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Destruction of the North China Craton

Science China Earth Sciences, 2012
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 Chinese scientists through an in-depth and systematic observations, experiments and theoretical analyses, with an emphasis on the spatio-temporal distribution of the NCC destruction, the ...
RiXiang Zhu, YiGang Xu, Guang Zhu, HongFu Zhang, QunKe Xia, TianYu Zheng   +5 more
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Timing of destruction of the North China Craton

Lithos, 2012
Abstract The North China Craton (NCC) is the typical example of destruction of an ancient craton. However, the destruction mechanism and geodynamic controlling factors still remain enigmatic due to controversy on the timing of destruction, which is the key to understanding the destruction processes.
Ri-Xiang Zhu, Jin-Hui Yang, Fu-Yuan Wu
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Destruction of the North China Craton in the Mesozoic

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2019
The North China Craton (NCC) was originally formed by the amalgamation of the eastern and western blocks along an orogenic belt at ∼1.9 Ga. After cratonization, the NCC was essentially stable until the Mesozoic, when intense felsic magmatism and related mineralization, deformation, pull-apart basins, and exhumation of the deep crust widely occurred ...
Fu-Yuan Wu, Jin-Hui Yang, Yi-Gang Xu, Simon A. Wilde, Richard J. Walker   +4 more
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Recycling lower continental crust in the North China craton

Nature, 2004
Foundering of mafic lower continental crust into underlying convecting mantle has been proposed as one means to explain the unusually evolved chemical composition of Earth's continental crust, yet direct evidence of this process has been scarce. Here we report that Late Jurassic high-magnesium andesites, dacites and adakites (siliceous lavas with high ...
Shan, Gao, Roberta L, Rudnick, Hong-Ling, Yuan, Xiao-Ming, Liu, Yong-Sheng, Liu, Wen-Liang, Xu, Wen-Li, Ling, John, Ayers, Xuan-Che, Wang, Qing-Hai, Wang   +9 more
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On- and off- the North China Craton

Ofioliti, 1999
Geophysical data indicates that the lithosphere beneath the North China Craton (NCC) is ca 80 km thick and relatively 'hot' (Teng et al., 1983). Although this is contrary to what one might deduce from the presence of Archaean crustal rocks (ca 2.5-3.0 Ga) and Ordovician diamondiferous kimberlites (Ma and Wu, 1981), it is consistent with the information
Menzies, M. A., Fan, W. M., Zhang, H. F., Jarvis, K. E., Mason, P. R D   +4 more
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Post-cratonization deformation processes and tectonic evolution of the North China Craton

Earth-Science Reviews, 2018
Abstract The timing of events during the tectonic evolution of the North China Craton (NCC) and the east China region is debated. Extension, compression, transpression, and shearing occurred throughout the NCC since ~ 320 Ma. These main structural stages and the temporal evolution of the structural framework and kinematics are summarized.
Yu Wang, Liyun Zhou, Shaofeng Liu, Jinyi Li, Tiannan Yang   +4 more
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Precambrian Evolution of the North China Craton

2014
The North China Craton is one of the oldest cratonic blocks in the world, containing rocks as old as 3.85 billion years. Focusing on Neoarchean mantle plumes and Paleoproterozoic plate tectonics, this book combines the results from modern geological research to provide you with a detailed synthesis of the geology, structure, and evolution of the North ...
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Eastern Ancient Terrane of the North China Craton

Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition, 2016
AbstractBased on the spatial distribution of ancient rocks and zircons, three ancient terranee older than ca. 2.6 Ga have recently been identified in the North China Craton, namely the Eastern, Southern, and Central Ancient Terranee. The Eastern Ancient Terrane is the best studied and understood of the three ancient terranes.
WAN Yusheng, LIU Shoujie, Alfred KRÖNER, DONG Chunyan, XIE Hangqiang, XIE Shiwen, BAI Wenqian, REN Peng, MA Mingzhu, LIU Dunyi   +9 more
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North China and Tarim Cratonic Blocks

2012
In this chapter the Archaean and Palaeoproteroic geology and geodynamic evolution of the North China Craton and the Tarim Craton are described, from published literature. The North China Craton consists of a Western Block and an Eastern Block, separated by the north-trending Trans-North China Orogen, which developed through a series of subduction ...
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On the timing and duration of the destruction of the North China Craton

Science Bulletin, 2009
The timing and duration of the destruction of the North China Craton, which is pivotal to understanding the destruction mechanism and its geodynamic controlling factors, still remain controversial. On the basis of the principles of magma genesis and evolution, first we outline magmatic expressions that can be related to cratonic destruction, then use ...
YiGang Xu, HongYan Li, ChongJin Pang, Bin He   +3 more
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