The Tianshan range, located in the southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB),
represents an excellent natural laboratory for investigating intracontinental deformation. The …

As a typical intracontinental orogenic belt, the Tian Shan range is a natural lab for the
understanding of ongoing intraplate deformation and related geodynamic mechanisms …

The timing of the final welding of the southern Altaids to construct Pangea is a matter of
debate which has led to considerable uncertainty regarding the configuration of northeast …

Abstract The Eastern Tianshan and East Junggar orogenic belts are major constituents of
the southwestern Central Asian Orogenic Belt. This study applies low-temperature …

Paleozoic porphyry copper deposits are generally much less common than their Mesozoic
or Cenozoic counterparts, as they can be completely eroded in rapidly uplifting arcs. There …

Abstract In Central Asia, numerous fragments of planation surfaces are visible within the
present day topography. However, their precise timing of formations is still poorly …

Over the past decades, abundant and well-preserved vertebrate fossils, known as the Urho
Pterosaur Fauna, have been recovered from the Lower Cretaceous Tugulu Group in …

The Tianshan belt forms the southwestern part of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt, and its
current topography is a product of punctuated Meso-Cenozoic intra-continental deformation …

Bogda Shan is a mountain belt located at the eastern extremity of the Chinese Tianshan and
records a complex and debated exhumation history. Previous studies have reported a young …

The Yili block in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB), forms the easternmost part of the
Kazakhstan collage system. Exploring its thermo-tectonic history is important to reconstruct …