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Abstract. The largest tract of ultrahigh-pressure rocks, the Dabie-Hong'an area of China, was exhumed from 125 km depth by a combination of normal-sense shear from beneath the hanging wall Sino-Korean craton, southeastward thrusting onto the footwall Yangtze craton, and orogenparallel eastward extrusion. Prior to exhumation the UHP slab extended into the mantle a downdip distance of 125-200 km at its eastern end, whereas it was subducted perhaps only 20-30 km at its far western end ~200 km away. Structural reconstructions imply that the slab was > 10 km thick. In the Hong'an area (Figures 1 and 2), blueschist-facies rocks are more widespread, and a distinct eclogite-retrogressed-toamphibolite unit has been mapped, in addition to quartz eclogite and coesite eclogite. Also, a wider variety of Paleozoic metamorphic rocks crop out in E-W trending fault-bounded units

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