Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous continental convergence and intracontinental orogenesis in East Asia: A synthesis of the Yanshan Revolution

• Published in: Journal of Asian earth sciences Vol. 114; pp. 750 - 770
• Main Authors: Dong, Shuwen, Zhang, Yueqiao, Zhang, Fuqin, Cui, Jianjun, Chen, Xuanhua, Zhang, Shuanhong, Miao, Laicheng, Li, Jianhua, Shi, Wei, Li, Zhenhong, Huang, Shiqi, Li, Hailong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 15.12.2015
• Subjects: Dynamic mechanism; East Asian continent; Intracontinental orogeny; Middle Jurassic and Early Cretaceous; Post-orogenic extension; Middle Jurassic and Early Cretaceous; East Asian continent; Dynamic mechanism; Intracontinental orogeny; Post-orogenic extension

The basic tectonic framework of continental East Asia was produced by a series of nearly contemporaneous orogenic events in the late Middle Jurassic to Early Cretaceous. Commonly, the Late Mesozoic orogenic processes were characterized by continent–continent collision, large-scale thrusting, strike-...