A Devonian to Carboniferous intra-oceanic subduction system in Western Junggar, NW China

A Late Carboniferous–Early Permian slab window in the West Junggar of NW China: Geochronological and geochemical evidence from mafic to intermediate dikes

“…The oceanic slabs on both sides ceased to grow as a result of the high temperature conditions and a slab window opened (Geng et al, 2009;Ma et al, 2012;Tang et al, 2012b,c;Zhang et al, 2011b). The slab became progressively younger and hotter towards the subducting ridge (Sisson et al, 2003).…”

The brackish-water bivalve Waagenoperna from the Lower Jurassic Badaowan Formation of the Junggar Basin and its palaeoenvironmental and palaeogeographic significance

“…It is one of the largest accretionary orogens and formed by NeoproterozoicePalaeozoic successive amalgamation of allochthonous oceanic and pericratonic terranes and island arcs, although its tectonic evolution history is under debating (e.g. Sengör et al, 1993; Lamb and Badarch, 1997; Khain et al, 2003;Jahn et al, 2004;Xiao et al, 2004Xiao et al, , 2010Windley et al, 2007;Kröner et al, 2008;Gao et al, 2009;Geng et al, 2009a, b;Biske and Seltman, 2010;Lehmann et al, 2010;Wang et al, 2010;Ren et al, 2011;Zhang et al, 2011). The Junggar Basin experienced complicated accretionary and collisional processes, which is indicated by a series of suture zones.…”

Kinematics of syn-tectonic unconformities and implications for the tectonic evolution of the Hala'alat Mountains at the northwestern margin of the Junggar Basin, Central Asian Orogenic Belt

“…1). These mountains are generally considered as a Carboniferous accretionary complex (Xiao et al, 2008;Geng et al, 2009;Tang et al, 2010;Zhang et al, 2011a;Choulet et al, 2012b) and include turbidites , tuff (Zhang et al, 2011a), greywacke (Guo et al, 2010;Choulet et al, 2012a,b), and the Durbut and Baijiantan ophiolites, which were split ca. 100 km apart by the Permian Durbut sinistral slip fault (Choulet et al, 2012b).…”