Metamorphic petrology and geology in China: A review

Yuan-sheng Geng; Qi-han Shen; Hui-xia Song

doi:10.31035/cg2018012

2018 Vol. 1, No. 1

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Yuan-sheng Geng, Qi-han Shen, Hui-xia Song, 2018. Metamorphic petrology and geology in China: A review, China Geology, 1, 137-157. doi: 10.31035/cg2018012

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Yuan-sheng Geng, Qi-han Shen, Hui-xia Song, 2018. Metamorphic petrology and geology in China: A review, China Geology, 1, 137-157. doi: 10.31035/cg2018012

Metamorphic petrology and geology in China: A review

Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing 100037, China

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Corresponding author: Email address: ys-geng@cags.ac.cn (Geng yuansheng)

Received Date: 08 December 2017

Revised Date: 30 January 2018

Accepted Date: 04 February 2018

Available Online: 10 March 2018

Publish Date: 25 March 2018

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Abstract

The development of metamorphic petrology to metamorphic geology in China has a long history. Ancient basement metamorphic rocks are distributed primarily in the North China Craton, the Yangtze Block and Tarim Craton. They are mainly made up of plutonic gneiss and metamorphosed supercrust rock, transformed to granulite facies through Archean Paleoproterozoic. Many of the Paleoproterozoic metamorphic rocks have undergone high-pressure granulite facies metamorphism with a clockwise metamorphic evolution path. The ultrahigh temperature (UHT) granulites from the Late Paleoproterozoic are found in North China Craton. Many high-precision chronological data have allowed preliminary construction of the formation and evolutionary framework of different metamorphic basements. Primarily there are low-temperature and high-pressure blue schist, high-temperature and high-pressure granulite and ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) eclogite facies metamorphic rocks in the Phanerozoic orogenic belt. The discovery of eclogite in the Sulu orogen and a large quantity of coesite in its country rocks show that there was a deep subduction of voluminous continental materials during the collision process between the Yangtze block and the North China Craton in the Early Mesozoic phase. From the studies of, for instance, organic matter vitrinite reflectance, illite crystallinity, illite (muscovite) polytype and illite (muscovite) b dimension, the Late Paleozoic strata in the eastern region of Inner Mongolia and the north-central region of NE China have only experienced diagenesis to an extremely low-grade metamorphism. The discovery of impact-metamorphosed rocks in Xiuyan area of Liaoning province has enriched the type and category of metamorphic rocks in China. The phase equilibrium method has been widely used in the study of metamorphism of middle and high-grade metamorphic rocks. On the basis of existing geologic surveys and monographic study results, different scholars have respectively compiled 1:1500000 Metamorphic Geological Map and Specifications of Qinghai Tibet Plateau and its Adjacent Areas, 1:2500000 Metamorphic Tectonic Map of China, and the 1:5000000 Metamorphic Geological Map and Specifications of China, among others repectively, which have systematically summarized the research results of metamorphic petrology and metamorphic geology in China.
- Metamorphic petrology /
- Metamorphic geology /
- Metamorphic P-T-t path /
- Ultrahigh pressure /
- Metamorphic pock /
- Granulite

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