The Paleozoic northern margin of the Tarim Craton: Passive or active?

Zircon U–Pb ages and Hf–O isotopic signatures of the Wajilitag and Puchang Fe–Ti oxide–bearing intrusive complexes: Constraints on their source characteristics and temporal–spatial evolution of the Tarim large igneous province

“…Silurian to Devonian gabbroids and granitoids (ca. 444-360 Ma) also sporadically distributed around the northern margin of the craton are believed to have been correlated to the subduction of the southern Tianshan oceanic lithosphere plate beneath the craton (Ge et al, 2012(Ge et al, , 2014Huang et al, 2013;Zhao et al, 2015).…”

Origin of two types of rhyolites in the Tarim Large Igneous Province: Consequences of incubation and melting of a mantle plume

“…Less is known about Mesoproterozoic-Neoproterozoic history of the Tarim craton. However, recently discovered Proterozoic-age zircon grains both in metasedimentary and igneous rocks may indicate the existence of extensive Mesoproterozoic-Neoproterozoic basement in the Tarim craton (Cao et al, 2011;Ge et al, 2012;Long et al, 2011;Ma et al, 2012;Wang et al, 2009;Wu et al, 2009;Zhang et al, 2007a).…”

Geochronology and geochemistry of Late Ordovician–Early Devonian gneissic granites in the Kumishi area, northern margin of the South Tianshan Belt: Constraints on subduction process of the South Tianshan Ocean

“…Granitic plutons are predominantly composed of syenites, nepheline syenites, aegirine syenites, twomica peraluminous leucogranites and A-tpe rapakivi granites, which have zircon U-Pb ages between 304 Ma and 273 Ma (Liu et al, 2004;Konopelko et al, 2007;Solomovich, 2007;Zhu et al, 2008;Long et al, 2008;Seltmann et al, 2011;Huang et al, 2012). Several Early Paleozoic granitic intrusions (490-387 Ma) were exposed in the eastern segment of the STB (Hopson et al, 1989;Han et al, 2004;Xu et al, 2006;Zhu et al, 2008;Wang et al, 2009b;Ge et al, 2012;Guo et al, 2013;Jia et al, 2013).…”

“…According to structural researches, however, a southward subduction model was recently proposed Lin et al, 2009Lin et al, , 2013Wang et al, 2010Wang et al, , 2011Ma et al, 2014). This model predicts that the northern Tarim Craton was an active margin in late Early Paleozoic (Wang et al, , 2009aLin et al, 2009;Ge et al, 2012Ge et al, , 2014. Although a few early Paleozoic and late Paleozoic arc-related magmatic rocks were recently discovered in the both sides of the South Tianshan Belt (e.g.…”