Tracing tectonic processes from Proto- to Paleo-Tethys in the East Kunlun Orogen by detrital zircons

Understanding ancient tectonic settings through detrital zircon analysis

(2022) M. Barham et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Grenville-age basement and early Paleozoic reworking in the Qilian Orogen, NW China: Implications for paleotectonic reconstruction of Rodinia and Gondwana

(2022) Hang Li et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Multiple Tethyan ocean basins and orogenic belts in Asia

(2021) Ian Metcalfe   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Petrogenesis and tectonic setting of the early-middle triassic subduction-related granite in the eastern segment of East Kunlun: evidences from petrology, geochemistry, and zircon U-Pb-Hf isotopes

(2021) Zuo-Chen Li et al.   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

Neoproterozoic magmatic and metamorphic imprints in the East Kunlun Orogenic Belt, North Tibetan Plateau, NW China: Implications for the assembly and initial breakup of the Rodinia supercontinent

(2021) Dongqian Wu et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Geochronology and geochemistry of an early Silurian plagiogranite from Xiarihamu area, East Kunlun, northwest China: implications for Proto-Tethyan evolution

(2021) Bin Li et al.   Arabian Journal of Geosciences

Central China Orogenic Belt and amalgamation of East Asian continents

(2021) Yunpeng Dong et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

HP–UHP eclogites in the East Kunlun Orogen, China: P–T evidence for asymmetric suturing of the Proto-Tethys Ocean

(2021) Hengzhe Bi et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

HP–UHT granulites in the East Kunlun Orogen, NW China: Constraints on the transition from compression to extension in an arc setting of the Proto‐Tethys Ocean

(2021) Hengzhe Bi et al.   JOURNAL OF METAMORPHIC GEOLOGY

Picrite-basalt complex in the Baoshan-Gongshan Block of northern Sibumasu: Onset of a mantle plume before breakup of Gondwana and opening of the Neo-Tethys Ocean

(2021) Li Su et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

The Silurian-Devonian granitoids in the East Kunlun orogenic belt, northern Qinghai-Tibetan plateau, China: origin and tectonic implications

(2021) Namkha Norbu et al.   GEOSCIENCES JOURNAL

Geochemistry and U-Pb-Hf detrital zircon geochronology of metamorphic rocks in terranes of the West Kunlun Orogen: Protracted subduction in the northernmost Proto-Tethys Ocean

(2021) Guangyou Zhu et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Paleozoic post-collisional magmatism and high-temperature granulite-facies metamorphism coupling with lithospheric delamination of the East Kunlun Orogenic Belt, NW China

(2021) Qian Wang et al.   Geoscience Frontiers

Devonian to Triassic tectonic evolution and basin transition in the East Kunlun−Qaidam area, northern Tibetan Plateau: Constraints from stratigraphy and detrital zircon U−Pb geochronology

(2021) Jiaopeng Sun et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Paleozoic tectonic evolution of the central part of the southern central Asian Orogenic Belt: Constraints from the detrital zircon U-Pb ages and sedimentary characteristics

(2021) Beihang Zhang et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Post-collisional mafic magmatism: Insights into orogenic collapse and mantle modification from North Qaidam collisional belt, NW China

(2021) Chen-Ao Zhou et al.   LITHOS

Formation and evolution of the Eastern Kunlun Range, northern Tibet: Evidence from detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology and Hf isotopes

(2020) Xing Jian et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Anisian granodiorites and mafic microgranular enclaves in the eastern Kunlun Orogen, NW China: Insights into closure of the eastern Paleo-Tethys

(2020) Yanjun Li et al.   GEOLOGICAL JOURNAL

Multi-stage crustal melting from Late Permian back-arc extension through Middle Triassic continental collision to Late Triassic post-collisional extension in the East Kunlun Orogen

(2020) Xu Zhao et al.   LITHOS

Reconstructing crustal thickness evolution from europium anomalies in detrital zircons

(2020) Ming Tang et al.   GEOLOGY

Silurian-Devonian granites and associated intermediate-mafic rocks along the eastern Kunlun Orogen, western China: Evidence for a prolonged post-collisional lithospheric extension

(2020) Jinyang Zhang et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Subduction initiation of Proto-Tethys Ocean and back-arc extension in the northern Altun Mountains, northwestern China: Evidence from high-Mg diorites and A-type rhyolites

(2020) Xian-Tao Ye et al.   LITHOS

Early Devonian mafic igneous rocks in the East Kunlun Orogen, NW China: Implications for the transition from the Proto- to Paleo-Tethys oceans

(2020) Jinlong Dong et al.   LITHOS

Tectonics of the Eastern Kunlun Range: Cenozoic reactivation of a Paleozoic-early Mesozoic orogen

(2019) Chen Wu et al.   TECTONICS

Petrogenesis of the southern Qiangtang mafic dykes, Tibet: Link to a late Paleozoic mantle plume on the northern margin of Gondwana?

(2019) Ming Wang et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Early Neoproterozoic magmatic imprints in the Altun-Qilian-Kunlun region of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau: Response to the assembly and breakup of Rodinia supercontinent

(2019) Yinbiao Peng et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Petrogenesis of Late Triassic high-Mg diorites and associated granitoids with implications for Paleo-Tethys evolution in the northeast Tibetan Plateau

(2019) Jun Tan et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Early Paleozoic mantle evolution of East Kunlun Orogenic Belt in Qinghai, NW China: evidence from the geochemistry and geochronology of the Late Ordovician to Late Silurian mafic-ultramafic rocks in the Qimantag region

(2019) Xue-Peng Duan et al.   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

Late Permian back-arc extension of the eastern Paleo-Tethys Ocean: Evidence from the East Kunlun Orogen, Northern Tibetan Plateau

(2019) Xu Zhao et al.   LITHOS

Proto-Tethys magmatic evolution along northern Gondwana: Insights from Late Silurian–Middle Devonian A-type magmatism, East Kunlun Orogen, Northern Tibetan Plateau, China

(2019) Jiajie Chen et al.   LITHOS

The Late Ordovician granitoids in the East Kunlun Orogenic Belt, Northwestern China: petrogenesis and constraints for tectonic evolution of the Proto-Tethys Ocean

(2019) Jinyu Li et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

The tectonic evolution of the East Kunlun Orogen, northern Tibetan Plateau: A critical review with an integrated geodynamic model

(2019) Miao Yu et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

The Early Triassic Andean-type Halagatu granitoids pluton in the East Kunlun orogen, northern Tibet Plateau: Response to the northward subduction of the Paleo-Tethys Ocean

(2018) Ruibao Li et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Origin of the Bashierxi monzogranite, Qiman Tagh, East Kunlun Orogen, NW China: A magmatic response to the evolution of the Proto-Tethys Ocean

(2018) Zhen Zheng et al.   LITHOS

Zircon U–Pb geochronology and Hf isotope of granitoids in East Kunlun: Implications for the Neoproterozoic magmatism of Qaidam Block, Northern Tibetan Plateau

(2018) Dengfeng He et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

IsoplotR : A free and open toolbox for geochronology

(2018) Pieter Vermeesch   Geoscience Frontiers

Constraints of late Cambrian mafic rocks from the Qushi'ang ophiolite on a back-arc system in a continental margin, East Kunlun Orogen, Western China

(2018) Ruibao Li et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

HP-UHP metamorphic belt in the East Kunlun Orogen: final closure of the Proto-Tethys Ocean and formation of the Pan-North-China Continent

(2018) Shuguang Song et al.   JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY

Geological reconstructions of the East Asian blocks: From the breakup of Rodinia to the assembly of Pangea

(2018) Guochun Zhao et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Zircon and Monazite Ages Constraints on Devonian Magmatism and Granulite-Facies Metamorphism in the Southern Qaidam Block: Implications for Evolution of Proto- and Paleo-Tethys in East Asia

(2018) Jin Ba et al.   Journal of Earth Science

Geochronology and geochemistry of the Yazidaban ophiolitic mélange in Qimantagh: constraints on the Early Paleozoic back-arc basin of the East Kunlun Orogen, northern Tibetan Plateau

(2018) Yunpeng Dong et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

First discovery of coesite in eclogite from East Kunlun, northwest China

(2018) Hengzhe Bi et al.   Science Bulletin

Tectonic evolution of the Qilian Shan: An early Paleozoic orogen reactivated in the Cenozoic

(2017) Andrew V. Zuza et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

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

(2017) Andrew V. Zuza et al.   Geosphere

Early Paleozoic polyphase metamorphism in northern Tibet, China

(2017) Jianxin Zhang et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Multiple sources of the Early Mesozoic Gouli batholith, Eastern Kunlun Orogenic Belt, northern Tibetan Plateau: Linking continental crustal growth with oceanic subduction

(2017) Jiajie Chen et al.   LITHOS

Petrogenesis of Triassic granitoids in the East Kunlun Orogenic Belt, northern Tibetan Plateau and their tectonic implications

(2017) Fengli Shao et al.   LITHOS

Qi-Qin Accretionary Belt in Central China Orogen: accretion by trench jam of oceanic plateau and formation of intra-oceanic arc in the Early Paleozoic Qin-Qi-Kun Ocean

(2017) Shuguang Song et al.   Science Bulletin

Subduction and accretionary tectonics of the East Kunlun orogen, western segment of the Central China Orogenic System

(2017) Yunpeng Dong et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Closure of the Proto-Tethys Ocean and Early Paleozoic amalgamation of microcontinental blocks in East Asia

(2017) Sanzhong Li et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Early Ordovician island-arc-type Manite granodiorite pluton from the Buqingshan Tectonic Mélange Belt in the southern margin of the East Kunlun Orogen: constraints on subduction of the Proto-Tethyan Ocean

(2016) Zuochen Li et al.   GEOLOGICAL JOURNAL

Tectono-thermal events in East Kunlun, Northern Tibetan Plateau: Evidence from zircon U–Pb geochronology

(2016) Dengfeng He et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Tectonic architecture and multiple orogeny of the Qinling Orogenic Belt, Central China

(2016) Yunpeng Dong et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Geochemistry and zircon U-Pb geochronology of granitoids in the East Kunlun Orogenic Belt, northern Tibetan Plateau: origin and tectonic implications

(2016) Bo Zhou et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Petrogenesis and tectonic significance of the late Triassic mafic dikes and felsic volcanic rocks in the East Kunlun Orogenic Belt, Northern Tibet Plateau

(2016) Yan Hu et al.   LITHOS

Pre-Cenozoic geologic history of the central and northern Tibetan Plateau and the role of Wilson cycles in constructing the Tethyan orogenic system

(2016) Chen Wu et al.   Lithosphere

“Fingerprinting” tectono-magmatic provenance using trace elements in igneous zircon

(2015) C. B. Grimes et al.   CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

Heishan mafic–ultramafic rocks in the Qimantag area of Eastern Kunlun, NW China: Remnants of an early Paleozoic incipient island arc

(2015) Fancong Meng et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Molybdenite Re–Os, zircon U–Pb dating and Hf isotopic analysis of the Shuangqing Fe–Pb–Zn–Cu skarn deposit, East Kunlun Mountains, Qinghai Province, China

(2015) Rui Xia et al.   ORE GEOLOGY REVIEWS

The 600–580Ma continental rift basalts in North Qilian Shan, northwest China: Links between the Qilian-Qaidam block and SE Australia, and the reconstruction of East Gondwana

(2015) Xin Xu et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Geochemical constraints on the petrogenesis of granitoids in the East Kunlun Orogenic belt, northern Tibetan Plateau: Implications for continental crust growth through syn-collisional felsic magmatism

(2014) Hui Huang et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Reworking of old continental lithosphere: an important crustal evolution mechanism in orogenic belts, as evidenced by Triassic I-type granitoids in the East Kunlun orogen, Northern Tibetan Plateau

(2014) Fuhao Xiong et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Age and geochemistry of western Hoh-Xil–Songpan-Ganzi granitoids, northern Tibet: Implications for the Mesozoic closure of the Paleo-Tethys ocean

(2014) Li-Yun Zhang et al.   LITHOS

Geochemical and geochronologic constraints for Paleozoic magmatism related to the orogenic collapse in the Qimantagh–South Altyn region, northwestern China

(2014) Chao Wang et al.   LITHOS

Qinghu zircon: A working reference for microbeam analysis of U-Pb age and Hf and O isotopes

(2013) XianHua Li et al.   CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN

40Ar–39Ar age and geochemistry of subduction-related mafic dikes in northern Tibet, China: petrogenesis and tectonic implications

(2013) Bin Liu et al.   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

Gondwana dispersion and Asian accretion: Tectonic and palaeogeographic evolution of eastern Tethys

(2013) I. Metcalfe   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Provenance and ages of the Altyn Complex in Altyn Tagh: Implications for the early Neoproterozoic evolution of northwestern China

(2013) Chao Wang et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Provenance analysis of the Mesozoic Hoh-Xil-Songpan-Ganzi turbidites in northern Tibet: Implications for the tectonic evolution of the eastern Paleo-Tethys Ocean

(2013) L. Ding et al.   TECTONICS

The formation of Pangea

(2013) G.M. Stampfli et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Detrital zircon record and tectonic setting

(2012) P.A. Cawood et al.   GEOLOGY

Discovery of Early Paleozoic eclogite from the East Kunlun, Western China and its tectonic significance

(2012) Fancong Meng et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Tectonics of the North Qilian orogen, NW China

(2012) Shuguang Song et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Mixing of Source Populations Recorded in Detrital Zircon U-Pb Age Spectra of Modern River Sands

(2012) Joel E. Saylor et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY

Grenville-age orogenesis in the Qaidam-Qilian block: The link between South China and Tarim

(2012) Shuguang Song et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

The early Precambrian odyssey of the North China Craton: A synoptic overview

(2011) Ming-Guo Zhai et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Late Triassic high-Mg andesite/dacite suites from northern Hohxil, North Tibet: Geochronology, geochemical characteristics, petrogenetic processes and tectonic implications

(2011) Qiang Wang et al.   LITHOS

Two contrasting Phanerozoic orogenic systems revealed by hafnium isotope data

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

Penglai Zircon Megacrysts: A Potential New Working Reference Material for Microbeam Determination of Hf-O Isotopes and U-Pb Age

(2010) Xian-Hua Li et al.   GEOSTANDARDS AND GEOANALYTICAL RESEARCH

U-Pb and 40Ar/39Ar geochronological constraints on the exhumation history of the North Qinling terrane, China

(2010) Yunpeng Dong et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Tracing the 850-Ma continental flood basalts from a piece of subducted continental crust in the North Qaidam UHPM belt, NW China

(2010) Shuguang Song et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Use of U–Pb ages of detrital zircons to infer maximum depositional ages of strata: A test against a Colorado Plateau Mesozoic database

(2009) William R. Dickinson et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Devonian to Permian plate tectonic cycle of the Paleo-Tethys Orogen in southwest China (I): Geochemistry of ophiolites, arc/back-arc assemblages and within-plate igneous rocks

(2009) Ping Jian et al.   LITHOS

Triassic continental subduction in central Tibet and Mediterranean-style closure of the Paleo-Tethys Ocean

(2008) Alex Pullen et al.   GEOLOGY

U-Pb dating of zircon from the Central Zone of the East Kunlun Orogen and its implications for tectonic evolution

(2008) NengSong Chen et al.   Science in China. Series D, Earth sciences / Chinese Academy of Sciences

Plešovice zircon — A new natural reference material for U–Pb and Hf isotopic microanalysis

(2007) Jiří Sláma et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Possible correlation between a mantle plume and the evolution of Paleo-Tethys Jinshajiang Ocean: Evidence from a volcanic rifted margin in the Xiaru-Tuoding area, Yunnan, SW China

(2007) Long Xiao et al.   LITHOS

Assembly, configuration, and break-up history of Rodinia: A synthesis

(2007) Z.X. Li et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH