[HTML][HTML] Insights into the tectonic evolution of the North China Craton through comparative tectonic analysis: A record of outward growth of Precambrian continents

TM Kusky, A Polat, BF Windley, KC Burke… - Earth-Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
Archean cratons have map patterns and rock associations that are diagnostic of the Wilson
Cycle. The North China Craton (NCC) consists of several distinctly different tectonic units …

Lithotectonic elements of Precambrian basement in the North China Craton: review and tectonic implications

G Zhao, M Zhai - Gondwana Research, 2013 - Elsevier
The North China Craton (NCC) consists of Archean to Paleoproterozoic basement overlain
by Mesoproterozoic to Cenozoic cover. Minor Eoarchean to Mesoarchean basement rocks …

Precambrian geology of China

G Zhao, PA Cawood - Precambrian Research, 2012 - Elsevier
China contains three major Precambrian blocks, the North China, South China and Tarim
cratons, separated and sutured by Phanerozoic orogenic belts. The North China Craton …

Amalgamation of the North China Craton: Key issues and discussion

G Zhao, PA Cawood, S Li, SA Wilde, M Sun… - Precambrian …, 2012 - Elsevier
Geological and geophysical data indicate that the Precambrian basement of the North China
Craton (NCC) formed by amalgamation of a number of micro-continental blocks. The …

Assembling North China Craton within the Columbia supercontinent: the role of double-sided subduction

M Santosh - Precambrian Research, 2010 - Elsevier
An evaluation of recent S-wave receiver functions, S-wave velocities and two versions of P-
wave tomographic images along various transects in the North China Craton provides some …

A Cenozoic record of deep oceanic Zn isotopic composition in ferromanganese crusts

M Zhao, N Planavsky, X Wang, Y Zhang… - American Journal of …, 2023 - ajsonline.org
Water plays a critical role in erosion and sediment transport and this relationship is most
evident in the hyperarid Atacama Desert of Northern Chile, a region characterized by …

Assembly, accretion, and break-up of the Palaeo-Mesoproterozoic Columbia supercontinent: record in the North China Craton revisited

G Zhao, S Li, M Sun, SA Wilde - International Geology Review, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Columbia is a Palaeo-Mesoproterozoic supercontinent that was assembled during global
2.0–1.8 Ga collisional events, underwent long-lived, subduction-related accretion at key …

Single zircon grains record two Paleoproterozoic collisional events in the North China Craton

G Zhao, SA Wilde, J Guo, PA Cawood, M Sun… - Precambrian Research, 2010 - Elsevier
The Western Block of the North China Craton consists of the Yinshan Block in the north and
the Ordos Block in the south which were amalgamated along the east-west trending …

Four phases of Orosirian metamorphism in the north North China Craton (NNCC): Insights into the regional tectonic framework and evolution

C Wei, M Zhai, B Wang - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
The early Precambrian tectonic framework and evolution of the North China Craton (NCC)
remain diversely contentious. This paper presents an overview mainly of the progresses in …

UHT sapphirine granulite metamorphism at 1.93–1.92 Ga caused by gabbronorite intrusions: implications for tectonic evolution of the northern margin of the North …

JH Guo, P Peng, Y Chen, SJ Jiao, BF Windley - Precambrian Research, 2012 - Elsevier
Sapphirine granulites occur in the Daqingshan and **ing areas in the Palaeoproterozoic
Khondalite belt, which divides the Western Block of the North China Craton into the Yinshan …