North China Paraplatform

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development chronology

  • TITLE: Asia (continent)
    SECTION: Chronological summary
    In the North China paraplatform, Chinese geologists have identified a period of intense island-arc magmatism (a process by which molten rock, often formed by the melting of subducted oceanic crust, rises and solidifies to form igneous rock) between 3.5 and 3 billion years ago. These arcs then coalesced into protonuclei by collisions until the end of the Archean Eon (2.5 billion years...

paleotectonic evolution of Asia

  • TITLE: Asia (continent)
    SECTION: Tectonic framework
    ...East Siberian), Indian, and Arabian platforms. There are also several smaller platforms that were deformed to a greater extent than the larger units and are called paraplatforms; these include the North China (or Sino-Korean) and Yangtze paraplatforms, the Kontum block (in Southeast Asia), and the North Tarim fragment (also called Serindia; in western China). The orogenic zones consist of...

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