Accretionary processes and metallogenesis of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Advances and perspectives

Ophiolites of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Geochemical and petrological characterization and tectonic settings

(2019) Harald Furnes et al.   Geoscience Frontiers

The Tectonics of the Altaids: Crustal Growth During the Construction of the Continental Lithosphere of Central Asia Between ∼750 and ∼130 Ma Ago

(2018) A.M. Celâl Şengör et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

The origin and crustal evolution of microcontinents in the Beishan orogen of the southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt

(2018) Zhen-Yu He et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Ridge subduction and slab windows in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Tectonic implications for the evolution of an accretionary orogen

(2018) Brian F. Windley et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Accreted seamounts in North Tianshan, NW China: Implications for the evolution of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt

(2018) Gaoxue Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Collision of the Tacheng block with the Mayile-Barleik-Tangbale accretionary complex in Western Junggar, NW China: Implication for Early-Middle Paleozoic architecture of the western Altaids

(2018) Ji'en Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

A Silurian-early Devonian slab window in the southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Evidence from high-Mg diorites, adakites and granitoids in the western Central Beishan region, NW China

(2018) Rongguo Zheng et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Geochronology and geochemistry of Mesozoic intrusive rocks in the Xing'an Massif of NE China: Implications for the evolution and spatial extent of the Mongol–Okhotsk tectonic regime

(2018) Yu Li et al.   LITHOS

Final Subduction Processes of the Paleo-Asian Ocean in the Alxa Tectonic Belt (NW China): Constraints From Field and Chronological Data of Permian Arc-Related Volcano-Sedimentary Rocks

(2018) Dongfang Song et al.   TECTONICS

Mesoproterozoic juvenile crust in microcontinents of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt: evidence from oxygen and hafnium isotopes in zircon

(2018) Zhen-Yu He et al.   Scientific Reports

Where and when did the Paleo-Asian ocean form?

(2018) Bo Wan et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Structural and geochronological constraints on Devonian supra-subduction tectonic switching and Permian collisional dynamics in the Chinese Altai, central Asia

(2018) Y. D. Jiang et al.   TECTONICS

Zircon U-Pb geochronology and geochemistry of Devonian plagiogranites in the Kuerti area of southern Chinese Altay, northwest China: Petrogenesis and tectonic evolution of late Paleozoic ophiolites

(2017) Xiao-Ming Shen et al.   GEOLOGICAL JOURNAL

Balkatach hypothesis: A new model for the evolution of the Pacific, Tethyan, and Paleo-Asian oceanic domains

(2017) Andrew V. Zuza et al.   Geosphere

A review of the Paleozoic tectonics in the eastern part of Central Asian Orogenic Belt

(2017) Yongjiang Liu et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Geochemical signature and rock associations of ocean ridge-subduction: Evidence from the Karamaili Paleo-Asian ophiolite in east Junggar, NW China

(2017) Xijun Liu et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Intra-oceanic arcs of the Paleo-Asian Ocean

(2017) Inna Safonova et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Permo–Triassic granitoids of the Xing’an–Mongolia segment of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt, Northeast China: age, composition, and tectonic implications

(2017) Qiu-Ming Pei et al.   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

Ages, geochemistry and tectonic implications of the Cambrian igneous rocks in the northern Great Xing’an Range, NE China

(2017) Zhiqiang Feng et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Ages and origin of felsic rocks from the Eastern Erenhot ophiolitic complex, southeastern Central Asian Orogenic Belt, Inner Mongolia China

(2017) Jinfu Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Transformation from Paleo-Asian Ocean closure to Paleo-Pacific subduction: New constraints from granitoids in the eastern Jilin–Heilongjiang Belt, NE China

(2017) Xing-Hua Ma et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Zircon ages, geochemistry and Nd isotopic systematics for the Palaeoproterozoic 2.3–1.8 Ga Kuilyu Complex, East Kyrgyzstan – The oldest continental basement fragment in the Tianshan orogenic belt

(2017) A. Kröner et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

The Mesozoic accretionary complex in Northeast China: Evidence for the accretion history of Paleo-Pacific subduction

(2017) Jian-Bo Zhou et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Large-scale porphyry-type mineralization in the Central Asian metallogenic domain: A review

(2017) Jun Gao et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Continental origin of the Gubaoquan eclogite and implications for evolution of the Beishan Orogen, Central Asian Orogenic Belt, NW China

(2017) Wanchese M. Saktura et al.   LITHOS

Nature and assembly of microcontinental blocks within the Paleo-Asian Ocean

(2017) Jian-Bo Zhou et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Late Paleozoic to early Triassic multiple roll-back and oroclinal bending of the Mongolia collage in Central Asia

(2017) Wenjiao Xiao et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Age and geochemistry of the Zhaheba ophiolite complex in eastern Junggar of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB): implications for the accretion process of the Junggar terrane

(2016) XIAN-TAO YE et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

Middle Paleozoic mafic magmatism and ocean plate stratigraphy of the South Tianshan, Kyrgyzstan

(2016) I. Safonova et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Structures and detrital zircon ages of the Devonian–Permian Tarbagatay accretionary complex in west Junggar, China: imbricated ocean plate stratigraphy and implications for amalgamation of the CAOB

(2016) Yichao Chen et al.   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

Oblique wedge extrusion of UHP/HP complexes in the Late Triassic: structural analysis and zircon ages of the Atbashi Complex, South Tianshan, Kyrgyzstan

(2016) Miao Sang et al.   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

High-temperature metamorphism of the Yushugou ophiolitic slice: Late Devonian subduction of seamount and mid-oceanic ridge in the South Tianshan orogen

(2016) Li Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

High-alumina basalts from the Bogda Mountains suggest an arc setting for Chinese Northern Tianshan during the Late Carboniferous

(2016) Wei Xie et al.   LITHOS

Solonker ophiolite in Inner Mongolia, China: A late Permian continental margin-type ophiolite

(2016) Zhi-wen Luo et al.   LITHOS

Metamorphic complexes in accretionary orogens: Insights from the Beishan collage, southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt

(2016) Dongfang Song et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Mantle Subduction and Uplift of Intracontinental Mountains: A Case Study from the Chinese Tianshan Mountains within Eurasia

(2016) Jinyi Li et al.   Scientific Reports

The Architecture, Chemistry, and Evolution of Continental Magmatic Arcs

(2015) Mihai N. Ducea et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

A Tale of Amalgamation of Three Permo-Triassic Collage Systems in Central Asia: Oroclines, Sutures, and Terminal Accretion

(2015) Wenjiao Xiao et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

OIB-type rocks within West Junggar ophiolitic mélanges: Evidence for the accretion of seamounts

(2015) Gaoxue Yang et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Metamorphic evolution of (ultra)-high-pressure subduction-related transient crust in the South Tianshan Orogen (Central Asian Orogenic Belt): Geodynamic implications

(2015) Reiner Klemd et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

The boundary between the Central Asian Orogenic belt and Tethyan tectonic domain deduced from Pb isotopic data

(2015) Xijun Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

U–Pb age and Hf isotopic data of detrital zircons from the Devonian and Carboniferous sandstones in Yimin area, NE China: New evidences to the collision timing between the Xing’an and Erguna blocks in eastern segment of Central Asian Orogenic Belt

(2015) Guoqing Han et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Detrital zircon ages of the Jiageda and Woduhe formations: Constrains on the tectonic attribute of the Xing’ an terrane in the central Great Xing’ an Range, NE China

(2015) Fanghua Cui et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Blueschist metamorphism and its tectonic implication of Late Paleozoic–Early Mesozoic metabasites in the mélange zones, central Inner Mongolia, China

(2015) Jinrui Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Timing and evolution of Jurassic–Cretaceous granitoid magmatisms in the Mongol–Okhotsk belt and adjacent areas, NE Asia: Implications for transition from contractional crustal thickening to extensional thinning and geodynamic settings

(2015) Tao Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Geochemistry and U–Pb zircon dating of the Toudaoqiao blueschists in the Great Xing’an Range, northeast China, and tectonic implications

(2015) Jian-Bo Zhou et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Age, protoliths and tectonic implications of the Toudaoqiao blueschist, Inner Mongolia, China

(2015) Laicheng Miao et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Record of assembly and breakup of Rodinia in the Southwestern Altaids: Evidence from Neoproterozoic magmatism in the Chinese Western Tianshan Orogen

(2015) Jun Gao et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Distinct deformational history of two contrasting tectonic domains in the Chinese Altai: Their significance in understanding accretionary orogenic process

(2015) Jian Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY

A Paleozoic Japan-type subduction-accretion system in the Beishan orogenic collage, southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt

(2015) Dongfang Song et al.   LITHOS

Ophiolites in the Xing'an-Inner Mongolia accretionary belt of the CAOB: Implications for two cycles of seafloor spreading and accretionary orogenic events

(2015) Shuguang Song et al.   TECTONICS

Late Paleozoic final closure of the Paleo-Asian Ocean in the eastern part of the Xing-Meng Orogenic Belt: Constrains from Carboniferous–Permian (meta-) sedimentary strata and (meta-) igneous rocks

(2015) Dapeng Li et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Petrogenesis of Early-Permian sanukitoids from West Junggar, Northwest China: Implications for Late Paleozoic crustal growth in Central Asia

(2015) Jiyuan Yin et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Triassic deformation of Permian Early Triassic arc-related sediments in the Beishan (NW China): Last pulse of the accretionary orogenesis in the southernmost Altaids

(2015) Zhonghua Tian et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

When did the subduction first initiate in the southern Paleo-Asian Ocean: New constraints from a Cambrian intra-oceanic arc system in West Junggar, NW China

(2014) Rong Ren et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Zircon dating of Neoproterozoic and Cambrian ophiolites in West Mongolia and implications for the timing of orogenic processes in the central part of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt

(2014) Ping Jian et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Geochronology and geochemistry of the Cambrian (~518 Ma) Chagantaolegai ophiolite in northern West Junggar (NW China): constraints on spatiotemporal characteristics of the Chingiz–Tarbagatai megazone

(2014) Lei Zhao et al.   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

Zircon geochronology constraints on the age and nature of ‘Precambrian metamorphic rocks’ in the Xing’an block of Northeast China

(2014) Wei Sun et al.   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

Porphyry molybdenum deposits in the Tianshan–Xingmeng orogenic belt, northern China

(2014) Qingdong Zeng et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

Subduction and exhumation mechanisms of ultra-high and high-pressure oceanic and continental crust at Makbal (Tianshan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan)

(2014) M. Meyer et al.   JOURNAL OF METAMORPHIC GEOLOGY

Coexistence of garnet blueschist and eclogite in South Tianshan, NW China: dependence ofP-Tevolution and bulk-rock composition

(2014) Z. L. Tian et al.   JOURNAL OF METAMORPHIC GEOLOGY

A modified genetic model for the Huangshandong magmatic sulfide deposit in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt, Xinjiang, western China

(2014) Ya-Jing Mao et al.   MINERALIUM DEPOSITA

Final closure of the Paleo-Asian Ocean along the Solonker Suture Zone: Constraints from geochronological and geochemical data of Permian volcanic and sedimentary rocks

(2014) Paul R. Eizenhöfer et al.   TECTONICS

Paleo-Pacific subduction-accretion: Evidence from Geochemical and U-Pb zircon dating of the Nadanhada accretionary complex, NE China

(2014) Jian-Bo Zhou et al.   TECTONICS

Outward-growth of the Tibetan Plateau during the Cenozoic: A review

(2014) Chengshan Wang et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Polyphase deformation of a Paleozoic forearc–arc complex in the Beishan orogen, NW China

(2014) Dongfang Song et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Early Palaeozoic deep subduction of continental crust in the Kyrgyz North Tianshan: evidence from Lu–Hf garnet geochronology and petrology of mafic dikes

(2013) Yamirka Rojas-Agramonte et al.   CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

Recognition of ocean plate stratigraphy in accretionary orogens through Earth history: A record of 3.8billion years of sea floor spreading, subduction, and accretion

(2013) T.M. Kusky et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Structure, age, and tectonic development of the Huoshishan–Niujuanzi ophiolitic mélange, Beishan, southernmost Altaids

(2013) Zhonghua Tian et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Eclogitization of transient crust of the Aktyuz Complex during Late Palaeozoic plate collisions in the Northern Tianshan of Kyrgyzstan

(2013) R. Klemd et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

The Paleozoic evolution of Central Tianshan: Geochemical and geochronological evidence

(2013) Xuxuan Ma et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Late Paleozoic subduction system in the northern margin of the Alxa block, Altaids: Geochronological and geochemical evidences from ophiolites

(2013) Rongguo Zheng et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

An Ordovician intra-oceanic subduction system influenced by ridge subduction in the West Junggar, Northwest China

(2013) Ping Shen et al.   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

Field geology, geochronology and geochemistry of mafic–ultramafic rocks from Alxa, China: Implications for Late Permian accretionary tectonics in the southern Altaids

(2013) Jianyun Feng et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Spatial–temporal relationships of Mesozoic volcanic rocks in NE China: Constraints on tectonic overprinting and transformations between multiple tectonic regimes

(2013) Wen-Liang Xu et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Geodynamics and metallogeny of the central Eurasian porphyry and related epithermal mineral systems: A review

(2013) Reimar Seltmann et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Mega-fold interference patterns in the Beishan orogen (NW China) created by change in plate configuration during Permo-Triassic termination of the Altaids

(2013) Zhonghua Tian et al.   JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY

High-pressure mafic oceanic rocks from the Makbal Complex, Tianshan Mountains (Kazakhstan & Kyrgyzstan): Implications for the metamorphic evolution of a fossil subduction zone

(2013) Melanie Meyer et al.   LITHOS

A Late Carboniferous–Early Permian slab window in the West Junggar of NW China: Geochronological and geochemical evidence from mafic to intermediate dikes

(2013) Jiyuan Yin et al.   LITHOS

Early Permian Tarim Large Igneous Province in northwest China

(2013) ShuFeng Yang et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

Orogen-parallel ductile extension and extrusion of the Greater Himalaya in the late Oligocene and Miocene

(2013) Zhiqin Xu et al.   TECTONICS

Mid-crustal emplacement and deformation of plutons in an Andean-style continental arc along the northern margin of the North China Block and tectonic implications

(2013) Shuan-Hong Zhang et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Paleozoic ophiolitic mélanges from the South Tianshan Orogen, NW China: Geological, geochemical and geochronological implications for the geodynamic setting

(2013) Tuo Jiang et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Massive granitoid production without massive continental-crust growth in the Chinese Altay: Insight into the source rock of granitoids using integrated zircon U-Pb age, Hf-Nd-Sr isotopes and geochemistry

(2012) W. Liu et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

Isotopic geochemistry of the Sawayaerdun orogenic-type gold deposit, Tianshan, northwest China: Implications for ore genesis and mineral exploration

(2012) Hua-Yong Chen et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Coesite in the eclogite and schist of the Atantayi Valley, southwestern Tianshan, China

(2012) Zeng Lü et al.   CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN

Middle Paleozoic convergent orogenic belts in western Inner Mongolia (China): framework, kinematics, geochronology and implications for tectonic evolution of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt

(2012) Bei Xu et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Paleozoic multiple accretionary and collisional tectonics of the Chinese Tianshan orogenic collage

(2012) Wenjiao Xiao et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Mesoproterozoic (Grenville-age) terranes in the Kyrgyz North Tianshan: Zircon ages and Nd–Hf isotopic constraints on the origin and evolution of basement blocks in the southern Central Asian Orogen

(2012) A. Kröner et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Accretionary complexes in the Asia-Pacific region: Tracing archives of ocean plate stratigraphy and tracking mantle plumes

(2012) I.Yu. Safonova et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Late Paleozoic subduction system in the southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Evidences from geochronology and geochemistry of the Xiaohuangshan ophiolite in the Beishan orogenic belt

(2012) Rongguo Zheng et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Age, association and provenance of the “Neoproterozoic” fengshuigouhe group in the northwestern Lesser Xing’an Range, NE China: Constraints from zircon U-Pb geochronology

(2012) Meijun Xu et al.   Journal of Earth Science

Evolution of microstructures in Precambrian shear zones: An example from eastern India

(2012) Sayandeep Banerjee et al.   JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY

Late Carboniferous high εNd(t)–εHf(t) granitoids, enclaves and dikes in western Junggar, NW China: Ridge-subduction-related magmatism and crustal growth

(2012) Gong-Jian Tang et al.   LITHOS

Tracing a subducted ridge–transform system in a late Carboniferous accretionary prism of the southern Altaids: Orthogonal sanukitoid dyke swarms in Western Junggar, NW China

(2012) Chong Ma et al.   LITHOS

Island arc-type bimodal magmatism in the eastern Tianshan Belt, Northwest China: Geochemistry, zircon U–Pb geochronology and implications for the Paleozoic crustal evolution in Central Asia

(2012) Xijie Chen et al.   LITHOS

Geology and fluid evolution of the Wangfeng orogenic-type gold deposit, Western Tian Shan, China

(2012) Li Zhang et al.   ORE GEOLOGY REVIEWS

Progressive accretionary tectonics of the Beishan orogenic collage, southern Altaids: Insights from zircon U–Pb and Hf isotopic data of high-grade complexes

(2012) Dongfang Song et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

The  390 Ma high-T metamorphic event in the Chinese Altai: A consequence of ridge-subduction?

(2011) Y. Jiang et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

Mineral ages and P-T conditions of Late Paleozoic high-pressure eclogite and provenance of melange sediments from Atbashi in the south Tianshan orogen of Kyrgyzstan

(2011) E. Hegner et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

Paleozoic multiple accretionary and collisional processes of the Beishan orogenic collage

(2011) W. J. Xiao et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

Late Carboniferous collision between the Tarim and Kazakhstan–Yili terranes in the western segment of the South Tian Shan Orogen, Central Asia, and implications for the Northern Xinjiang, western China

(2011) Bao-Fu Han et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Cambrian to early Silurian ophiolite and accretionary processes in the Beishan collage, NW China: implications for the architecture of the Southern Altaids

(2011) S. J. AO et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

The Liuyuan complex in the Beishan, NW China: a Carboniferous–Permian ophiolitic fore-arc sliver in the southern Altaids

(2011) QIGUI MAO et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

Syn- and post-collisional granitoids in the Central Tianshan orogen: Geochemistry, geochronology and implications for tectonic evolution

(2011) Yunpeng Dong et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Zircon U–Pb chronology and Hf isotope of the Xingxingxia granodiorite from the Central Tianshan zone (NW China): Implications for the tectonic evolution of the southern Altaids

(2011) Ru-Xiong Lei et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

SHRIMP zircon chronology of HP-UHP rocks of the Makbal metamorphic complex in the Northern Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan

(2011) D. Konopelko et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Late Ordovician to early Devonian adakites and Nb-enriched basalts in the Liuyuan area, Beishan, NW China: Implications for early Paleozoic slab-melting and crustal growth in the southern Altaids

(2011) Qigui Mao et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Lawsonite-bearing chloritoid–glaucophane schist from SW Tianshan, China: Phase equilibria and P–T path

(2011) Jinxue Du et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Ordovician eclogites from the Chinese Beishan: implications for the tectonic evolution of the southern Altaids

(2011) J. F. QU et al.   JOURNAL OF METAMORPHIC GEOLOGY

A Devonian to Carboniferous intra-oceanic subduction system in Western Junggar, NW China

(2011) Ji'en Zhang et al.   LITHOS

Geochemical and geochronological studies of granitoid rocks from the Western Tianshan Orogen: Implications for continental growth in the southwestern Central Asian Orogenic Belt

(2011) Lingli Long et al.   LITHOS

Petrology of HP metamorphic veins in coesite-bearing eclogite from western Tianshan, China: Fluid processes and elemental mobility during exhumation in a cold subduction zone

(2011) Zeng Lü et al.   LITHOS

Asian continental growth

(2011) Karel Schulmann et al.   Nature Geoscience

Two contrasting Phanerozoic orogenic systems revealed by hafnium isotope data

(2011) William J. Collins et al.   Nature Geoscience

Palaeozoic tectonic evolution of the Tianshan belt, NW China

(2011) Jacques Charvet et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

A >1300km late Pan-African metamorphic belt in NE China: New evidence from the Xing'an block and its tectonic implications

(2011) Jian-Bo Zhou et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

The collision between the Yili and Tarim blocks of the Southwestern Altaids: Geochemical and age constraints of a leucogranite dike crosscutting the HP–LT metamorphic belt in the Chinese Tianshan Orogen

(2011) Jun Gao et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Ridge subduction and crustal growth in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Evidence from Late Carboniferous adakites and high-Mg diorites in the western Junggar region, northern Xinjiang (west China)

(2010) Gongjian Tang et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Composition and U-Pb isotopic age determinations (SHRIMP II) of the ophiolitic assemblage from the Shaman paleospreading zone and the conditions of its formation (North Transbaikalia)

(2010) I. V. Gordienko et al.   DOKLADY EARTH SCIENCES

U–Pb zircon geochronology of Tianshan eclogites in NW China: implication for the collision between the Yili and Tarim blocks of the southwestern Altaids

(2010) Wen Su et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MINERALOGY

A Permian large igneous province in Tarim and Central Asian orogenic belt, NW China: Results of a ca. 275 Ma mantle plume?

(2010) C.-L. Zhang et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Geochronological and geochemical study of mafic dykes from the northwest Chinese Altai: Implications for petrogenesis and tectonic evolution

(2010) Keda Cai et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Geochronology and geochemistry of Early Permian mafic–ultramafic complexes in the Beishan area, Xinjiang, NW China: Implications for late Paleozoic tectonic evolution of the southern Altaids

(2010) S.J. Ao et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Kinematics and age constraints of deformation in a Late Carboniferous accretionary complex in Western Junggar, NW China

(2010) Ji'en Zhang et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Late Devonian–Early Permian A-type granites in the southern Altay Range, Northwest China: Petrogenesis and implications for tectonic setting of “A2-type” granites

(2010) Xiaoming Shen et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Tectonic significance of the Xilin Gol Complex, Inner Mongolia, China: Petrological, geochemical and U–Pb zircon age constraints

(2010) Yilong Li et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Geochronology of the Phanerozoic granitoids in northeastern China

(2010) Fu-Yuan Wu et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Evolution of a Permian intraoceanic arc–trench system in the Solonker suture zone, Central Asian Orogenic Belt, China and Mongolia

(2010) Ping Jian et al.   LITHOS

The origin of microcontinents in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Constraints from paleomagnetism and geochronology

(2010) Natalia M. Levashova et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

The Ashele VMS-type Cu-Zn Deposit in Xinjiang, NW China Formed in a Rifted Arc Setting

(2010) Bo Wan et al.   RESOURCE GEOLOGY

Paleozoic tectonics of the southern Chinese Tianshan: Insights from structural, chronological and geochemical studies of the Heiyingshan ophiolitic mélange (NW China)

(2010) Bo Wang et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Paleozoic multiple subduction-accretion processes of the southern Altaids

(2009) W. J. Xiao et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

Geochemical, Sr–Nd and zircon U–Pb–Hf isotopic studies of Late Carboniferous magmatism in the West Junggar, Xinjiang: Implications for ridge subduction?

(2009) Hongyan Geng et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Trace-element mobilization during Ca-metasomatism along a major fluid conduit: Eclogitization of blueschist as a consequence of fluid–rock interaction

(2009) Andreas Beinlich et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Tectonic development of the southern Chinese Altai Range as determined by structural geology, thermobarometry,40Ar/39Ar thermochronology, and Th/Pb ion-microprobe monazite geochronology

(2009) Stephanie M. Briggs et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Age, geochemistry, and tectonic implications of a late Paleozoic stitching pluton in the North Tian Shan suture zone, western China

(2009) B.-F. Han et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Devonian A-type granitic magmatism on the northern margin of the North China Craton: SHRIMP U–Pb zircon dating and Hf-isotopes of the Hongshan granite at Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, China

(2009) Yuruo Shi et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

End-Permian to mid-Triassic termination of the accretionary processes of the southern Altaids: implications for the geodynamic evolution, Phanerozoic continental growth, and metallogeny of Central Asia

(2009) W. J. Xiao et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

Petrology of coesite-bearing eclogite from Habutengsu Valley, western Tianshan, NW China and its tectonometamorphic implication

(2009) Z. LÜ et al.   JOURNAL OF METAMORPHIC GEOLOGY

Petrology, Sr–Nd–Hf isotopic geochemistry and zircon chronology of the Late Palaeozoic volcanic rocks in the southwestern Tianshan Mountains, Xinjiang, NW China

(2009) YONGFENG ZHU et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Nd–Sr isotopic mapping of the Chinese Altai and implications for continental growth in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt

(2009) Tao Wang et al.   LITHOS

The onset of Pacific margin accretion in NE China: Evidence from the Heilongjiang high-pressure metamorphic belt

(2009) Jian-Bo Zhou et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Detrital zircon ages and Hf isotopes of the early Paleozoic flysch sequence in the Chinese Altai, NW China: New constrains on depositional age, provenance and tectonic evolution

(2009) Xiaoping Long et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Cenozoic tectonic evolution of Asia: A preliminary synthesis

(2009) An Yin   TECTONOPHYSICS

Early Paleozoic ridge subduction in the Chinese Altai: Insight from the abrupt change in zircon Hf isotopic compositions

(2009) Min Sun et al.   Science in China. Series D, Earth sciences / Chinese Academy of Sciences

Coesite inclusions in garnet from eclogitic rocks in western Tianshan, northwest China: Convincing proof of UHP metamorphism

(2008) Z. Lu et al.   AMERICAN MINERALOGIST

Blueschist-facies rehydration of eclogites (Tian Shan, NW-China): Implications for fluid–rock interaction in the subduction channel

(2008) François van der Straaten et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

New 40Ar/39Ar age constraints on the Late Palaeozoic tectonic evolution of the western Tianshan (Xinjiang, northwestern China), with emphasis on Permian fluid ingress

(2008) Koen de Jong et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

Tectonic evolution of the South Tianshan orogen and adjacent regions, NW China: geochemical and age constraints of granitoid rocks

(2008) Jun Gao et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

Early Permian plutons from the northern North China Block: constraints on continental arc evolution and convergent margin magmatism related to the Central Asian Orogenic Belt

(2008) Shuan-Hong Zhang et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

Geochemistry of the Kalatongke Ni–Cu–(PGE) sulfide deposit, NW China: implications for the formation of magmatic sulfide mineralization in a postcollisional environment

(2008) Xie-Yan Song et al.   MINERALIUM DEPOSITA

Conditions of formation of the Atbashi Ridge eclogites (South Tien Shan)

(2008) V.A. Simonov et al.   Russian Geology and Geophysics

Early Paleozoic sedimentary record of the Chinese Altai: Implications for its tectonic evolution

(2008) Xiaoping Long et al.   SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY

Syntectonic growth strata and implications for late Cenozoic tectonic uplift in the northern Tian Shan, China

(2008) Jimin Sun et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Zircon U–Pb and Hf isotopic study of gneissic rocks from the Chinese Altai: Progressive accretionary history in the early to middle Palaeozoic

(2007) Min Sun et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

A review of the Cu–Ni sulphide deposits in the Chinese Tianshan and Altay orogens (Xinjiang Autonomous Region, NW China): Principal characteristics and ore-forming processes

(2007) Jing Wen Mao et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Middle Cambrian to Permian subduction-related accretionary orogenesis of Northern Xinjiang, NW China: Implications for the tectonic evolution of central Asia

(2007) Wenjiao Xiao et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Geochronology and geochemistry of the Hegenshan ophiolitic complex: Implications for late-stage tectonic evolution of the Inner Mongolia-Daxinganling Orogenic Belt, China

(2007) Laicheng Miao et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Time scale of an early to mid-Paleozoic orogenic cycle of the long-lived Central Asian Orogenic Belt, Inner Mongolia of China: Implications for continental growth

(2007) Ping Jian et al.   LITHOS