The Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Great North China: two types of rifting and crustal necking in the Great North China and their tectonic implications

Recycled oceanic crust in the source of 90–40Ma basalts in North and Northeast China: Evidence, provenance and significance

“…This spatial pattern of craton destruction, together with NE-NNE-oriented extensional basins, main structural alignments and metamorphic core complexes (Zheng et al, 1978;Ye et al, 1987;Ren et al, 2002;Liu et al, 2006;, is consistent with the subduction direction of the Pacific plate. (2) Two main episodes of late Mesozoic magmatism have been identified in the Jurassic and the early Cretaceous.…”

Late Archean to Early Proterozoic lithospheric mantle beneath the western North China craton: Sr–Nd–Os isotopes of peridotite xenoliths from Yangyuan and Fansi

“…The different lithospheric structure in the western and eastern NCC could be due to the diachronous extension history that resulted from interaction of two tectonic regimes (Xu et al, 2004b). While the extension in the Shanxi graben was likely related to the Indo-Eurasian collision (Ye et al, 1987), the NNE-trending basins in the eastern NCC may be induced by subduction of the Pacific plate underneath the Asian continent (Griffin et al, 1998;Wu et al, 2003;Xu et al, 2004b), which started probably since the end of the Mesozoic (Engebretson et al, 1985). On the other hand, the co-existence of new and old mantle in the eastern NCC is not consistent with the delamination model in which the removal of the entire old mantle is expected (Reisberg et al, 2005).…”

Secular Evolution of Lithospheric Mantle Beneath the Central North China Craton: Implication from Basaltic Rocks and Their Xenoliths

“…The Yinchuan-Hetao and Shanxi-Shaanxi rift systems (Fig. 1b) appeared in the Early Oligocene or Late Eocene, and the major extension developed later in the Neogene and Quaternary (Ye et al, 1987;Ren et al, 2002). The basement of the NCC is composed of amphibolite to granulite facies rocks, such as Archaean grey tonalitic gneisses and greenstones and Paleoproterozoic khondalites and interlayered clastic, and an overlying neritic marine sedimentary cover (Zhao et al, 1999(Zhao et al, , 2001.…”