“…The Qinling‐Dabie‐Sulu Orogen is located to the north margin of the SCB, which is adjoined to the Indosinian Block by the Red River Fault to the southwest (Li, Santosh, Zhao, Zhang, & Jin, ; K. Qiu & Deng, ; K. Qiu, Marsh, Yu, Pfaff, Gulbransen, Gou, & Li, ; K. Qiu et al, ). The Yangtze and Cathaysia blocks were amalgamated together to form the united SCC during the late Neoproterozoic (D. Xu et al, ; Yao, Shu, & Santosh, ; Yao, Shu, Santosh, & Li, ; Yao, Shu, Cawood, & Li, ; Yin et al, ; L. Zhao, Guo, et al, ; K. Zhao, Jiang, et al, ). However, during the later Neoproterozoic and early‐middle Ordovician, the SCB split again, resulting in a complex intracontinental rift arrangement (K. Qiu et al, ).…”