Precambrian tectonic evolution of the Tarim Block, NW China: New geochronological insights from the Quruqtagh domain

Detrital zircons from Neoproterozoic sedimentary rocks in the Yili Block: Constraints on the affinity of microcontinents in the southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt

“…The Tarim Craton as a block rifted from Gondwana was thus widely considered to the origin of some microcontinents within the CAOB. Levashova et al, 2009;Lei et al, 2011;Levashova et al, 2011;Rojas-Agramonte et al, 2011;Shu et al, 2011;Ma et al, 2012a,b;Lei et al, 2013;Ma et al, 2013;Metcalfe, 2013;Liu et al, 2014;Rojas-Agramonte et al, 2014;Zhao et al, 2014;Wang et al, 2014c).…”

“…In contrast, models that favor the origin of the Siberian Craton have been proposed recently (Berzin and Dobretsov, 1994;Sengör and Natal'in, 1996;Kuzmichev et al, 2001;Turkina et al, 2007;Zhou et al, 2009Zhou et al, , 2010aZhou et al, ,b,c, 2011. More recently, the Tarim Craton was also considered to be a possible origin for these microcontinents (Levashova et al, 2009;Lei et al, 2011;Levashova et al, 2011;Rojas-Agramonte et al, 2011;Shu et al, 2011;Ma et al, 2012a,b;Lei et al, 2013;Ma et al, 2013;Liu et al, 2014;Wang et al, 2014c). These controversies largely result from the Phanerozoic reworking of polyphase orogenesis and magmatism which overprinted and obscured much of the Precambrian geological records.…”

“…1) (Gao et al, 1998;Shu et al, 2004;Gao et al, 2009;Xiao et al, 2010;Shu et al, 2011). It is located within the Chinese E-W-trending Tianshan orogenic belt surrounding by the Kazakhstan-Kyrgyzstan Tianshan, the Junggar Basin and the Tarim Craton (Fig.…”

Geological characteristics and age of the Dahongliutan Fe-ore deposit in the Western Kunlun orogenic belt, Xinjiang, northwestern China

“…The 0.9-1.0 Ga metamorphic event have been widely recognized in the North Kunlun terrane (Zhang et al, 2003a(Zhang et al, , 2007. Magmatic events with ages ranging from 1000 to 890 Ma in the Tarim Block have also been reported (Zhang et al, 2009;Shu et al, 2011;Ma et al, 2012a,b). Therefore, we conclude that the Northern Kunlun terrane, and probably also the Tarim Block, may have been the sources for the ca.…”

Petrology and zircon U-Pb dating combined with Hf isotope study of granitic rocks from the Kuluketage Block (Tarim Craton, NW China)

“…However, most of the previous studies have mainly focused on Neoproterozoic magmatism and tectonic evolution related to the break-up of Rodinia (Xu et al 2005;Luo et al 2007;Sun and Huang 2007;Zhu et al 2008;Zhang et al 2009;Shu et al 2010;Cao et al 2011), e.g., c. 800-820 Ma Qiganbulake mafic-ultramafic-carbonatite complex, 820 ± 10 Ma Xingdi granodiorite, 795 ± 10 Ma Taiyangdao granite (Zhang et al 2007a), c. 755 Ma bimodal volcanic rocks in the Xinger area (Xu et al 2005) and 630-650 Ma mafic dykes in Korla .…”