What is it about?
This paper is about the basic architecture of the Central Asia that is characterized by amalgamation of three major Permo-Triassic orogenic collage systems.
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Why is it important?
The basic architecture of the Central Asia was previously interpreted as a general accretion migrating from the N to the S in the Paleozoic. However, this paper provides an unique scenario in which multiple subduction and accretionary events might have occurred during the Permian and orogeny in some parts even lasted to the Mid-Triassic, leaving spaces afterward for the tectonic evolution of the Mongol-Okhotsk ocean to the north and of the Tethyan oceans to the south.
Perspectives
Anatomy of orogenic collage systems always first considers paleogeographic and paleomagnetic aspects, followed by detailed investigations of composition, kinematics, and geochronology.
Professor Wenjiao Xiao
Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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This page is a summary of: A Tale of Amalgamation of Three Permo-Triassic Collage Systems in Central Asia: Oroclines, Sutures, and Terminal Accretion, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, May 2015, Annual Reviews,
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-earth-060614-105254.
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