Abstract The South China Block is situated in the Eastern Asian margin. Since the
Neoproterozoic, its tectonic evolution was constrained by successive consumption-closure …

As a complex paleo-ocean located between the Tarim-North China and the
Sibumasu/Baoshan blocks, the Proto-Tethys Ocean was opened from the rifting of the …

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 …

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 …

Abstract The Jiangnan Orogen is considered as a continent–continent collisional belt
resulting from the closure of a Meso-Neoproterozoic ocean separating the southeastern …

From the formation of Rodinia at the end of the Mesoproterozoic to the commencement of
Pangea breakup at the end of the Paleozoic, the South China craton first formed and then …

Phanerozoic primary tin and tungsten deposits and lithium–cesium–tantalum (LCT) type
pegmatites define discontinuous belts that reach several thousand kilometers length …

Abstract The early Paleozoic Wuyi-Yunkai orogen in South China is a major orogenic belt in
East Asia that formed at a similar time as the classic Caledonian orogeny in Europe. Despite …

Laser-ablation ICP mass-spectroscopy has been used to investigate the geochemistry of
sphalerite in a range of nine Zn–Pb deposits in South China. The deposits, which are of …

An overview is presented for the formation and evolution of Precambrian continental
lithosphere in South China. This is primarily based on an integrated study of zircon U–Pb …