HP–UHP Metamorphic Belt in the East Kunlun Orogen: Final Closure of the Proto-Tethys Ocean and Formation of the Pan-North-China Continent

Song, Shuguang; Bi, Hengzhe; Qi, Shengsheng; Yang, Liming; B. Allen, Mark; Niu, Yaoling; Su, Li; Li, Wufu

doi:10.1093/petrology/egy089

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HP–UHP Metamorphic Belt in the East Kunlun Orogen: Final Closure of the Proto-Tethys Ocean and Formation of the Pan-North-China Continent

Published in Journal of Petrology • Sep 13, 2018

Authors:

Shuguang Song

Hengzhe Bi

Shengsheng Qi

Abstract

The East Kunlun Orogen, the northwestern part of the Central China Orogenic Belt, is a long-lived accretionary orogenic belt that records the evolution and eventual destruction of branches of the Tethys Ocean, from the Cambrian to the Triassic. Here we report an Early Paleozoic eclogite belt that ex...

Subject

Geology

Eclogite

Metamorphic rock

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