“…All the rocks from the SMACM and BAAC have clearly positive ε Hf (t) and ε Nd (t) values, indicating their magma source was contributed to by the mantle and/or juvenile continental materials. Combining pre-existing data from the literature about late Paleozoic sandstones and the Carboniferous−Permian magmatism from the SMACM and BAAC (Lu et al, 2019(Lu et al, , 2020 and that about the Daqingpasture−Diyanmiao ophiolite mélange on the southern margin of the BAAC (Liu et al, 2013;Wang et al, 2017Wang et al, , 2018aWang et al, ,b, 2019, a Carboniferous palaeostructural framework of continental arc (the SMACM)−back-arc basin (the HBAB)−arc margin (the BAAC) was proposed at the southern margin of the South Mongolian Microcontinent. After collision between the SMACM and BAAC at the end Carboniferous (Lu et al, 2019(Lu et al, , 2020, controlled by northward subduction of the Paleo-Asian Ocean, syn-to post-collisional magmatism occurred on the SMACM, while continental arc magmatism occurred on the BAAC.…”