TY - JOUR
AU - Qin, Tang Yao
AB - The structure and history of the Qinling range, which separates the North and South China cratons, are a key to the tectonic evolution of eastern Asia. The mountain range is composed of a northern Palaeozoic belt and a southern Mesozoic belt. The Palaeozoic orogeny probably involved the closure of an oceanic basin along a north-dipping subduction zone, followed by south-vergent obduction of ophiolites and intracontinental thrusting during the Devonian. The Mesozoic belt appears to be the product of purely intracontinental, shallow crustal deformation over a large decollement with at least 100 km of horizontal transport. Since the Devonian, both belts have been sliced by huge east–west sinistral strike-slip faults.
TI - Tectonics of the Qinling Belt: build-up and evolution of eastern Asia
JF - Nature
DO - 10.1038/317496a0
DA - 1985-10-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/tectonics-of-the-qinling-belt-build-up-and-evolution-of-eastern-asia-GyLDKv0561
SP - 496
EP - 500
VL - 317
IS - 6037
DP - DeepDyve
ER -