Teleseismic tomography across the Chinese Tien Shan shows that seismic wave speeds in the lithosphere beneath central Tien Shan are high and therefore the lithosphere is not weaker than that beneath the adjacent undeformed Tarim and Junggar basins. There is evidence for significant velocity contrasts within the lithosphere that are presumably inherited from the Palaeozoic collision history. The...

The Yangshan gold belt is renowned for its igneous rock formations, particularly dykes that form in tectonically weak zones. Some of these formations exhibit a close spatial relationship with mineralization, and tiny portion the granitic serve as ore bodies by themselves. In order to investigate nature their association we conducted comprehensive study consisting zircon U-Pb chronology, petrogr...

During the late Mesozoic, East Asian continent underwent a complex tectonic history due to multiple episodes of plate convergence. How crust responds convergence in North China Craton (NCC) remains unclear. Here we undertook field geological investigations and fault-slip vectors analysis Shangyi Basin western Yanshan fold thrust belt, northern margin NCC. Combined with new geochronological data...

Tectonic setting exerts fi rst-order control on basin formation as refl ected in basin subsidence history. While our approach ignores the effects of fl exural loading and eustatic sea-level change, consistency of backstripped subsidence histories (i.e., with local loading effects of sediment removed) suggests consistent tectonic driving mechanisms in each tectonic setting, with the possible exc...