“…Field-based structural, petrological, sedimentological, and geochemical evidence is consistent with modern style tectonics operating since the Eoarchaean (Harrison, 2009;Polat, 2012;Kusky et al, 2018;Windley et al, 2021) or Mesoarchaean (Cawood et al, 2018), but some have argued that the metamorphic record is not consistent with modern style tectonics, because of the absence of paired metamorphism (low dT/dP with high dT/dP) and orogenic ultrahigh pressure (UHP) minerals in Archean orogenic belts (c.f. Stern, 2008;Brown and Johnson, 2019;Zheng and Zhao, 2020;Kusky, 2020). Recent studies have shown that the Central (Taihang) Orogenic Belt (COB) of the North China Craton (NCC) contains geological records of a late Archean arc/continental collision, that includes hallmark features of Phanerozoic collisional orogens including accretionary wedges with accreted ocean plate stratigraphy, ophiolitic mélanges, fore-arc ophiolites, supra-subuduction zone magmatic systems, sea-floor hydrothermal systems, zones of Alpine-style nappes, a hinterland of high-grade metamorphic and magmatic rocks, and foreland basins filled contemporaneously with late stages of collision (Kusky et al, 2016(Kusky et al, , 2020Deng et al, 2018;Wang et al, 2019;Huang et al, 2019;Peng et al, 2020;Ning et al, 2020;Jiang et al, 2020).…”