Late Archean–Paleoproterozoic plate tectonics along the northern margin of the North China craton

Balancing the force budget of plate tectonics along the Nazca/South America plate margin

Late Mesozoic and Cenozoic thermotectonic evolution along a transect from the north China craton through the Qinling orogen into the Yangtze craton, central China

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Paleoproterozoic high-pressure metamorphism in the northern North China Craton and implications for the Nuna supercontinent

The connection between the North China Craton (NCC) and contiguous cratons is important for the configuration of the Nuna supercontinent. Here we document a new Paleoproterozoic high-pressure (HP) complex dominated by garnet websterite on the northern margin of the NCC. The peak metamorphism of the garnet websterite was after ∼1.90 Ga when it was subducted to eclogite facies at ∼2.4 GPa, then e...

Thrusting, folding and stratigraphy of the Ghaap Group along the southwestern margin of the Kaapvaal Craton

P.G. Eriksson, D. Twist, C.P. Snyman and L. Burger 454 The setting of mineralization in a portion of the Eersteling goldfield, Pietersburg granite-greenstone terrane, South Africa C.L. Byron and J.M. Barton 463 Siesmicity and plate boundary evolution in southeastern Africa CJ.HHartnady 473 Geology, geochemistry and mineralisation of the Erongo Volcanic Complex, Namibia F. Pirajno 485 Clay miner...

Late Mesozoic extensional tectonics in the North China block: a crustal response to subcontinental mantle removal?

– In the North China block, Cretaceous extensional tectonics is expressed by numerous syntectonic plutons bounded by ductile normal faults and several metamorphic core complexes (MCC). Cretaceous half-grabens filled by continental terrigenous deposits are widespread. The examples of MCC from South Liaoning Peninsula, Yiwulüshan, Hohhot as well as the Yunmengshan syntectonic pluton spread along ...