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Tianshan orogenic belt, Chinai
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Tianshan orogenic beltFold Belt
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420908
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0


The South Tianshan, a continuous tectonic belt marking the southwestern margin of the Altaids, stretches about 2500 km from western China to Central Asia. The belt is separated from the Paleozoic Yili-Central Tianshan arc by the Atbashi-Inylchek-South Nalati Fault to the north and from the Tarim Craton by the North Tarim Fault to the south. Tectonically, the South Tianshan is a fossil accretionary complex formed by the northward subduction of the Paleo-South Tianshan Ocean. It records the final suturing process between the Yili-Central Tianshan arc and the northern Tarim Craton, which is thought to have taken place in the late Paleozoic, or alternatively in the early Mesozoic.

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References

Xia, L., Xu, X., Li, X., Ma, Z., & Xia, Z. (2012). Reassessment of petrogenesis of Carboniferous–Early Permian rift-related volcanic rocks in the Chinese Tianshan and its neighboring areas. Geoscience Frontiers, 3(4), 445-471.
[1]Abuduxun, Nijiati; Xiao, Wenjiao; Zhang, Wanghu; Yang, He; Alimujiang, Abidan; Huang, Peng; Gan, Jingmin (2025) Late Carboniferous Slab Rollback in the Southern Altaids: Evidence from a Slab-Derived Adakitic Granodiorite in the South Tianshan. Minerals, 15 (7). doi:10.3390/min15070674
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