)). The Taihang Mountains are part of the typical NSGL in the central NCC [124]; thus, although far from the eastern margin of NCC, the region could be affected by the subduction of the Paleo-Pacific plate, and large scale fluid circulation, granitic magmatism, and metallogenesis took place during the Jurassic to Cretaceous in the TM region.…”

Petrogenesis of the early Cretaceous Funiushan granites on the southern margin of the North China Craton: Implications for the Mesozoic geological evolution

“…It is estimated that more than 100 km of the ancient lithosphere may have been destroyed and removed beneath the NCC (e.g. Zhai and Santosh, 2013;Li and Santosh, 2014). The southern margin of the NCC records intense tectonic-magmatic activity during the late Mesozoic, with development of voluminous felsic igneous rocks which are spatially and genetically associated with many world-class Au and Mo ore deposits (e.g.…”

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

“…These convergent margin processes exerted significant influence on the Permian crustal evolution of NE China and adjacent regions (Li, 2006). The subduction of Pacific slab towards the northeast of Asia is considered as the main trigger for lithospheric delamination since Mesozoic, triggering voluminous magmatism, related metallogeny, extensional tectonics generating major rift basins, large scale upwelling of the asthenosphere, and extensive lithospheric thinning (Deng et al, 1996;Zhang et al, 2011b;Li et al, 2012c;Guo et al, 2013;Zhai and Santosh, 2013;Goldfarb and Santosh, 2014;Li and Santosh, 2014;Yang and Santosh, 2015).…”