Paleozoic and Mesozoic Tectonic Evolution of Central Asia PDF Download

Author: Marc S. Hendrix
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Category : Geology, Stratigraphic
Languages : en
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Author: Gregory Arlen Davis
Publisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 9780813711942
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 612

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Hendrix (geology, U. of Montana) and Davis (earth sciences, U. of Southern California) present 19 articles detailing ground-based work on the history of assembly and intracontinental deformation of central and eastern Asia. Chapters look at the structural, thermochronologic, and sedimentary records of the history of Paleozoic assembly in Mongolia and central and western China. Further information is presented on Mesozoic deformation in orogenic belts of central and eastern Asia. Asia's sedimentary basins are examined and the intracontinental deformation they record is documented. Many of these contributions, particularly the papers examining Mongolian geology, are the first ground-based articles written in English. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Author: An Yin
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ISBN: 9780521480499
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 666

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The evolution of Asia has largely occurred over the last 400 million years, and continues today. Seeing a continent in the act of assembly provides a rare opportunity to study the processes by which continents are constructed and internally modified. This book is a collection of twenty-one contributions on the tectonic evolution of Asia. The book is divided into five parts: geodynamic models of the Cenozoic deformation in Asia, seismotectonics, geological evolution of the Himalaya–Karakoram Ranges, tectonics of the Cenozoic Indo–Asia collision, and Mesozoic–Paleozoic assembly of Asia. Several important problems are addressed in detail, including the origin of the Tibetan Plateau, the nature of ultra-high pressure metamorphism in east-central Asia, the accretion of microcontinents to Asia, and the accommodation mechanisms of the Indo-Asian collision. The Tectonic Evolution of Asia provides an authoritative description of our current understanding of Asian tectonics and continental growth for graduate students and researchers.

Author: Oleg V. Petrov
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030620018
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265

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The book provides the results of tectonic, geological and geophysical studies of Northern, Central and Eastern Asia obtained over the last 20 years, and a Tectonic map for this area overview as well as essays on its geodynamic evolution. These new results were obtained by an international team of specialists within the project “Atlas of geological maps of Central Asia and adjacent areas,” scale 1: 2,500,000, initiated in 2003 by geological surveys of Russia, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan and South Korea under the auspices of the CGMW. The most of the book contains the descriptions of the tectonic structure of major geological regions of Asia, such as the Ural, Sayan-Baikal and Tien Shan orogenic systems. The tectonic structure of the Pamirs, Turan Plate, Mongolia, Southern China, Korea and other regions is also discussed. The book contains maps of gravity and magnetic anomalies, sketch maps of deep structures of the area, and the geotransect crossing the most important geological structures of Asia. The final chapter of the book describes the tectonic evolution of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt from the Neoproterozoic to the Mesozoic.

Author: Alexandra Käßner
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Languages : en
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Author: Marie-Franc̦oise Brunet
Publisher: Geological Society of London
ISBN: 1862397384
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 605

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The geological evolution of Central Asia commenced with the formation of a complex Precambrian–Palaeozoic orogen. Cimmerian blocks were then accreted to the southern margin in the Mesozoic, leading to tectonic reactivation of older structures and discrete episodes of basin formation. The Indian and Arabian blocks collided with Asia in the Cenozoic, leading to renewed structural reactivation, intracontinental deformation and basin development. This complex evolution resulted in the present-day setting of an elongated Tien Shan range flanked by large Mesozoic–Cenozoic sedimentary basins with smaller intramontane basins distributed within the range. This volume presents multidisciplinary results and reviews from research groups in Europe and Central Asia that focus on the western part of the Tien Shan and some of the adjacent large sedimentary basins. These works elucidate the Late Palaeozoic–Cenozoic tectono-sedimentary evolution of the area. Emphasis is given to the collision of terranes and continents and the ensuing fault reactivations. The impact of climatic changes on sedimentation is also examined.

Author: Marc S
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ISBN: 9780813711942
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 464

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Hendrix (geology, U. of Montana) and Davis (earth sciences, U. of Southern California) present 19 articles detailing ground-based work on the history of assembly and intracontinental deformation of central and eastern Asia. Chapters look at the structural, thermochronologic, and sedimentary records of the history of Paleozoic assembly in Mongolia and central and western China. Further information is presented on Mesozoic deformation in orogenic belts of central and eastern Asia. Asia's sedimentary basins are examined and the intracontinental deformation they record is documented. Many of these contributions, particularly the papers examining Mongolian geology, are the first ground-based articles written in English. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Author: Wenzhu Hou
Publisher: Open Dissertation Press
ISBN: 9781361036372
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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This dissertation, "Ages, Geochemistry and Tectonic Settings of the Paleozoic-Mesozoic Rocks Along the Hegenshan-Heihe Suture Zone in the Eastern Segment of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt" by Wenzhu, Hou, 侯文竹, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: The Hegenshan-Heihe belt (HHB) represents a suture zone resulting from the collision of the Xing'an and Songliao blocks located in the eastern segment of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB). The formation of the HHB marks the destruction of the oceanic lithosphere and the closure of the Paleo-Asian Ocean (PAO). It has been a long-time debate regarding the tectonic evolution of the Xing'an and Songliao blocks and the intervening ocean during Paleozoic time, particularly the final closure timing of the PAO along the HHB. This project is aimed to address these issues by integrating the geochronology and geochemistry of the Paleozoic volcanic rocks and their tectonic setting with the detrital zircon data. The geochronological and geochemical data for two suites of the Paleozoic volcanic and sedimentary rocks suggest two long-lived island-arc systems along the southern margin of the Xing'an block and the northern margin of the Songliao Block. LA-ICP-MS zircon U-Pb dating results indicate that the Ordovician volcanic rocks developing at the southern margin of the Xing'an block erupted at ca. 447Ma and geochemically resemble the arc-related volcanism with strongly enriched LREE and LILE. The zircon ages also revealed the basement information of the Xing'an block by yielding age populations similar to 2.5, 1.8, 1.2, and 0.8 Ga from the inherited zircons, most likely shed from the deep continental crust during the magma migration and contamination. Similar features were also discovered in the locally deposited Silurian-Devonian sedimentary strata. This study suggests an Andean-type continental margin developing at the southern margin of the Xing'an block, associated with the northward subduction of the PAO from Ordovician to Devonian (ca.465-392Ma). The Carboniferous volcanic rocks developed at the northern margin of the Songliao block, associated with the coevally deposited sedimentary strata, showing a close affinity with oceanic island-arc, and the sedimentary strata formed in a back-arc/forearc basin. This study also suggests a Western Pacific-type subduction and arc-basin system developing at the northern margin of the Songliao block during Ordovician to Carboniferous time (ca. 452-315 Ma). The detrital zircon analysis suggests that a provenance transfer for the sedimentary strata developing in the HHB took place between the Late Carboniferous and Permian, with the Carboniferous strata sourcing Paleozoic detritus from the isolated island-arcs and the Permian strata sourcing Precambrian detritus from the approximate continent. Integrated with the previously reported data, this study suggests that the final closure of the PAO along the HHB occurred at some time between 303-312 Ma. This study also reports a suite of Mesozoic bimodal volcanic rocks in Zhalantun area, which was previously thought to be Permian in age, namely the Dashizhai formation. This suite of volcanic rocks formed in a regional extensional environment, which was mostly likely induced by the post-collisional extension of the eastern CAOB. On the basis of new data presented in this thesis combined with previous studies, I present a new tectonic model for the Paleozoic subduction and collision followed by a Mesozoic extension for the Hegenshan-Heihe suture zone. Subjects: Suture zones (Structural geology)

Author: Alfred Kröner
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ISBN: 9783443110338
Category : Geology, Structural
Languages : en
Pages : 313

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This volume provides a state-of-the-art account of the geology of part of Central Asia named The Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB). This Belt formed by accretion of island arcs, ophiolites, oceanic islands, seamounts, accretionary wedges, oceanic plateaux and microcontinents (c. 1000-250 Ma ago) by similar processes to those in the circum- Pacific Mesozoic-Cenozoic accretionary orogens. Also known as Altaids, this region is one of the largest orogenic belts on Earth, extending from the Ural Mountains in the West to far eastern Siberia. It is the product of a complex evolution lasting for more than 800 million years from the latest Mesoproterozoic to the end of the Palaeozoic. The CAOB consists of numerous accreted terranes, made up of island arcs, oceanic plateaux and islands, Precambrian microcontinents and remnants of oceanic crust that are preserved as fragmented ophiolites. Although the broad history if this huge territory is now reasonably well understood there are still major unanswered questions such as the rate and volume of crustal growth, the origin of continental fragments, the detailed mechanism of accretion and collision, the role of terrane rotations during the orogeny, and the age and composition of the lower crust in Central Asia. Large parts of Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Siberia and parts of Mongolia) treated in this volume have only been poorly covered in scholarly western publications. Most contributions of this book are by Russian scientists actively involved in field and laboratory research of the CAOB and therefore have an intimate knowledge of the terranes which they describe and analyze. In view of the increasing significance of Central Asia because of its wealth of mineral resources this volume is of interest to readers from all fields of the geosciences and from academics to industry.