Reconstructing South China in phanerozoic and precambrian supercontinents

PA Cawood, G Zhao, J Yao, W Wang, Y Xu… - Earth-Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
The history of the South China Craton and the constituent Yangtze and Cathaysia blocks are
directly linked to Earth's Phanerozoic and Precambrian record of supercontinent assembly …

Deconstructing South China and consequences for reconstructing Nuna and Rodinia

PA Cawood, W Wang, T Zhao, Y Xu, JA Mulder… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Contrasting models for internal and external locations of South China within the Nuna and
Rodinia supercontinents can be resolved when the current lithotectonic associations of …

Neoproterozoic magmatism in the western and northern margins of the Yangtze Block (South China) controlled by slab subduction and subduction-transform-edge …

JH Zhao, QW Li, H Liu, W Wang - Earth-Science Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The South China Craton consists of the Yangtze and Cathaysia blocks that were
welded together along the Jiangnan Fold Belt in the Neoproterozoic. The Neoproterozoic …

Neoproterozoic tectonic evolution and proto-basin of the Yangtze Block, China

Y Dong, B Hui, S Sun, D He, J Sun, F Zhang… - Earth-Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
The Neoproterozoic assembly and break-up of Rodinia have not only caused
reconfiguration of the global tectonic architecture of oceans and continents, but also led to …

Reviews and new metallogenic models of mineral deposits in South China: An introduction

RZ Hu, WT Chen, DR Xu, MF Zhou - Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract In South China, the Yangtze and Cathaysia blocks were welded together along the
Jiangnan Fold Belt during Neoproterozoic time (∼ 830 Ma). Large-scale mineralization in …

Proterozoic Fe–Cu metallogeny and supercontinental cycles of the southwestern Yangtze Block, southern China and northern Vietnam

MF Zhou, XF Zhao, WT Chen, XC Li, W Wang… - Earth-Science …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The Yangtze Block has a Paleoproterozoic and Archean basement and was
traditionally thought to have been cratonized after the Neoproterozoic. Recent studies reveal …

A Paleoproterozoic ophiolitic mélange, Yangtze craton, South China: Evidence for Paleoproterozoic suturing and microcontinent amalgamation

Q Han, S Peng, T Kusky, A Polat, X Jiang, Y Cen… - Precambrian …, 2017 - Elsevier
We document for the first time the presence of a Paleoproterozoic ophiolitic mélange in the
Archean–Paleoproterozoic Kongling Complex in the northern Huangling Dome, Yangtze …

Late Paleoproterozoic to Mesoproterozoic rift successions in SW China: implication for the Yangtze Block–North Australia–Northwest Laurentia connection in the …

W Wang, MF Zhou, XF Zhao, WT Chen, DP Yan - Sedimentary Geology, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The late Paleoproterozoic to Mesoproterozoic Dongchuan Group in the
southwestern Yangtze Block formed in a series of fault-controlled, rift-related basins …

Geochemical and detrital zircon age constraints on Meso-to Neoproterozoic sedimentary basins in the southern Yangtze Block: Implications on Proterozoic …

L Sun, W Wang, MK Pandit, G Lu, E Xue, B Huang… - Precambrian …, 2022 - Elsevier
The late Mesoproterozoic to early Neoproterozoic sedimentary sequences in the
southwestern Yangtze Block, represented by the Julin, Huili, and Kunyang groups, provide …

An Andean-type arc system in Rodinia constrained by the Neoproterozoic Shimian ophiolite in South China

JH Zhao, PD Asimow, MF Zhou, J Zhang, DP Yan… - Precambrian …, 2017 - Elsevier
The configuration of the supercontinent Rodinia has long been a matter of debate; the key
controversy is the position of South China in Rodinia. We report an incomplete …