Destruction of North China Craton: Insights from temporal and spatial evolution of the proto-basins and magmatism

Li, Hongyan

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“…Eventually, a Permian continental clastic basin formed in the NCC. Triassic-Jurassic red beds and conglomerates, as well as Jurassic-Early Cretaceous terrestrial volcanic and clastic sediments, were deposited in intracontinental basins unconformably on the basement or on the late Paleozoic sedimentary rocks (Qi et al, 2003;Li, 2013). The Mesozoic-Cenozoic basins, covering most of the NCC, include the Ordos Basin in the west and the Bohai Bay and southern NCC basins in the east (Fig.…”

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“…The eastern NCC experienced three episodes of basin development and subsequent uplift in the late Paleozoic-Mesozoic (Li, 2013): (1) large-scale intracratonic basin in the late Paleozoic-Early Triassic and subsequent uplift in the Late Triassic, (2) some small basins in the Jurassic, and (3) widely distributed rift basins in the Early Cretaceous and regional uplift in the Late Cretaceous (Qi et al, 2003;Xu et al, 2009b;Li, 2013; and references therein).…”

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“…4b (Qi et al, 2003). However, the eastern NCC is lack of almost all the Triassic and part of the late Paleozoic sediments, suggesting a denudation of 2000-3000 m of late Paleozoic-Middle Triassic sediments during the Late Triassic and that the eastern NCC might be a source region for basins in the central-western NCC in the Late Triassic (Qi et al, 2003;Xu et al, 2009b;Li, 2013). (4) Paleocurrent analysis revealed that the Yan'an area of the Ordos Basin mainly received easterly and northeasterly derived detritus in the Late Triassic (Liu, 2009), indicating that the eastern NCC might be a source region of the Ordos Basin at that time.…”

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“…Thus verification of the paleo-plateau hypothesis is important in constraining the evolution of the NCC. However, recent research revealed that the western Shandong-Bohai Bay basins, the western Liaoning basins, and the Xishan Basin to the west of Beijing had received some detritus from the southeastern Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB) in the latest Late Triassic-Jurassic Meng et al, 2010;Li et al, 2013), suggesting that the eastern NCC would be a subsidence rather than an elevation in the Jurassic-Early Cretaceous Li, 2013). The subsidence might be attributed to thermo-chemical erosion of the lithosphere by underlying convective mantle (e.g., Menzies et al, 1993;Griffin et al, 1998;Xu, 2001;Li et al, 2013).…”

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“…The paleogeographic evolution of the eastern NCC in the Mesozoic has not yet been well evaluated because the Late Triassic strata of the central part of the eastern NCC were totally removed (Qi et al, 2003;Li, 2013). This paper reports in situ laser-ablation inductivity coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) U-Pb and multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (MC-ICP-MS) Hf-isotope analyses on zircons of the Late Triassic and Jurassic sandstones from the Ordos, Jiyuan, and Ningwu basins ( Fig.…”

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Constraints on the paleogeographic evolution of the North China Craton during the Late Triassic–Jurassic

Huang

2013

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

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Constraints on the paleogeographic evolution of the North China Craton during the Late Triassic–Jurassic

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2013

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Destruction of the North China Craton: a perspective based on receiver function analysis

Dong

Santosh

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The North China Craton (NCC), which is composed of the eastern NCC and the western NCC sutured by the Palaeoproterozoic Trans-North China Orogen, is one of the oldest continental nuclei in the world and the largest cratonic block in China. The eastern NCC is widely known for its significant lithospheric thinning and destruction during the Late Mesozoic. Models on the destruction of the eastern NCC can be principally grouped into two: (1) thermal/mechanical and/or chemical erosion, and (2) lower crustal and (or) lithospheric delamination. The erosion model suggests that the NCC lithospheric thinning resulted from chemical and/or mechanical interactions of lithospheric mantle with melts or hydrous fluids derived from the asthenosphere, whereas the delamination model proposes lithospheric destruction through foundering of eclogitic lower crust together with lithospheric mantle into the underlying convecting mantle. However, those models lack seismic evidence to explain the destruction process. Here, we analyse the crustal structure and upper mantle discontinuity by employing the H-k stacking technique of receiver function as well as the depth domain receiver function. Our results indicate deep mantle upwelling and lower crustal delamination beneath the eastern NCC, and suggest that either or both of these processes contributed to the unique lithospheric thinning and destruction of the eastern NCC.

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Differential exhumation of Jiaodong Peninsula during Early Cretaceous: Evidence from detrital zircon U–Pb isotopic dating

Gao

Zhong

2019

Geological Journal

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The significant Late Mesozoic thinning of lithospheric mantle in eastern China caused the formation of many basins and intensive volcanism. Crust exhumation process is a crucial part of supracrust response of lithosphere destruction. It has been studied in order to constrain the model of Late Mesozoic thinning of lithospheric mantle. The Sulu orogenic belt and the Jiaobei Terrane underwent a substantial exhumation process in Early Cretaceous, and though many studies have been carried out to investigate its exhumation history, it is still lacking understanding. Extensional terrestrial domain of the Jiaolai Basin was formed along with the Early Cretaceous exhumation of the Jiaobei Terrane and the Sulu orogenic belt. It provides an ideal research object for studying the exhumation process of Jiaodong Peninsula in Early Cretaceous because of the continuous sedimentary record in the basin. In this study, we analysed detrital zircon geochronology of three sandstone samples from Early Cretaceous sediments in north‐eastern part of the Jiaolai Basin. Detrital zircon age spectrums indicate that zircon ages consist mainly of six clusters, and they comprise Neoarchean ages, Palaeoproterozoic ages, Neoproterozoic ages, Triassic ages, Jurassic ages, and Early Cretaceous ages. The study shows that the Jiaobei Terrane and the Sulu orogenic belt served as source areas that provided detrital materials for Early Cretaceous strata in the Jiaolai Basin. Our results, along with those of previous studies, suggest that Jiaobei Terrane and the Sulu orogenic belt in Jiaodong Peninsula had discrepant exhumation history in Early Cretaceous.

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Destruction of North China Craton: Insights from temporal and spatial evolution of the proto-basins and magmatism

Cited by 26 publications

References 45 publications

Constraints on the paleogeographic evolution of the North China Craton during the Late Triassic–Jurassic

Constraints on the paleogeographic evolution of the North China Craton during the Late Triassic–Jurassic

Destruction of the North China Craton: a perspective based on receiver function analysis

Differential exhumation of Jiaodong Peninsula during Early Cretaceous: Evidence from detrital zircon U–Pb isotopic dating

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