How many sutures in the southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Insights from East Xinjiang–West Gansu (NW China)?

How many sutures in the southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Insights from East Xinjiang–West Gansu (NW China)?

How ophiolitic mélanges can be defined as sutures is controversial with regard to accretionary orogenesis and continental growth. The Chinese Altay, East Junggar, Tianshan, and Beishan belts of the southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB) in Northwest China, offer a special natural laboratory to...

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Main Authors: Wenjiao Xiao, Chunming Han, Wei Liu, Bo Wan, Ji'en Zhang, Songjian Ao, Zhiyong Zhang, Dongfang Song, Zhonghua Tian, Jun Luo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014-07-01
Series:Geoscience Frontiers
Subjects:
Major suture
Paleogeographic separation
Accretionary complex
Intra-oceanic arc
Southern CAOB
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987114000619

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