Final amalgamation of the Tianshan and Junggar orogenic collage in the southwestern Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Constraints on the closure of the Paleo-Asian …

Y Han, G Zhao - Earth-Science Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Tianshan and Junggar orogenic collage occupies the southwestern part of the
Central Asian Orogenic Belt and was assembled by collision/accretion of several continental …

No excessive crustal growth in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Further evidence from field relationships and isotopic data

A Kroener, V Kovach, D Alexeiev, KL Wang, J Wong… - Gondwana …, 2017 - Elsevier
We provide new field observations and isotopic data for key areas of the Central Asian
Orogenic Belt (CAOB), reiterating our previous assessment that no excessive crustal growth …

Arc-continent collisions in the tropics set Earth's climate state

FA Macdonald, NL Swanson-Hysell, Y Park, L Lisiecki… - Science, 2019 - science.org
On multimillion-year time scales, Earth has experienced warm ice-free and cold glacial
climates, but it is unknown whether transitions between these background climate states …

[HTML][HTML] Early Paleozoic tectonics of Asia: Towards a full-plate model

M Domeier - Geoscience Frontiers, 2018 - Elsevier
Asia is key to a richer understanding of many important lithospheric processes such as
crustal growth, continental evolution and orogenesis. But to properly decipher the secrets …

Early Paleozoic orogenesis along Gondwana's northern margin constrained by provenance data from South China

Y Xu, PA Cawood, Y Du, H Huang, X Wang - Tectonophysics, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The Cambrian–Ordovician boundary unconformity in the southern part of the South
China Craton is spatially and temporally related to coeval orogenic activity along the Indian …

Spatial–temporal framework for the closure of the Junggar Ocean in central Asia: New SIMS zircon U–Pb ages of the ophiolitic mélange and collisional igneous rocks …

XW Xu, N Jiang, XH Li, C Wu, X Qu, G Zhou… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2015 - Elsevier
The closure time of the Junggar Ocean is one of the hottest topics surrounding the tectonic
evolution of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB). This paper reports SIMS zircon U–Pb …

Closure time of the Junggar‐Balkhash Ocean: Constraints from Late Paleozoic volcano‐sedimentary sequences in the Barleik Mountains, West Junggar, NW China

B Liu, BF Han, JF Chen, R Ren, B Zheng, ZZ Wang… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Junggar‐Balkhash Ocean was a major branch of the southern Paleo‐Asian
Ocean. The timing of its closure is important for understanding the history of the Central …

Middle Paleozoic initial amalgamation and crustal growth in the West Junggar (NW China): Constraints from geochronology, geochemistry and Sr–Nd–Hf–Os isotopes …

JF Chen, BF Han, L Zhang, Z Xu, JL Liu, WJ Qu… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2015 - Elsevier
As one of the important parts of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt, the Early–Middle Paleozoic
subduction–accretion history of the West Junggar is still needed to be further constrained …

A new model for the Kellwasser Anoxia Events (Late Devonian): Shallow water anoxia in an open oceanic setting in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt

SK Carmichael, JA Waters, TJ Suttner, E Kido… - Palaeogeography …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The Frasnian–Famennian mass extinction event devastated tropical marine
ecosystems and ranks in the top six in taxonomic and ecological severity. The close …

Detrital zircon ages of Proterozoic meta-sedimentary rocks and Paleozoic sedimentary cover of the northern Yili Block: Implications for the tectonics of microcontinents …

H Liu, B Wang, L Shu, B Jahn, Y Lizuka - Precambrian Research, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB) is one of the largest accretionary orogens
in the world. It was formed mainly by amalgamation of island arcs, accretionary wedges and …