The microcontinental blocks in the CAOB include the combined NE China blocks
(comprising the Erguna, **ng'an, Songliao and Jimusi-Khanka blocks) in the eastern …

Abstract The Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB) evolved through complex closure of the
Paleo-Asian Ocean from the Neoproterozoic to the late Phanerozoic. This caused the …

Northeast (NE) China is characterized by immense volumes of granitic rocks, exposed over
an area of∼ 200,000 km2. Although the precise geochronological framework was not clear …

The Altaids, one of the largest and long-lived accretionary orogens in the world, developed
from ca. 600Ma to 250Ma by the multiple accretions of terranes of different origin, chiefly …

Tungsten and Sn deposits in China are widely distributed in the South China block (ie,
Yangtze craton-Cathaysian block), Himalaya, Tibetan, Sanjiang, Kunlun, Qilian, Qinling …

The basement rocks in parts of NE China constitute a khondalitic sequence of sillimanite-
and garnet-bearing gneisses, hornblende–plagioclase gneiss and various felsic …

The location and tectonic nature of the Solonker Suture in East Asia and hence the late
Palaeozoic to early Mesozoic closure of the Palaeo-Asian Ocean have notoriously been …

The paper reviews geological, geochronological and geochemical data from the Late
Paleozoic–Mesozoic magmatic complexes of the Siberian continent north of the Mongol …

The Heilongjiang Complex is a sequence of high-pressure metamorphic rocks, located
along the suture zone that separates the Jiamusi–Khanka (–Bureya) and Songliao …

The Asian continent consists of many continental blocks that assembled during the
Phanerozoic, accompanied by widespread granitoids. By compiling a series of digital maps …