Cretaceous tectonic evolution of South China: A preliminary synthesis

J Li, Y Zhang, S Dong, ST Johnston - Earth-Science Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
The Cretaceous tectonic evolution of South China is characterized by widespread
extensional basin and dome generation, voluminous magma intrusion/eruption and …

Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous continental convergence and intracontinental orogenesis in East Asia: A synthesis of the Yanshan Revolution

S Dong, Y Zhang, F Zhang, J Cui, X Chen… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2015 - Elsevier
The basic tectonic framework of continental East Asia was produced by a series of nearly
contemporaneous orogenic events in the late Middle Jurassic to Early Cretaceous …

The Yanshan orogeny and late Mesozoic multi-plate convergence in East Asia—Commemorating 90th years of the “Yanshan Orogeny”

S Dong, Y Zhang, H Li, W Shi, H Xue, J Li… - Science China Earth …, 2018 - Springer
The Yanshan movement/orogeny has been proposed for 90 years, which is of special
significance in the history of geological research in China. This study conducted a review by …

Multi-stage tectonics and metallogeny associated with Phanerozoic evolution of the South China Block: A holistic perspective from the Youjiang Basin

Q Wang, L Yang, X Xu, M Santosh, Y Wang… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Youjiang Basin in the western part of the South China Block (SCB), preserves
the records of the tectonic history from Tethyan, through Paleo-Pacific to Tibetan domains …

Cretaceous episodic extension in the south China block, east Asia: Evidence from the Yuechengling massif of central south China

Y Chu, W Lin, M Faure, Z Xue, W Ji, Z Feng - Tectonics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In the Cretaceous, the subduction of the Izanagi/Paleo‐Pacific plates beneath the South
China Block (SCB) created a wide back‐arc domain characterized by numerous extensional …

Genetic types, mineralization styles, and geodynamic settings of Mesozoic tungsten deposits in South China

WW Zhao, MF Zhou, YHM Li, Z Zhao, JF Gao - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2017 - Elsevier
South China hosts the most abundant and largest tungsten (W) deposits in the world, being
a famous W metallogenic region. Located at the eastern part of the South China Block …

Building Southeast China in the late Mesozoic: Insights from alternating episodes of shortening and extension along the Lianhuashan fault zone

J Li, PA Cawood, L Ratschbacher, Y Zhang… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Understanding the Mesozoic intraplate structural response of South China inboard of the
Paleo-Pacific-South China convergent margin is a key issue in unravelling the continental …

Gold mineralization in the Jiangnan Orogenic Belt of South China: Geological, geochemical and geochronological characteristics, ore deposit-type and geodynamic …

D Xu, T Deng, G Chi, Z Wang, F Zou, J Zhang… - Ore Geology Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
Located in the southeastern margin of the Yangtze Block and generally interpreted as the
Neoproterozoic collisional product of the Yangtze with the Cathaysia Blocks of South China …

Late triassic to middle Jurassic tectonic evolution of the South China block: geodynamic transition from the paleo-tethys to the paleo-pacific regimes

X Xu - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Multi-plate convergence around a nuclear block and the geodynamic transition occurred
generally after the onset of plate tectonics. Late Triassic to Middle Jurassic geodynamics of …

New insights into Phanerozoic tectonics of south China: Part 1, polyphase deformation in the Jiuling and Lianyunshan domains of the central Jiangnan Orogen

J Li, S Dong, Y Zhang, G Zhao… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The central Jiangnan Orogen, genetically formed by the Proterozoic Yangtze‐
Cathaysia collision, presents as a composite structural feature in the Phanerozoic with …