Late Permian to Triassic intraplate orogeny of the southern Tianshan and adjacent regions, NW China

Allen, 1999, Late Cenozoic tectonics of the Kepingtage thrust zone: interactions of the Tien Shan and Tarim Basin, northwest China, Tectonics, 18, 639, 10.1029/1999TC900019 Allen, 1992, Palaeozoic collisional tectonics and magmatism of the Chinese Tienshan, Central Asia, Tectonophysics, 220, 89, 10.1016/0040-1951(93)90225-9 Allen, 1994, Cenozoic tectonics in the Urumqi-Korla region of the Chinese Tien Shan, Geologische Rundschau, 83, 406, 10.1007/BF00210554 Bakirov, 2000, Information about geology of the Kyrgyz Republic (Kyrgyzstan), International Consortium of Geological Surveys Asia-Pacific News Letter, 3, 4 Badarch, 2002, A new terrane subdivision for Mongolia: implications for the Phanerozoic crustal growth of Central Asia, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 21, 87, 10.1016/S1367-9120(02)00017-2 Bazhenov, 2003, Paleozoic northward drift of the North Tien Shan (Central Asia) as revealed by Ordovician and Carboniferous paleomagnetism, Tectonophysics, 366, 113, 10.1016/S0040-1951(03)00075-1 BGMRXUAR (Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region), 1993 Biske, 1995, Late Paleozoic collision of the Tarimskiy and Kirghiz-Kazakh paleocontinents, Geotectonics, 29, 26 Biske, 2010, Paleozoic Tian-Shan as a transitional region between the Rhetic and Urals-Turkestan oceans, Gondwana Research, 17, 602, 10.1016/j.gr.2009.11.014 Burtman, 2006, The Tien Shan Early Paleozoic tectonics and geodynamics, Russian Journal of Earth Sciences, 8, ES3003, 10.2205/2006ES000202 Burtman, 2008, Nappes of the southern Tien Shan, Russian Journal of Earth Sciences, 10, ES1006, 10.2205/2007ES000223 Bykadorov, 2003, Ordovician-Permian palaeogeography of central Eurasia: development of Palaeozoic petroleum-bearing basins, Journal of Petroleum Geology, 26, 325, 10.1111/j.1747-5457.2003.tb00033.x Carroll, 1995, Late Paleozoic tectonic amalgamation of northwestern China: sedimentary record of the northern Tarim, northwestern Turpan, and southern Junggar Basins, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 107, 571, 10.1130/0016-7606(1995)107<0571:LPTAON>2.3.CO;2 Charvet, 2007, Paleozoic structural and geodynamic evolution of eastern Tianshan (NW China): welding of the Tarim and Junggar plates, Episodes, 30, 162 Charvet, 2011, Palaeozoic tectonic evolution of the Tianshan belt, NW China, Science China – Earth Sciences, 54, 166, 10.1007/s11430-010-4138-1 Che, 1994, 135 Chen, 1999, Closing history of the southern Tianshan oceanic basin, western China: an oblique collisional orogeny, Tectonophysics, 302, 23, 10.1016/S0040-1951(98)00273-X Chen, 2011, The Mesozoic palaeorelief of the northern Tian Shan (China), Terra Nova, 23, 195, 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2011.00999.x Coleman, 1989, Continental growth of Northwest China, Tectonics, 8, 621, 10.1029/TC008i003p00621 de Jong, 2009, New 40Ar/39Ar age constraints on the Late Palaeozoic tectonic evolution of the western Tianshan (Xinjiang, northwestern China), with emphasis on Permian fluid ingress, International Journal of Earth Sciences, 98, 1239, 10.1007/s00531-008-0338-8 Deng, 2008, Precambrian tectonism, magmatism, deformation and geochronology of igneous rocks in the Xingdi fault zone, Xinjiang, Acta Petrologica Sinica, 24, 2800 Dewey, 1988, The tectonic evolution of the Tibetan Plateau, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 327, 379, 10.1098/rsta.1988.0135 Dong, 2011, Syn- and post-collisional granitoids in the Central Tianshan orogen: geochemistry, geochronology and implications for tectonic evolution, Gondwana Research, 20, 568, 10.1016/j.gr.2011.01.013 Gao, 2003, Formation of HP-LT rocks and their tectonic implications in the western Tianshan Orogen, NW China: geochemical and age constraints, Lithos, 66, 1, 10.1016/S0024-4937(02)00153-6 Gao, 2011, The collision between the Yili and Tarim cratons of the southwestern Altaids: geochemical and age constraints of a leucogranite dike crosscutting the HP-LT metamorphic belt in the Chinese Tianshan Orogen, Tectonophysics, 499, 118, 10.1016/j.tecto.2011.01.001 Gao, 1998, Paleozoic tectonic evolution of the Tianshan orogen, northwestern China, Tectonophysics, 287, 213, 10.1016/S0040-1951(97)00211-4 Gao, 2009, Tectonic evolution of the South Tianshan orogen and adjacent regions, NW China: geochemical and age constraints of granitoid rocks, International Journal of Earth Sciences, 98, 1221, 10.1007/s00531-008-0370-8 Gao, 2006, South Tianshan: a late Paleozoic or a Triassic Orogen, Acta Petrologica Sinica, 22, 1049 Guo, 2005, Geochronology and geochemistry of deep drill-core samples from the basement of the central Tarim Basin, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 25, 45, 10.1016/j.jseaes.2004.01.016 Guo, 2003, U-Pb geochronological evidence for the early Pre-Cambrian complex of the Tarim Craton, NW China, Acta Petrologica Sinica, 19, 537 Han, 2010, Timing of major suture zones in North Xinjiang, China: constraints from stitching plutons, Acta Petrologica Sinica, 26, 2233 Han, 2011, Late Carboniferous collision between the Tarim and Laurasia or North-Asian continents in the western segment of the South Tian Shan Orogen, Central Asia, and implications for the Northern Xinjiang, western China, Earth-Science Reviews, 109, 74, 10.1016/j.earscirev.2011.09.001 Hao, 1993, Ophiolite melange time and tectonic evolution model in south Tianshan area, Scientia Geologica Sinica, 28, 93 Hendrix, 2000, Evolution of Mesozoic sandstone compositions, southern Junggar, northern Tarim and western Turpan basins, northwest China: a detrital record of the ancestral Tian Shan, Journal of Sedimentary Research, 70, 520, 10.1306/2DC40924-0E47-11D7-8643000102C1865D Hendrix, 1992, Sedimentary record and climatic implications of current deformation in the Tian Shan: evidence from Mesozoic strata of the north Tarim, south Junggar, and Turpan basins, northwest China, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 104, 53, 10.1130/0016-7606(1992)104<0053:SRACIO>2.3.CO;2 Hegner, 2010, Mineralogy ages and P-T conditions of late Paleozoic high-pressure eclogite and provenance of melange sediments in the South Tianshan Orogen of Kyrgyzstan, American Journal of Science, 310, 916, 10.2475/09.2010.07 Jahn, 2004, Phanerozoic continental growth in Central Asia, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 23, 599, 10.1016/S1367-9120(03)00124-X Jahn, 2000, Massive granitoid generation in Central Asia: Nd isotope evidence and implication for continental growth in the Phanerozoic, Episodes, 23, 82, 10.18814/epiiugs/2000/v23i2/001 Jolivet, 2010, Mesozoic and Cenozoic tectonic history of the Central Chinese Tian Shan: reactivated tectonic structures and active deformation, Tectonics, 29, TC6019, 10.1029/2010TC002712 Khain, 2002, The most ancient ophiolites of the Central Asian fold belt: U-Pb and Pb-Pb zircon ages for the Dunzhugur complex, Eastern Sayan, Siberia, and geodynamic implications, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 199, 311, 10.1016/S0012-821X(02)00587-3 Khain, 2003, The Paleo-Asian ocean in the Proterozoic and early Palaeozoic: new geochronologic data and palaeotectonic reconstructions, Precambrian Research, 122, 329, 10.1016/S0301-9268(02)00218-8 Klemd, 2005, New age constraints on the metamorphic evolution of the high-pressure/low-temperature belt in the western Tianshan Mountains, NW China, Journal of Geology, 113, 157, 10.1086/427666 Konopelko, 2007, Hercynian post-collisional a-type granites of the Kokshaal Range, Southern Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithos, 97, 140, 10.1016/j.lithos.2006.12.005 Konopelko, 2009, Possible source dichotomy of contemporaneous post-collisional barren I-type versus tin-bearing A-type granites, lying on opposite sides of the South Tien Shan, Ore Geology Reviews, 35, 206, 10.1016/j.oregeorev.2009.01.002 Kovalenko, 2004, Isotopic provinces, mechanism of generation and sources of the continental crust in the Central Asian mobile belt: geological and isotopic evidence, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 23, 605, 10.1016/S1367-9120(03)00130-5 Kröner, 2007, Accretionary growth and crust-formation in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt and comparison with the Arabian–Nubian shield, vol. 200, 181 Kröner, 2013, Reassessment of continental growth during the accretionary history of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt, Gondwana Research Laurent-Charvet, 2003, Late Paleozoic strike-slip shear zone in eastern central Asia (NW China): new structural and geochronological data, Tectonics, 22, 1099, 10.1029/2001TC901047 Li, 2005, Permo-Carboniferous radiolarians from the Wupata'erkan Group, Western South Tianshan, Xinjiang, China, Acta Geologica Sinica, 79, 16, 10.1111/j.1755-6724.2005.tb00863.x Li, 2002, Discovery of radiolarian fossils from the Aiketik Group distributed at the western end of the South Tianshan Mountains of China and its implications, Acta Geologica Sinica, 76, 146 Li, 2010, The collision time of south Tianshan orogen, NW China, Chinese Journal of Geology, 45, 57 Lin, 2009, Paleozoic tectonics of Southwestern Chinese Tianshan: new insights from a structural study of the high-pressure low-temperature metamorphic belt, International Journal of Earth Sciences, 98, 1259, 10.1007/s00531-008-0371-7 Liu, 2004, Petrochemistry and tectonic significance of Hercynian alkaline rocks along the northern margin of the Tarim platform and its adjacent area, Xinjiang Geology, 22, 43 Liu, 1995, A brief analysis of the tectonic movements on the Tarim plate and its surrounding areas, Acta Geoscientia Sinica, 3, 246 Long, 2008, Geochemistry and SHRIMP Zircon U-Pb age of postcollisional granites in the Southwest Tianshan Orogenic Belt of China: examples from the Heiyingshan and Laohutai plutons, Acta Geologica Sinica, 82, 415 Long, 2006, The geochemical characteristics and the age of the Kule Lake ophiolite in the southern Tianshan, Acta Petrologica Sinica, 22, 65 Lu, 2008, Geological and geochronological evidence for the Precambrian evolution of the Tarim Craton and surrounding continental fragments, Precambrian Research, 160, 94, 10.1016/j.precamres.2007.04.025 Ma, 1997, 202 Ma, 2007, Dating for zircons of gabbro from Kulehu ophiolite, southern Tianshan, and its geological implication, Journal of Northwest University (Natural Science Edition), 37, 107 Mikolaichuk, 1997, Main stages of geodynamic evolution of the North Tien Shan in the late Precambrian and early Paleozoic, Geotectonics, 31, 16 Molnar, 1975, Cenozoic tectonics of Asia: effects of a continental collision, Science, 189, 419, 10.1126/science.189.4201.419 Mossakovsky, 1993, Central Asian fold belt: geodynamic evolution and history of formation, Geotectonics, 6, 3 Pickering, 2008, Silurian-Devonian active-margin deep-marine systems and palaeogeography, Alai Range, Southern Tien Shan, Central Asia, Journal of the Geological Society of London, 165, 189, 10.1144/0016-76492006-082 Qian, 2009, Early Paleozoic tectonic evolution of the Chinese South Tianshan Orogen: constraints from SHRIMP zircon U-Pb geochronology and geochemistry of basaltic and dioritic rocks from Xiate, NW China, International Journal of Earth Sciences, 98, 551, 10.1007/s00531-007-0268-x Rojas-Agramonte, 2011, Detrital and xenocrystic zircon ages from Neoproterozoic to Palaeozoic arc terranes of Mongolia: significance for the origin of crustal fragments in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt, Gondwana Research, 19, 751, 10.1016/j.gr.2010.10.004 Safonova, 2009, Intraplate magmatism and oceanic plate stratigraphy of the Paleo-Asian and Paleo-Pacific Oceans from 600 to 140 Ma, Ore Geology Reviews, 35, 137, 10.1016/j.oregeorev.2008.09.002 Safonova, 2011, A new concept of continental construction in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt, Episodes, 34, 186, 10.18814/epiiugs/2011/v34i3/005 Safonova, 2013, Accretionary complexes in the Asia-Pacific region: tracing archives of ocean plate stratigraphy and tracking mantle plumes, Gondwana Research Sengor, 1996, Turkic-type orogeny and its role in the making of continental crust, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 24, 263, 10.1146/annurev.earth.24.1.263 Sengor, 1993, Evolution of the Altaid tectonic collage and Palaeozoic crustal growth in Eurasia, Nature, 364, 299, 10.1038/364299a0 Shi, 1994, Paleozoic plate tectonic evolution of Tarim and Western Tianshan regions, western China, International Geology Review, 36, 1058, 10.1080/00206819409465504 Shu, 1999, A large-scale Palaeozoic dextral ductile strike-slip zone: the Aqqikkudug-Weiya Zone along the northern margin of the Central Tianshan belt, Xinjiang, NW China, Acta Geologica Sinica, 73, 148, 10.1111/j.1755-6724.1999.tb00822.x Shu, 2004, Post-collision tectonism and basin-range evolution in the Tianshan belt, Geological Journal of China Universities, 10, 393 Shu, 2003, Polyphase tectonic events and Cenozoic basin-range coupling in the Tianshan Belt, northwestern China, Acta Geologica Sinica, 77, 457 Shu, 2007, Age and tectonic significance of radiolarian fossils from the Heiyingshan ophiolitic melange, southern Tianshan Belt, NW China, Acta Geologica Sinica, 81, 1 Solomovich, 2007, Postcollisional magmatism in the South Tien Shan Variscan orogenic belt, Kyrgyzstan: evidence for high-temperature and high-pressure collision, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 30, 142, 10.1016/j.jseaes.2006.08.003 Simonov, 2008, Cretaceous-Paleogene within-plate magmatism in the Central Asia: data from the Tien Shan basalts, Russian Geology and Geophysics, 49, 520, 10.1016/j.rgg.2008.06.009 Solomovish, 2002, Postcollisional granites in the South Tien Shan Variscan collisional belt, Kyrgyzstan, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 21, 7, 10.1016/S1367-9120(02)00008-1 Su, 2010, U-Pb zircon geochronology of Tianshan eclogites in NW China: implication for the collision between the Yili and Tarim cratons of the southwestern Altaids, European Journal of Mineralogy, 22, 473, 10.1127/0935-1221/2010/0022-2040 Sun, 2008, A further discussion of the petrogenesis and tectonic implication of the Mazhashan syenites in the Bachu area, Journal of Jilin University (Earth Science Edition), 38, 8 Tian, 2010, The Tarim picrite-basalt-rhyolite suite, a Permian flood basalt from northwest China with contrasting rhyolites produced by fractional crystallization and anatexis, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 160, 407, 10.1007/s00410-009-0485-3 Van der Voo, 2008, A Late Paleozoic orocline that developed in the Central Asian triangle between the converging Baltica, Siberia and Tarim cratons Wang, 2010, Structural and geochronological study of high-pressure metamorphic rocks in the Kekesu section (Northwestern China): implications for the late Paleozoic tectonics of the southern Tianshan, Journal of Geology, 118, 59, 10.1086/648531 Wang, 2007, Geochemical constraints on Carboniferous volcanic rocks of the Yili Block (Xinjiang, NW China): implication for the tectonic evolution of Western Tianshan, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 29, 148, 10.1016/j.jseaes.2006.02.008 Wang, 2011, Paleozoic tectonics of the southern Chinese Tianshan: insights from structural, chronological and geochemical studies of the Heiyingshan ophiolitic melange (NW China), Tectonophysics, 497, 85, 10.1016/j.tecto.2010.11.004 Wang, 2007, Paleozoic tectonism and magmatism of Kekesu-Qiongkushitai section in southwestern Chinese Tianshan and their constraints on the age of the orogeny, Acta Petrologica Sinica, 23, 1354 Wang, 2007, Geochronology, petrogenesis and signifye of Baleigong mafic rocks in Kokshal segment, southwest Tianshan Mountains, Geological Review, 53, 743 Wang, 2007, Late Paleozoic post-collisional magmatism in the Southwestern Tianshan orogenic belt, take the Baleigong pluton in the Kokshal region as an example, Acta Petrologica Sinica, 23, 1830 Wang, 1990, 1 Windley, 2007, Tectonic models for accretion of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt, Journal of the Geological Society of London, 164, 31, 10.1144/0016-76492006-022 Windley, 1990, Paleozoic accretion and Cenozoic redeformation of the Chinese Tien Shan range, Central Asia, Geology, 18, 128, 10.1130/0091-7613(1990)018<0128:PAACRO>2.3.CO;2 Xia, 2004, Petrogenesis of Carboniferous rift-related volcanic rocks in the Tianshan, northwestern China, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 116, 419, 10.1130/B25243.1 Xiao, 2008, Middle Cambrian to Permian subduction-related accretionary orogenesis of Northern Xinjiang, NW China: implications for the tectonic evolution of Central Asia, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 32, 102, 10.1016/j.jseaes.2007.10.008 Xiao, 2009, End-Permian to mid-Triassic termination of the accretionary processes of the southern Altaids: implications for the geodynamic evolution, Phanerozoic continental growth, and metallogeny of Central Asia, International Journal of Earth Sciences, 98, 1189, 10.1007/s00531-008-0407-z Xiao, 2004, Paleozoic accretionary and collisional tectonics of the eastern Tienshan (China): implications for the continental growth of Central Asia, American Journal of Science, 304, 370, 10.2475/ajs.304.4.370 Xiao, 1992, 169 Xu, 2005, U-Pb zircon geochronology and geochemistry of Neoproterozoic volcanic rocks in the Tarim craton of northwest China: implications for the breakup of Rodinia supercontinent and Neoproterozoic glaciations, Precambrian Research, 136, 107, 10.1016/j.precamres.2004.09.007 Xu, 2009, SHRIMP zircon U-Pb age constraints on Neoproterozoic Quruqtagh diamictites in NW China, Precambrian Research, 168, 247, 10.1016/j.precamres.2008.10.008 Yang, 2007, Permian bimodal dyke of Tarim Basin, NW China: geochemical characteristics and tectonic implications, Gondwana Research, 12, 113, 10.1016/j.gr.2006.10.018 Yang, 2009, Geochemistry of the 430-Ma Jingbulake mafic-ultramafic intrusion in Western Xinjiang, NW China: implications for subduction related magmatism in the South Tianshan orogenic belt, Lithos, 113, 259, 10.1016/j.lithos.2009.07.005 Yang, 2006, Earlier Devonian active continental arc in Central Tianshan: evidence of geochemical analyses and zircon SHRIMP dating on mylonitized granitic rock, Acta Petrologica Sinica, 22, 41 Yang, 2001, Study of the Paleogene paleomagnetism and the geological significance on both sides of the Red River fault, Acta Geologica Sinica, 75, 35 Yin, 1998, Late Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the southern Chinese Tian Shan, Tectonics, 17, 1, 10.1029/97TC03140 Yuan, 2006, Mesozoic-Tertiary exhumation history of the Altai Mountains, northern Xinjiang, China: new constraints from apatite fission track data, Tectonophysics, 412, 183, 10.1016/j.tecto.2005.09.007 Zhang, 2007, Geochronology, geochemistry and Sr-Nd isotopic composition and genesis implications of Huangjianshishan granite intrusion in Kumishi area of southern Tianshan, Acta Petrologica Sinica, 23, 1821 Zhang, 2005, The formation and tectonic evolution of the UHP metamorphic belt in southwestern Tianshan, Xinjiang, Acta Petrologica Sinica, 21, 1029 Zhang, 2007, Triassic collision of western Tianshan orogenic belt, China: evidence from SHRIMP U-Pb dating of zircon from HP/UHP eclogitic rocks, Lithos, 96, 266, 10.1016/j.lithos.2006.09.012 Zhang, 2008, Accurate constraint on formation and emplacement age of Hongliuhe ophiolite, boundary region between Xinjiang and Gansu Provinces and its tectonic implications, Acta Petrologica Sinica, 24, 803 Zhang, 2009, Geology and geochemistry of the Permian intermediate-acid intrusions in the southwestern Tianshan, Xinjiang: implications for petrogenesis and tectonics, Geological Bulletin of China, 28, 1827 Zhu, 2008, The age determination of Late Carboniferous intrusions in Mangqisu region and its constraints to the closure of oceanic basin in South Tianshan, Xinjiang, Acta Petrologica Sinica, 24, 2761 Zonenshain, 1990, Geology of the USSR: A Plate Tectonic Synthesis, 242