Browsing Earth and Environmental Sciences by Subject "Beishan"
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EVOLUTION OF MULTI-ARC ACCRETION SYSTEMS: A CASE STUDY FROM THE SOUTHERN BEISHAN OROGEN, CENTRAL ASIAN OROGENIC BELT, NW CHINA
(University of Waterloo, 2023-12-18)The Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB) is characterized as an accretionary orogen, evolved for ca. 800 m.y from late Mesoproterozoic to early Mesozoic. Its terminal collision and accretion generally commenced in the west ... -
Fold-and-thrust belt deformation of the Hongliuhe Group: a Permian tectonic closure record of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt, NW China
(University of Waterloo, 2011-05-20)The Early Permian strata of the Hongliuhe Group, NW China, experienced a thin-skinned fold-and-thrust belt style of deformation that recorded the final stages of amalgamation of the Beishan orogenic collage, a part of the ... -
PETROLOGY, TECTONIC SETTING, AND REGIONAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE OPHIOLITIC LIUYUAN COMPLEX, NW CHINA
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-03)Located along the southern margin of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB), the mafic 290-280 Ma Liuyuan Complex stratigraphy and tectonic setting have been controversial for decades. Here, the results of a detailed field ...