Early Precambrian basement components of the Cathaysia Block in South China exhumed by Phanerozoic orogenic events

Extremely weak Lg attenuation reveals ancient continental relicts in the South China block

(2023) Lin Shen et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

An early Precambrian “orogenic belt” exhumed by the Phanerozoic tectonic events: A case study of the eastern North China Craton

(2023) Lei Zhao et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Late Tonian (ca. 785 Ma) subduction-related mafic-ultramafic cumulates in the West Cathaysia terrane, South China

(2023) Lijun Wang et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Forming the oldest-surviving crust

(2023) Allen P. Nutman   Nature Geoscience

No evidence of supracrustal recycling in Si-O isotopes of Earth’s oldest rocks 4 Ga ago

(2023) Qing Zhang et al.   Science Advances

Orogenic belt resulting from ocean-continent collision

(2022) Jun-Hong Zhao et al.   GEOLOGY

Early Mesozoic Anatexis‐Induced Strain Partitioning and Gneiss Doming in the Yunkai Massif, South China: A Response to Contrasted Dynamics of Paleo‐Pacific and Paleo‐Tethys Subductions?

(2022) Bryan Cochelin et al.   TECTONICS

Identification of two-phased late Paleoproterozoic magmatism in the Wuyishan Domain (SE China): Implications for the tectonic evolution of the Cathaysia Block

(2021) Aimei Zhang et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Early crustal evolution of the Yangtze Block: Constraints from zircon U-Pb-Hf isotope systematics of 3.1–1.9 Ga granitoids in the Cuoke Complex, SW China

(2021) Xiaozhuang Cui et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Episodic growth of felsic continents in the past 3.7 Ga

(2021) Marion Garçon   Science Advances

Emplacement and metamorphism of the mafic rocks from the Chencai terrane within the Cathaysia Block: Implications for the Paleozoic orogenesis of the South China Block

(2019) Lei Zhao et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

A Fragment of Columbia Supercontinent: Insight for Cathaysia Block Basement From Tectono‐Magmatic Evolution and Mantle Heterogeneity

(2019) Yan Xia et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Turbidite record of a Neoproterozoic active continental margin in the West Cathaysia terrane, South China: implications for the relationships between the Yangtze and Cathaysia blocks and their positions in Rodinia

(2019) Lijun Wang et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Appalachian-style multi-terrane Wilson cycle model for the assembly of South China: COMMENT

(2018) Liangshu Shu* et al.   GEOLOGY

Appalachian-style multi-terrane Wilson cycle model for the assembly of South China: COMMENT

(2018) Michel Faure et al.   GEOLOGY

Appalachian-style multi-terrane Wilson cycle model for the assembly of South China

(2018) Shoufa Lin et al.   GEOLOGY

Paleoproterozoic and Triassic metamorphic events in the Jiaobei Terrane, Jiao-Liao-Ji Belt, China: Hidden clues on multiple metamorphism and new insights into complex tectonic evolution

(2018) Lishuang Liu et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Petrologic and zircon U–Pb geochronological characteristics of the pelitic granulites from the Badu Complex of the Cathaysia Block, South China

(2018) Lei Zhao et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Detrital zircon and igneous protolith ages of high-grade metamorphic rocks in the Highland and Wanni Complexes, Sri Lanka: Their geochronological correlation with southern India and East Antarctica

(2018) Ippei Kitano et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Precambrian protoliths and Phanerozoic overprinting on the Wuyishan terrain (South China): New evidence from a combination of LA-ICPMS zircon and EMP monazite geochronology

(2018) Cheng-Hong Chen et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Basement components of the Xiangshan-Yuhuashan area, South China: Defining the boundary between the Yangtze and Cathaysia blocks

(2018) Jinhai Yu et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Petrogenesis of Mesoproterozoic mafic rocks in Hainan (South China) and its implication on the southwest Hainan-Laurentia-Australia connection

(2018) Limin Zhang et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Neoproterozoic geology and reconstruction of South China

(2018) Jun-Hong Zhao et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Triassic rejuvenation of unexposed Archean-Paleoproterozoic deep crust beneath the western Cathaysia block, South China

(2018) Xi-Yao Li et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Integrated Zircon U-Pb-O-Hf and Whole-Rock Sm-Nd Studies of Paleozoic Amphibolites in the Chencai Area of the Cathaysia Block, South China

(2018) Lei Zhao et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY

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

Detrital zircons in metasedimentary rocks of Mayuan and Mamianshan Group from Cathaysia Block in northwestern Fujian Province, South China: New constraints on their formation ages and paleogeographic implication

(2018) Zhao-Yao Yang et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Tectonic evolution of the eastern Jiangnan region, South China: New findings and implications on the assembly of the Rodinia supercontinent

(2018) Liangshu Shu et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Early Mesozoic retrograded eclogite and mafic granulite from the Badu Complex of the Cathaysia Block, South China: Petrology and tectonic implications

(2017) Lei Zhao et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

From the Neoproterozoic mafic rock to the Silurian high-grade metamorphic rock: Evidence from zircon U-Pb geochronological, bulk-rock geochemical and mineral EPMA studies of Longyou garnet amphibolite in SE China

(2017) Jing-Qiang Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

New insights into Phanerozoic tectonics of South China: Early Paleozoic sinistral and Triassic dextral transpression in the east Wuyishan and Chencai domains, NE Cathaysia

(2017) Jianhua Li et al.   TECTONICS

First Direct Evidence of Pan-African Orogeny Associated with Gondwana Assembly in the Cathaysia Block of Southern China

(2017) Longming Li et al.   Scientific Reports

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

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

Reconstructing South China in Phanerozoic and Precambrian supercontinents

(2017) Peter A. Cawood et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

First discovery of a Palaeoproterozoic A-type granite in southern Wuyishan terrane, Cathaysia Block: evidence from geochronology, geochemistry, and Nd–Hf–O isotopes

(2016) Zhi-Hong Chen et al.   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

Ordovician Arc-Related Mafic Intrusions in South China: Implications for Plate Subduction along the Southeastern Margin of South China in the Early Paleozoic

(2016) Chuan-Lin Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY

Late Palaeoproterozoic depositional age for khondalite protoliths in southern India and tectonic implications

(2016) S. Liu et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Widespread Paleoproterozoic basement in the eastern Cathaysia Block: Evidence from metasedimentary rocks of the Pingtan–Dongshan metamorphic belt, in southeastern China

(2016) Linwei Shen et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Delineating and characterizing the boundary of the Cathaysia Block and the Jiangnan orogenic belt in South China

(2016) Jinlong Yao et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Ca. 830 Ma back-arc type volcanic rocks in the eastern part of the Jiangnan orogen: Implications for the Neoproterozoic tectonic evolution of South China Block

(2016) Longming Li et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Thermal gradient and geochronology of a Paleozoic high-grade terrane in the northeastern Cathaysia block, South China

(2016) Lei Zhao et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Early Mesozoic granites in the Nanling Belt, South China: Implications for intracontinental tectonics associated with stress regime transformation

(2016) Meijia Song et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

New insights into Phanerozoic tectonics of south China: Part 1, polyphase deformation in the Jiuling and Lianyunshan domains of the central Jiangnan Orogen

(2016) Jianhua Li et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Zircon U–Th–Pb–Hf isotopes of the basement rocks in northeastern Cathaysia block, South China: Implications for Phanerozoic multiple metamorphic reworking of a Paleoproterozoic terrane

(2015) Lei Zhao et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Metasedimentary melting in the formation of charnockite: Petrological and zircon U-Pb-Hf-O isotope evidence from the Darongshan S-type granitic complex in southern China

(2015) Shu-Juan Jiao et al.   LITHOS

Geochronology and geochemistry of a suite of mafic rocks in Chencai area, South China: Implications for petrogenesis and tectonic setting

(2015) Lei Zhao et al.   LITHOS

A possible buried Paleoproterozoic collisional orogen beneath central South China: Evidence from seismic-reflection profiling

(2015) S.W. Dong et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Recycling of crustal materials through study of ultrahigh-pressure minerals in collisional orogens, ophiolites, and mantle xenoliths: A review

(2014) Juhn G. Liou et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Palaeozoic metamorphism of the Neoproterozoic basement in NE Cathaysia: zircon U–Pb ages, Hf isotope and whole-rock geochemistry from the Chencai Group

(2014) Jinlong Yao et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Geochemical zonation across a Neoproterozoic orogenic belt: Isotopic evidence from granitoids and metasedimentary rocks of the Jiangnan orogen, China

(2014) Xiao-Lei Wang et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

3.45Ga granitic gneisses from the Yangtze Craton, South China: Implications for Early Archean crustal growth

(2014) Jing-Liang Guo et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Origin and geological significance of Paleoproterozoic granites in the northeastern Cathaysia Block, South China

(2014) Qian Liu et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Terminal suturing of Gondwana along the southern margin of South China Craton: Evidence from detrital zircon U-Pb ages and Hf isotopes in Cambrian and Ordovician strata, Hainan Island

(2014) Yajun Xu et al.   TECTONICS

Early Paleozoic orogenesis along Gondwana's northern margin constrained by provenance data from South China

(2014) Yajun Xu et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Partial melting of deeply subducted eclogite from the Sulu orogen in China

(2014) Lu Wang et al.   Nature Communications

Diversity in early crustal evolution: 4100 Ma zircons in the Cathaysia Block of southern China

(2014) Guang-Fu Xing et al.   Scientific Reports

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

(2013) I. Metcalfe   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

The Fuchuan ophiolite in Jiangnan Orogen: Geochemistry, zircon U–Pb geochronology, Hf isotope and implications for the Neoproterozoic assembly of South China

(2013) Chuan-Lin Zhang et al.   LITHOS

The Indosinian collision–extension event between the South China Block and the Palaeo-Pacific plate: Evidence from Indosinian alkaline granitic rocks in Dashuang, eastern Zhejiang, South China

(2013) Jianren Mao et al.   LITHOS

The geochronological and geochemical constraints on the petrogenesis of the Early Mesozoic A-type granite and diabase in northwestern Fujian province

(2013) Kai-Xing Wang et al.   LITHOS

Early Paleozoic crustal anatexis in the intraplate Wuyi–Yunkai orogen, South China

(2013) Dan Wang et al.   LITHOS

Petrogenesis of early Paleozoic peraluminous granite in the Sibumasu Block of SW Yunnan and diachronous accretionary orogenesis along the northern margin of Gondwana

(2013) Yuejun Wang et al.   LITHOS

Paleoproterozoic tectonic transition from collision to extension in the eastern Cathaysia Block, South China: Evidence from geochemistry, zircon U–Pb geochronology and Nd–Hf isotopes of a granite–charnockite suite in southwestern Zhejiang

(2013) Lei Zhao et al.   LITHOS

Tectonic evolution of the southeastern margin of the Yangtze Block: Constraints from SHRIMP U-Pb and LA-ICP-MS Hf isotopic studies of zircon from the eastern Jiangnan Orogenic Belt and implications for the tectonic interpretation of South China

(2013) Changqing Yin et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Tectonics of South China continent and its implications

(2013) GuoWei Zhang et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

Phanerozoic tectonics of the South China Block: Key observations and controversies

(2012) Yuejun Wang et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Geochronology of granulite, charnockite and gneiss in the poly-metamorphosed Gaozhou Complex (Yunkai massif), South China: Emphasis on the in-situ EMP monazite dating

(2012) Cheng-Hong Chen et al.   LITHOS

Ages and geochemistry of granites in the Pingtan–Dongshan Metamorphic Belt, Coastal South China: New constraints on Late Mesozoic magmatic evolution

(2012) Qian Liu et al.   LITHOS

Kwangsian and Indosinian reworking of the eastern South China Block: Constraints on zircon U–Pb geochronology and metamorphism of amphibolites and granulites

(2012) Yuejun Wang et al.   LITHOS

Paleoproterozoic S- and A-type granites in southwestern Zhejiang: Magmatism, metamorphism and implications for the crustal evolution of the Cathaysia basement

(2012) Yan Xia et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Magmatic switch-on and switch-off along the South China continental margin since the Permian: Transition from an Andean-type to a Western Pacific-type plate boundary

(2012) Zheng-Xiang Li et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Ca. 850 Ma bimodal volcanic rocks in northeastern Jiangxi Province, South China: Initial extension during the breakup of Rodinia?

(2011) W. X. Li et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

The Early Permian active continental margin and crustal growth of the Cathaysia Block: In situ U–Pb, Lu–Hf and O isotope analyses of detrital zircons

(2011) Xian-Hua Li et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Geochemistry, zircon U–Pb age and Hf isotope compositions of Paleoproterozoic aluminous A-type granites from the Kongling terrain, Yangtze Block: Constraints on petrogenesis and geologic implications

(2011) Min Peng et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Geochronological and Geochemical study of Palaeoproterozoic gneissic granites and clinopyroxenite xenoliths from NW Fujian, SE China: Implications for the crustal evolution of the Cathaysia Block

(2011) Long-Ming Li et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Characteristics and geodynamic evolution of Indosinian magmatism in South China: A case study of the Guikeng pluton

(2011) Jianren Mao et al.   LITHOS

Kwangsian crustal anatexis within the eastern South China Block: Geochemical, zircon U–Pb geochronological and Hf isotopic fingerprints from the gneissoid granites of Wugong and Wuyi–Yunkai Domains

(2011) Yuejun Wang et al.   LITHOS

Geochronological and geochemical features of the Cathaysia block (South China): New evidence for the Neoproterozoic breakup of Rodinia

(2011) Liang-Shu Shu et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

U–Pb geochronology and Hf–Nd isotopic geochemistry of the Badu Complex, Southeastern China: Implications for the Precambrian crustal evolution and paleogeography of the Cathaysia Block

(2011) Jin-Hai Yu et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Episodic Precambrian crust growth: Evidence from U–Pb ages and Hf–O isotopes of zircon in the Nanhua Basin, central South China

(2011) Xuan-Ce Wang et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Highly evolved Archean basement beneath the western Cathaysia Block, South China

(2010) J.P. Zheng et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

U–Pb and Hf isotopic study of detrital zircons from the meta-sedimentary rocks in central Jiangxi Province, South China: Implications for the Neoproterozoic tectonic evolution of South China Block

(2010) Long-Ming Li et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Zircon U–Pb ages and Hf isotope compositions of the Mayuan migmatite complex, NW Fujian Province, Southeast China: Constraints on the timing and nature of a regional tectonothermal event associated with the Caledonian orogeny

(2010) Rui Liu et al.   LITHOS

Components and episodic growth of Precambrian crust in the Cathaysia Block, South China: Evidence from U–Pb ages and Hf isotopes of zircons in Neoproterozoic sediments

(2010) Jin-Hai Yu et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Magmatic and metamorphic events during the early Paleozoic Wuyi-Yunkai orogeny, southeastern South China: New age constraints and pressure-temperature conditions

(2009) Z. X. Li et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Two-stage collision-related extrusion of the western Dabie HP–UHP metamorphic terranes, central China: Evidence from quartz c-axis fabrics and structures

(2009) Sanzhong Li et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Evolution of the Yunkai Terrane, South China: Evidence from SHRIMP zircon U–Pb dating, geochemistry and Nd isotope

(2009) Yusheng Wan et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Amalgamation between the Yangtze and Cathaysia Blocks in South China: Constraints from SHRIMP U–Pb zircon ages, geochemistry and Nd–Hf isotopes of the Shuangxiwu volcanic rocks

(2009) Xian-Hua Li et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

A Paleoproterozoic orogeny recorded in a long-lived cratonic remnant (Wuyishan terrane), eastern Cathaysia Block, China

(2009) Jin-Hai Yu et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Paleoproterozoic basement beneath the southern Jiangxi Province: Evidence from U-Pb ages and Lu-Hf isotopes in zircons from the Doushui lamprophyre

(2009) JinHai Yu et al.   Science Bulletin

Phanerozoic tectonics of south China block: New insights from the polyphase deformation in the Yunkai massif

(2008) Wei Lin et al.   TECTONICS

A new model for the Indochina and South China collision during the Late Permian to the Middle Triassic

(2008) Jian-Xin Cai et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

U-Pb zircon geochronology and Hf isotope study of metamorphosed basic-ultrabasic rocks from metamorphic basement in southwestern Zhejiang: The response of the Cathaysia Block to Indosinian orogenic event

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

Caledonian reworking of Paleoproterozoic basement in the Cathaysia Block: Constraints from zircon U-Pb dating, Hf isotopes and trace elements

(2008) Wen Zeng et al.   Science Bulletin

In situ simultaneous determination of trace elements, U-Pb and Lu-Hf isotopes in zircon and baddeleyite

(2008) LieWen Xie et al.   Science Bulletin