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Journal: GSA Bulletin
Published: 13 January 2025
GSA Bulletin (2025) 137 (5-6): 2661–2681.
... constitutes the southernmost part of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt. U-Pb dating of the eclogite indicates a Neoproterozoic metamorphic age of 887 ± 7 Ma and an Ordovician age of 461 ± 15 Ma for the eclogite-facies metamorphism. Multi-proxy (zircon, monazite, rutile, and apatite) U/Th-Pb geochronology...
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Journal: Economic Geology
Published: 01 December 2022
Economic Geology (2022) 117 (8): 1779–1789.
...Nannan Zhou; Guoqiang Xue; Hai Li; Wen Chen; Kangxin Lei Abstract Geologic and geochemical results from the Ni-Cu deposits of the Central Asian orogenic belt show that carbon from carbonaceous sediments was incorporated in the magma that formed the Ni-Cu deposit. Thus, the presence of an Ni-Cu...
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Journal Article
Published: 28 October 2020
Geological Magazine (2021) 158 (4): 656–672.
...Zhendong Wang; Yuanyuan Zhang; Xiangjiang Yu; Zhaojie Guo Abstract The Duobagou Permian–Triassic granites of the Dunhuang orogenic belt are of great importance in understanding the tectonic evolution of the southernmost Central Asian Orogenic Belt. LA-ICP-MS U–Pb zircon ages indicate that Permian...
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Journal: GSA Bulletin
Published: 24 February 2025
GSA Bulletin (2025)
...Dong Fu; Qunye Qian; Bo Huang The Solonker suture zone in the southeastern Central Asian Orogenic Belt marks the final closure of the Paleo-Asian Ocean between the Inner Mongolia and North China segments. However, the terminal evolutionary processes of the Paleo-Asian Ocean along the Solonker...
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Journal: GSA Bulletin
Published: 12 December 2024
GSA Bulletin (2025) 137 (5-6): 2173–2190.
... evolution. The geodynamic evolution of the southeastern segment of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB) during the Late Permian–Early Triassic remains unclear, including oceanic ridge subduction, slab break-off, slab roll-back, and post-collision extension. To address these disputes, we carried out...
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Journal: GSA Bulletin
Published: 15 October 2024
GSA Bulletin (2025) 137 (3-4): 1355–1378.
...Qiang Gao; Mao-Qiang Yan; Jan Marten Huizenga; Lian-Xin Lai; Bin Li; Hong-Hong Zeng; Robert Moritz; Jun-Hao Wei Abstract The Central Asian orogenic belt is considered to be the largest Phanerozoic accretive orogenic belt on Earth. The late Paleozoic magmatic rocks in central Inner Mongolia...
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Journal: GSA Bulletin
Published: 09 October 2024
GSA Bulletin (2025) 137 (3-4): 1254–1266.
...Xiaosong Xiong; Hongqiang Li; Xuanhua Chen; Runwu Li; Jianbo Zhou; Rui Gao; Jennifer D. Eccles Abstract The crustal and upper mantle structure of the Beishan orogenic collage, which serves as the southern part of the middle Central Asian Orogenic Belt, provides crucial insights into the history...
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Journal Article
Published: 19 October 2023
Geological Magazine (2023) 160 (8): 1624–1648.
... in South Kazakhstan (Koyandy complex) and the Chu-Kendyktas terrane in the North Tien Shan of Kyrgyzstan (Aktyuz, Kemin and Kokdzhon complexes) within the SW part of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt. HP quartz–feldspar lithologies of the Koyandy complex consist of migmatized kyanite-bearing garnet–mica...
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Series: Geological Society, London, Special Publications
Published: 22 April 2024
DOI: 10.1144/SP542-2022-346
EISBN: 9781786206398
... Abstract The Beishan Orogen contains the youngest suture in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt and is vital to understanding its terminal collision history and closure of the last vestiges of the Palaeo-Asian Ocean. Multidisciplinary evidence is provided for a close temporal and spatial linkage...
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Journal: GSA Bulletin
Published: 11 April 2022
GSA Bulletin (2023) 135 (1-2): 18–28.
...Meng-Meng Cui; Ben-Xun Su; Jing Wang; Yong Wu; Anton Kutyrev Abstract The early-stage subduction records of the Paleo-Asian ocean are poorly preserved in the eastern segment of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB), which hinders constraints on the evolution of the whole CAOB. This study presents...
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Journal: GSA Bulletin
Published: 04 October 2023
GSA Bulletin (2024) 136 (5-6): 2137–2156.
...Xiaobo Zhao; Reimar Seltmann; Chunji Xue; Qing Sun Abstract To understand the orogenic cyclicity that built the northern Yili magmatic arc in the southern Balhkash-Yili arc of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt, we synthesize its tectono-magmatic processes using new and existing U-Pb geochronological...
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Journal: GSA Bulletin
Published: 09 June 2020
GSA Bulletin (2021) 133 (1-2): 253–276.
...Dongfang Song; Wenjiao Xiao; Brian F. Windley; Chunming Han Abstract The Central Asian Orogenic Belt has long been considered the largest Phanerozoic accretionary orogen in the world; it developed through the subduction and final closure of the Paleo–Asian Ocean. However, the architecture...
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Journal Article
Published: 03 February 2016
Geological Magazine (2017) 154 (2): 265–285.
... coevally with the assembly of various microcontinental blocks against the Siberian craton at c. 300–250 Ma, synchronous with amalgamation of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB) on the northern side of the Liuyuan Rift. These events were also broadly synchronous with formation of the global...
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Journal: GSA Bulletin
Published: 01 September 2014
GSA Bulletin (2014) 126 (9-10): 1275–1300.
...Shuan-Hong Zhang; Yue Zhao; Hao Ye; Jian-Min Liu; Zhao-Chu Hu Abstract Recent results show that evolution of the huge Central Asian orogenic belt can be explained in terms of southwest Pacific–style accretion of arcs and microcontinents. A better understanding of the origin and evolution of arcs...
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Journal Article
Published: 27 November 2023
Journal of the Geological Society (2023) 180 (6): jgs2023-091.
... of the magmatic and tectonic origins of ophiolitic slivers exposed in the western part of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB). The geology of the western part of the CAOB is characterized by the presence of Paleozoic fold-and-thrust belts in Kazakhstan and Northwestern China that include island-arc...
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Journal: GSA Bulletin
Published: 21 June 2021
GSA Bulletin (2022) 134 (3-4): 629–657.
...Lingling Yuan; Xiaohui Zhang; Zhili Yang Abstract Updating magmatic profile in crucial constituent terranes across the Central Asian Orogenic Belt presents a key to chronicling the timeline of prolonged accretionary processes and termination of the Paleo-Asian Ocean in the northern China–southern...
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Journal Article
Journal: Geology
Published: 02 June 2025
Geology (2025)
... considering the case of the Tarim mantle plume and the mafic-ultramafic intrusions in the southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB). This mantle plume, which arrived beneath the Tarim craton, one of the smaller cratons on Earth, lasted from 300 Ma to 270 Ma with peaks at 290 Ma and 278 Ma. Synchronously...
Journal Article
Journal: GSA Bulletin
Published: 02 June 2025
GSA Bulletin (2025)
...Zhenyi Wang; Jin Zhang; Junfeng Qu; Beihang Zhang; Heng Zhao; Jianfeng Liu; Chunjiao Wu; Yingfu Chen; Yiping Zhang; Mudong Qiao; Yaqi Yang; Yukun Tian The microcontinents remaining in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB) somewhat defined the architecture of the orogen, but not knowing whether...
Journal Article
Published: 11 February 2025
Journal of the Geological Society (2025) 182 (3): jgs2024-202.
...Hailin Wu; Wenbin Zhu; Rongfeng Ge; Lingsen Zeng Early Paleozoic arc magmas are prominent along the northern margin of the Tarim–North China collage in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt, yet their petrogenesis and tectonic implications remain unclear. This study focuses on mafic arc rocks from...
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Journal Article
Journal: GSA Bulletin
Published: 30 January 2025
GSA Bulletin (2025) 137 (5-6): 2747–2764.
... and their evolution in southern West-East Junggar of the southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt by integrating structural analysis of geological relationships, and geophysical and geochemical features, to provide insights into the changes an orogenic architecture undergoes. Late Silurian–Early Devonian adakitic rocks...
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