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Ji-shun Ren, Jian-hui Liu, Jun-bin Zhu, 2025. Mesozoic superposed orogenic systems in eastern China, China Geology, 8, 241-252. doi: 10.31035/cg20250015
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Mesozoic superposed orogenic systems in eastern China
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Abstract
The Indosinian and Yanshanian orogenic movements are both important Mesozoic orogenies in eastern China. The resulted tectonic belts are neither products of the third stage of crustal evolution, as proposed by Chen Guoda, nor intra-continental (or intraplate) orogenic belts generated by intraplate dynamics, as argued by some scholars—rather, they are superposed orogenic belts formed on the pre-existing continental crust in eastern China due to Mesozoic Paleo-Pacific dynamic system. In the past, these orogenic belts were called the marginal Pacific epicontinental activation belts of eastern China. In the Mesozoic, under the effect of Paleo-Pacific dynamic system, the East Asia margin orogenic system formed along Northeast Russia-Sikhote Alin (Russia)–Japan-Ryukyu-Taiwan (China)-Palawan (Philippines) regions, while simultaneously the Mesozoic superposed orogenic system formed in the pre-existing continental crust in eastern China adjacent to the East Asia continental margin. The two orogenic systems, both driven by Mesozoic Paleo-Pacific dynamic system, developed synchronously to form the giant Mesozoic orogenic system in the Pacific tectonic domain in eastern Asia, radically changing the pre-Indosian tectonic framework of the area.
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Figure 1.
Simplified tectonic map of China and adjacent regions during the period before the Indosinian Orogeny.
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Figure 2.
Structural section of the Beipiao area (modified from Wong WH, 1927).
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Figure 3.
Geological map of East China and adjacent regions. Modified from the 1∶5000000 International Geological Map of Asia (after Ren JS et al., 2013a, b)
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Figure 4.
Simplified tectonic map of China and adjacent regions for the period after the Yanshanian orogeny.
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Overpass-like crust–upper mantle architecture of East China and adjacent areas (after Ren JS et al., 1990, 1999a; Ren JS, 1996).
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Morphostructural map of China and adjacent regions for the period after the Himalayan orogeny.