New paleomagnetic data from the Mongol–Okhotsk collision zone, Chita region, south-central Russia: implications for Paleozoic paleogeography of the Mongol–Okhotsk ocean

The marine Permian of East and Northeast Asia: an overview of biostratigraphy, palaeobiogeography and palaeogeographical implications

“…5). At this 'gateway' palaeogeographical position, the Sino-MongolianJapanese Province would have been influenced by both coldwater currents from the Mongol-Okhotsk Ocean in the north and the northward-deflected warm-water palaeoequatorial currents 68N Lin and Fuller, 1998 Data from Fujita and Newberry, 1982;Khramov and Ustritskiy, 1990;Smethurst et al, 1998;Kravchinskiy et al, 2002a,b;Xu et al, 1997;Sharps et al, 1992;Pruner, 1987;Tang, 1989;Zakharov and Sokarev, 1991;Zhu et al, 1998;Huang et al, 2001;Fang et al, 1990;McFadden and McElhinny, 1988;Hattori and Hirooka, 1979;Lin and Fuller, 1998. from the Palaeo-Tethys and Panathalassa to the south. It is probably, due to this unique tectono-palaeogeographical position, coupled with intermingled cold-and warm-water palaeocean currents, that a distinctively mixed cold-and warm-water marine biota became established in East Asia during the Middle Permian.…”

The Hulan Group: Its role in the evolution of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt of NE China

“…It has long been suggested that this collision took place in the Late Triassic (Zonenshain et al, 1985(Zonenshain et al, , 1990. But palaeomagnetic data suggest that they had amalgamated before the Late Permian and that the combined North China-Mongolian Block then collided with the Siberian Craton as a result of closure of the Mongol-Okhotsk ocean in the Late Jurassic (Zhao et al, 1990;Xu et al, 1997;Zorin, 1999;Kravchinsky et al, 2002).…”

Distant effects of India–Eurasia convergence and Mesozoic intracontinental deformation in Central Asia: Constraints from apatite fission-track thermochronology

“…Secondly, directly east of the Altai, the MongolOkhotsk (MO) belt developed in the Middle to Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous (Xu et al, 1997;Zorin, 1999;Wang et al, 2004;Liu et al, 2005). This still poorly studied orogenic belt was constructed as a result of the collision of the Siberian continent with the composite North Chinese-Mongolian continent (Sino-Korean craton).…”

“…The geological and tectonic history of this area, however, remains poorly constrained (Graham et al, 2001). Convergence and eventual collision of the Siberian and North Chinese (Sino-Korean)/Mongolian continents resulted in the development of the MO orogenic belt in the Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous (Xu et al, 1997;Zorin, 1999;Wang et al, 2004;Liu et al, 2005). The collision zone ran from the current Okhotsk Sea, through Mongolia, to its western extension, southwest of the Baikal rift zone.…”