Destruction of the North China craton

RX Zhu, YG Xu, G Zhu, HF Zhang, QK **a… - Science China Earth …, 2012 - Springer
Abstract A National Science Foundation of China (NSFC) major research project,
Destruction of the North China Craton (NCC), has been carried out in the past few years by …

Mesozoic mafic magmatism in North China: Implications for thinning and destruction of cratonic lithosphere

Y Zheng, Z Xu, Z Zhao, L Dai - Science China Earth Sciences, 2018 - Springer
Abstract The North China Craton (NCC) has been thinned from> 200 km to< 100 km in its
eastern part. The ancient subcontinental lithospheric mantle (SCLM) has been replaced by …

Timing, scale and mechanism of the destruction of the North China Craton

RX Zhu, L Chen, FY Wu, JL Liu - Science China Earth Sciences, 2011 - Springer
Abstract The North China Craton (NCC) is a classical example of ancient destroyed cratons.
Since the initiation of the North China Craton Destruction Project by the National Natural …

Cenozoic tectonic evolution of Asia: A preliminary synthesis

A Yin - Tectonophysics, 2010 - Elsevier
Asia has been a major testing ground for various competing models of continental
deformation due to its relatively well-understood plate boundary conditions in the Cenozoic …

Oceanic plate subduction history in the western Pacific Ocean: Constraint from late Mesozoic evolution of the Tan-Lu Fault Zone

G Zhu, C Liu, C Gu, S Zhang, Y Li, N Su… - Science China Earth …, 2018 - Springer
The NE-to NNE-striking Tan-Lu Fault Zone (TLFZ) is the largest fault zone in East China, and
a typical representative for the circum-Pacific tectonics. Its late Mesozoic evolution resulted …

Thinning and destruction of the lithospheric mantle root beneath the North China Craton: A review

J Liu, R Cai, DG Pearson, JM Scott - Earth-Science Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
It is widely accepted that the lithosphere beneath the eastern portion of the North China
Craton (NCC) has suffered extensive thinning and destruction since the Mesozoic. The …

Recycling deep cratonic lithosphere and generation of intraplate magmatism in the North China Craton

S Gao, RL Rudnick, WL Xu, HL Yuan, YS Liu… - Earth and Planetary …, 2008 - Elsevier
Early Cretaceous alkaline picrites and high-magnesium basalts from the North China craton
provide evidence for recycling of continental lithosphere by density foundering. Both the …

The lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary

KM Fischer, HA Ford, DL Abt… - Annual Review of Earth …, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Seismological models of upper-mantle structure are providing new constraints on the
physical and chemical properties that differentiate the lithosphere from the asthenosphere. A …

Seismic evidence for significant lateral variations in lithospheric thickness beneath the central and western North China Craton

L Chen, C Cheng, Z Wei - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2009 - Elsevier
We have migrated teleseismic S-receiver functions to construct detailed lithospheric
structure images that cover the three constituent parts of the North China Craton (NCC). Our …

The elusive lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary (LAB) beneath cratons

DW Eaton, F Darbyshire, RL Evans, H Grütter… - Lithos, 2009 - Elsevier
The lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary (LAB) is a first-order structural discontinuity that
accommodates differential motion between tectonic plates and the underlying mantle …