Polyphase Mesozoic tectonics in the eastern part of the North China Block: Insights from the eastern Liaoning Peninsula massif (NE China)

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 280, Issue , 2007, Pages 153-170

  Lin, Wei ^a   Faure, M ^b   Monie P ^c   Wang, Q C ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

^c UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; COOLING; CRATON; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; EXHUMATION; FOLD; GEODYNAMICS; LINEATION; MESOZOIC; PALEOZOIC; PLUTON; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; SHEAR ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THRUST;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LIAONING; NORTH CHINA BLOCK; SOUTH CHINA BLOCK;

EID: 34447576627     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP280.7     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. ALLEN, M. B., MACDONALD, D. I., ZHAO, X., VINCENT, S. & BROUET-MENZIES, C. 1997. Early Cenozoic two-phase extension and late Cenozoic thermal subsidence and inversion of the Bohai Basin, Northern China. Marine Petroleum Geology, 14, 951-972.
2. DARBY, B. J., DAVIS, G. A., ZHANG, X., WU, F., WILDE, S. & YANG, J. 2004. The newly discovered Waziyu metamorphic core complex, Yiwulushan, Western Liaoning province, Northwest China. Earth Science Frontiers, 11, 145-155.
3. DAVIS, G. A., QIAN, X., ZHENG, Y. ET AL. 1996. Mesozoic deformation and plutonism in the Yunmeng Shan: A Chinese metamorphic core complex north of Beijing, China. In: YIN, A. & HARRISON, T. A. (eds) The Tectonic Evolution of Asia. Cambridge University Press, New York, 253-280.
4. DAVIS, G. A., ZHENG, Y., WANG, C., DARBY, B. J., ZHANG, C. & GEHRELS, G. E. 2001. Mesozoic tectonic evolution of the Yanshan fold and thrust belt, with emphasis on Hebei and Liaoning provinces, northern China. In: HENDRIX, M. S. & DAVIS, G. A. (eds) Paleozoic and Mesozoic Tectonic Evolution of Central Asia: From Continental Assembly to Intracontinental Deformation. Geological Society of American, Memoirs, 194, 171-194.
5. DAVIS, G. A., DARBY, B. J., ZHENG, Y. & SPELL, T. L. 2002. Geometric and temporal evolution of an extensional detachment fault, Hohhot metamorphic core complex, Inner Mongolia, China. Geology, 30, 1003-1006.
6. FAN, W. M. & MENZIES, M. A. 1992. Destruction of aged lower lithosphere and asthenosphere mantle beneath eastern China. Geotectonica et Metallogenia, 16, 171-179 [in Chinese with English abstract].
7. FAURE, M., SUN, Y., SHU, L., MONIÉ, P. & CHARVET, J. 1996. Extensional tectonics within a subduction-type orogen. The case study of the Wugongshan dome (Jiangxi Province, SE China). Tectonophysics, 263, 77-108.
8. FAURE, M., LIN, W., SHU, L., SUN, Y. & SCHÄRER, U. 1999. Tectonics of the Dabieshan (Eastern China) and possible exhumation mechanism of ultra-high pressure rocks. Terra Nova, 11, 251-258.
9. FAURE, M., LIN, W. & LE BRETON, N. 2001. Where is the North China-South China Blocks boundary in Eastern China? Geology, 29 119-122.
10. FAURE, M., LIN, W., MONIÉ, P., LE BRETON, N., POUSSINEAU, S., PANIS, D. & DELOULE, E. 2003. Exhumation tectonics of the ultra high-pressure metamorphic rocks in the Qinling orogen in East China. New petrological-structural-radiometric insights from the Shandong peninsula. Tectonics, 22, 1018-1039.
11. FAURE, M., LIN, W., MONIÉ, P. & BRUGUIER, O. 2004. Paleoproterozoic collision tectonics in NE China: New evidence for a 2 Ga magmatic arc in Liaodong Peninsula. Terra Nova, 16, 75-80.
12. GAO, S., RUDNICK, R. L., CARLSON, R. W., MCDONOUGH, W. F. & LIU, Y. S. 2002. Re-Os evidence for replacement of ancient mantle lithosphere beneath the North China Craton. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 198, 307-322.
13. HACKER, B. R., RATSCHBACHER, L., WEBB, L. & DONG, S. 1995. What brought them up? Exhumation of the Dabieshan ultrahigh-pressure rocks. Geology, 23, 743-746.
14. HACKER, B. R., RATSCHBACHER, L., WEBB, L., IRELAND, T., WALKER, D. & DONG, S. 1998. U/Pb zircon ages constrain the architecture of the ultrahigh-pressure Qinling-Dabie orogen, China. Earth and Planetary. Science Letters, 161, 215-230.
15. HUANG, T. K. 1945. On the Major Tectonic Forms of China. Geological Memoirs, Series A, 20.
16. LBGMR (Liaoning Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources) 1989. Regional Geology of Liaoning Province. Geological Publishing House, Beijing [in Chinese].
17. LIN, W., FAURE, M., MONIÉ, P., SCHÄRER, U., ZHANG, L. & SUN, Y. 2000. Tectonics of SE China, new insights from the Lushan massif (Jiangxi Province). Tectonics, 19, 852-871.
18. LIN, W., CHEN, Y., FAURE, M. & WANG, Q. 2003. Tectonic implications of new Late Cretaceous paleomagnetic constraints from Eastern Liaoning Peninsula, NE China. Journal of Geophysical Research 108(B6), 2313, doi:10.1029/2002JB002169.
19. LIN, W., FAURE, M., MONIÉ, P., SCHÄRER, U. & PANIS, D. 2006. Mesozoic extensional tectonics in Eastern Asia: The South-Liaodong Peninsula metamorphic core complex (NE China). Tectonics, (submitted).
20. LISTER, G. S. & DAVIS, G. A. 1989. The origin of metamorphic core complexes and detachment faults formed during Tertiary continental extension in the northern Colorado River region, U.S.A. Journal of Structural Geology, 11, 65-94.
21. LIU, J., DAVIS, G., LIN, Z. & WU, F. 2005. The Liaonan metamorphic core complex, Southeastern Liaoning Province, North China: A likely contributor to Cretaceous rotation of Eastern Liaoning, Korea and contiguous areas. Tectonophysics, 407, 65-80.
22. MA, Y., CUI, S., WU, G., WU, H., ZHU, D., LI, X. & FENG, X. 1999. The structural feature of metamorphic core complex in Yiwulüshan Mountains, West Liaoning. Acta Geoscientia Sinica, 20, 385-391 [in Chinese with English Abstract].
23. MATTAUER, M., MATTE, P., MALAVIEILLE, J. ET AL. 1985. Tectonics of the Qinling Belt: Build-up and evolution of Eastern Asia. Nature, 317, 496-500.
24. MATTAUER, M., MATTE, P., MALUSKI, H., XU, Z., ZHANG, Q. & WANG, Y. 1991. La limite Chine du Nord-Chine du Sud au Paléozoïque et au Trias: Nouvelles données structurales et radiométriques dans le massif du Dabieshan (chaîne des Qinling). Comptes Rendus de l' Académie des Sciences, 312, 1227-1233.
25. MENG, Q. & ZHANG, G. R. 1999. Timing of collision of North and South China blocks: Controversy and reconciliation. Geology, 27 123-126.
26. MENG, Q., HU, J., JIN, J., ZHANG, Y. & XU, D. 2003. Tectonics of the late Mesozoic wide extensional basin system in the China-Mongolia border region. Basin Research, 15, 397-415.
27. MENZIES, M. A., FAN, W. M. & ZHANG, M. 1993. Palaeozoic and Cenozoic lithoprobes and the loss of>120 km of Archean lithosphere, Sino-Korean craton, China. In: PRICHARD, H. M., ALABASTER, T., HARRIS, N. B. W. & NEARY, C. R. (eds) Magmatic Processes and Plate Tectonics. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 76 71-81.
28. NI, Z., ZHAI M., WANG, R. & TONG, Y. 2004. Retrograde eclogites on the Northern margin of North China Craton, Hebei Province, China: mineral chemistry and retrogressive metamorphism. Acta Mineralogica Sinica, 24, 381-390 [in Chinese with English abstract].
29. OKAY, A., SENGÖR, A. M. C. & SATIR, M. 1993. Tectonics of an ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic terrane: The Dabieshan/Tongbaishan orogen, China. Tectonics, 12, 1320-1334.
30. RATSCHBACHER, L., HACKER, B. R., WEBB, L. ET AL. 2000. Exhumation of ultrahigh-pressure continental crust in east central China: Cretaceous and Cenozoic unroofing and the Tan-Lu fault. Journal of Geophysical Research, 105, 13303-13338.
31. REN, J., KENSAKU, T., LI S. & ZHANG, J. 2002. Late Mesozoic and Cenozoic rifting and its dynamic setting in Eastern China and adjacent areas. Tectonophysics, 344, 175-205.
32. TRAYNOR, J. J. & SLADEN, C. 1995. Tectonic and stratigraphic evolution of the Mongolian People's Republic and its influence on hydrocarbon geology and potential. Marine Petroleum Geology, 12 35-52.
33. WALLIS, S., TSUBOI, M., SUZUKI, K., FANNING, M., JIANG, L. & TANAKA, T. 2005. Role of partial melting in the evolution of the Sulu (eastern China) ultrahigh-pressure terrane. Geology, 33, 129-132.
34. WANG, G., JIANG, B., CAO, D., ZOU, H. & JIN, W. 1998. On the Xuzhou-Suzhou arcuated duplex-imbricate fan thrust system. Acta Geologica Sinica, 72, 229-236 [in Chinese with English abstract].
35. WANG, Q. & LIU, X. 1986. Paleoplate tectonics between Cathaysia and Angaraland in Inner Mongolia of China. Tectonics, 5, 1073-1088.
36. WANG, T., ZHENG, Y., LI, T. & GAO, Y. 2004. Mesozoic magmatism in extensional tectonics near the Mongolian border in China and its implications for crustal growth. Journal of Asia Earth Sciences, 23, 715-729.
37. WANG, X., LIOU, J. & MAO, H. K. 1989. Coesite-bearing eclogite from the Dabie mountain in Central China. Geology, 17, 1085-1088.
38. WATSON, M. P., HAYWARD, A. B., PARKINSON, D. N. & ZHANG, Z. M. 1987. Plate tectonic history, basin development and petroleum source rock deposition onshore China. Marine Petroleum Geology, 4, 205-225.
39. WU, F. & YANG, J. 2005. Geochronological framework of the Mesozoic granitic magmatism in the Liaodong Peninsula, Northeast China. Geological Journal of China Universities, 11, 305-317 [in Chinese with English abstract].
40. WU, F., LIN, J., WILDE, S. A., ZHANG, X. & YANG, J. 2005a. Nature and significance of the Early Cretaceous giant igneous event in eastern China. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 233, 103-119.
41. WU, F., YANG, J., WILDE, S. A. & ZHANG, X. 2005b. Geochronology, petrogenesis and tectonic implications of the Jurassic granites in the Liaodong Peninsula, NE China. Chemical Geology, 221, 127-156.
42. XIAO, W., WINDLEY, B. F., HAO, J. & ZHAI, M. 2003. Accretion leading to collision and the Permian Solonker suture, Inner Mongolia, China: Termination of the Central Asian orogenic belt. Tectonics, 22, doi:10.1029/2002TC001484.
43. XU, S. T., OKAY, A. I., JI, S., SENGÖR, A. M. C., SU, W., LIU, Y. & JIANG, L. L. 1992. Diamond from the Dabie Shan metamorphic rocks and its implication for tectonic setting. Science, 256, 78-82.
44. YANG, J. & SMITH, D. C. 1989. Evidence for a former sanidine-coesite eclogite at Lanshantou, eastern China, and the recognition of the Chinese 'Su-Lu Coesite-Eclogite Province'. Third International Eclogite Conference at Wurzburg, Terra Abstracts, 26.
45. YIN, A. & NIE, S. 1993. An indentation model for the north and south China collision and the development of the Tan-Lu and Honam fault systems, eastern China. Tectonics, 12, 801-813.
46. YIN, A. & NIE, S. 1996. A Phanerozoic palinspastic reconstruction of China and its neighboring regions. In: YIN, A. & HARRISON, T. A. (eds) The Tectonic Evolution of Asia. Cambridge University Press, New York, 442-485.
47. ZHAI, M., MENG, Q., LIU, J. ET AL. 2004. Geological features of Mesozoic tectonic regime inversion in Eastern North China and implication for geodynamics. Earth Science Frontiers, 11, 285-297 [in Chinese with English abstract].
48. ZHAO, Y., YANG, Z. & MA, X. 1994. Geotectonic transition from Paleoasian system and Paleotethyan system to Paleopacific active continental margin in Eastern Asia. Scientia Geologica Sinica, 29, 105-119 [in Chinese with English abstract].
49. ZHAO, Y., XU, G., ZHANG, Q., YANG, Z., ZHANG, Y. & HU, J. 2004. Yanshanian movement and conversion of tectonic regimes in Eastern Asia. Earth Science Frontiers, 11, 328 [in Chinese with English abstract].