A review of the western part of the Altaids: a key to understanding the architecture of accretionary orogens

W **ao, B Huang, C Han, S Sun, J Li - Gondwana Research, 2010‏ - Elsevier
The Altaids is one of the largest accretionary collages in the world, and the tectonic styles of
the accretionary processes have been interpreted in several ways, including as an …

Early Paleozoic polyphase metamorphism in northern Tibet, China

J Zhang, S Yu, CG Mattinson - Gondwana Research, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The Altun–Qilian–Kunlun orogenic system in the northern Tibetan Plateau is
considered as the northernmost orogenic collage of the proto-Tethyan domain. Early …

End-Permian to mid-Triassic termination of the accretionary processes of the southern Altaids: implications for the geodynamic evolution, Phanerozoic continental …

WJ **ao, BF Windley, BC Huang, CM Han… - International Journal of …, 2009‏ - Springer
The Altaids is one of the largest accretionary orogenic collages in the world with the highest
rate of Phanerozoic continental growth and significant metallogenic importance. It is widely …

Middle Cambrian to Permian subduction-related accretionary orogenesis of Northern **njiang, NW China: implications for the tectonic evolution of central Asia

W **ao, C Han, C Yuan, M Sun, S Lin, H Chen… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2008‏ - Elsevier
Middle-Cambrian to Permian subduction-related records are widely distributed in Northern
**njiang which can be grouped into the Chinese Altay–East Junggar–Eastern Tien Shan …

Tectonic evolution of the South Tianshan orogen and adjacent regions, NW China: geochemical and age constraints of granitoid rocks

J Gao, L Long, R Klemd, Q Qian, D Liu, X **ong… - International Journal of …, 2009‏ - Springer
Geochemical and geochronological evidence was obtained from granitoids of the South
Tianshan orogen and adjacent regions, which consist of three individual tectonic domains …

Early Paleozoic to Devonian multiple-accretionary model for the Qilian Shan, NW China

W **ao, BF Windley, Y Yong, Z Yan, C Yuan… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2009‏ - Elsevier
The Qilian Shan, located in the northern Tibetan Plateau of NW China, has an excellent
record of early to middle Paleozoic subduction–accretion that resulted from convergence …

The collision between the Yili and Tarim blocks of the Southwestern Altaids: geochemical and age constraints of a leucogranite dike crosscutting the HP–LT …

J Gao, R Klemd, Q Qian, X Zhang, J Li, T Jiang, Y Yang - Tectonophysics, 2011‏ - Elsevier
A ca. 600m-long, 0.5–20m-wide NW–SE trending granite dike crosscuts the high pressure–
low temperature (HP–LT) Tianshan metamorphic belt, the foliation of which is parallel to the …

Petrology, Sr–Nd–Hf isotopic geochemistry and zircon chronology of the Late Palaeozoic volcanic rocks in the southwestern Tianshan Mountains, **njiang, NW China

Y Zhu, X Guo, B Song, L Zhang… - Journal of the …, 2009‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Late Palaeozoic volcanic rocks, mainly consisting of basalt, trachyte, trachy-andesite,
andesite and rhyolite, widely distributed in the southwestern Tianshan Mountains, have …

Granites in the Sawuer region of the west Junggar, **njiang Province, China: geochronological and geochemical characteristics and their geodynamic significance

T Zhou, F Yuan, Y Fan, D Zhang, D Cooke, G Zhao - Lithos, 2008‏ - Elsevier
The Sawuer region is located in the west Junggar, Jimunai County of Altay district and
Hefeng County of Tacheng district, **njiang Autonomous Region, in northwest China. In the …

Evolution of calc-alkaline to alkaline magmatism through Carboniferous convergence to Permian transcurrent tectonics, western Chinese Tianshan

B Wang, D Cluzel, L Shu, M Faure, J Charvet… - International Journal of …, 2009‏ - Springer
Continuous magmatic activity occurred in the western Chinese Tianshan, Central Asia, from
the Carboniferous to the Permian, ie before and after the Late Carboniferous amalgamation …