{"title":"The continental tectonics of China","authors":"Ren Jishun","doi":"10.1016/0743-9547(96)00026-8","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The Chinese continent is a composite continent made up of many blocks of various sizes. It features soft-collision and polycyclic suturing between the blocks and the resulting composite orogeny. The continent has distinctive polycyclic evolution by stages and multilevel mosaic and flyover-type structures. Since the Paleozoic, the tectonic development of China has been controlled by the three global dynamic systems: The Paleo-Asian, Tethyan and Pacific systems. The geodynamic processes were marked by Gondwana dispersion, blocks drifting northward, fold belts migrating southward and Asian accretion.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":85022,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Southeast Asian earth sciences","volume":"13 3","pages":"Pages 197-204"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1996-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0743-9547(96)00026-8","citationCount":"59","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Southeast Asian earth sciences","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0743954796000268","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The Chinese continent is a composite continent made up of many blocks of various sizes. It features soft-collision and polycyclic suturing between the blocks and the resulting composite orogeny. The continent has distinctive polycyclic evolution by stages and multilevel mosaic and flyover-type structures. Since the Paleozoic, the tectonic development of China has been controlled by the three global dynamic systems: The Paleo-Asian, Tethyan and Pacific systems. The geodynamic processes were marked by Gondwana dispersion, blocks drifting northward, fold belts migrating southward and Asian accretion.