Corresponding main metallogenic
epochs to key geological events in the North China Craton: an example for
secular changes in the evolving Earth.- Archean continental crust in the
southern North China Craton.- Structural architecture and
spatial-temporal distribution of the Archean domains in the Eastern North China
craton.- Formation ages and environments
of Early Precambrian banded iron formation in the North China Craton.- Neoarchean banded
iron formations in the North China Craton: geology, geochemistry and its
implications.- Archean continental crustal
accretion and banded iron formations, Southeastern North China Craton.- Paleoproterozoic gneissic
granites in the Liaoji mobile belt, North China Craton: implications for
tectonic setting.- Genetic mechanism and metamorphic
evolution of Khondalite series within the Paleoproterozoic mobile belts, North
China Craton.- Paleoproterozoic
copper system in the Zhongtiaoshan region, southern margin of the North
China Craton: ore geology, fluid inclusion, and isotopic investigation.- The Paleoproterozoic continental
evolution in the southern North China Craton: Constrains from magmatism and
sedimentation.- The Great Oxidation Event and
its records in North China Craton.- Early Paleoproterozoic
metallogenic explosion in North China Craton.- A genetic link between
Paleoproterozoic Yuanjiacun BIF and the Great Oxidation Event in North China
Craton.-
Magmatic records of the late
Paleoproterozoic to Neoproterozoic extensional and rifting events in the North
China Craton: a preliminary review.- Meso-Neoproterozoic
stratigraphic and tectonic framework of the North China Craton.- Petrogenesis and
tectonic significance of
the late Paleoproterozoic to early Mesoproterozoic (~1.80-1.53 Ga) A-type
granites in the southern margin of the North China Craton.- Insights into the ore genesis of
the giant Bayan Obo REE-Nb-Fe deposit and the Mesoproterozoic rifting events in
the northern North China Craton.- Paleozoic to early Mesozoic
tectonics of North China Craton.- Two-stage
extensional pattern in the North China-Mongolian tract during late Mesozoic:
insights from the spatial and temporal distribution of magmatic domes and
metamorphic core complexes.- Mesozoic Mo deposits in northern
North China Craton.-
Late Mesozoic gold mineralization in the
North China Craton.- Lower crustal accretion and
reworking beneath the North China Craton: Evidences from granulite xenoliths.
Mingguo Zhai is a Research Professor at the Institute of
Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences; a Professor at Northwest
University (China); a Guest Professor at the University of Chinese Academy of
Sciences and Jilin University, and a Visiting chair professor at Sun Yat-Sen
University. He received his B.Sc. (1976) from Northwest
University (China),
and his M.Sc. (1982) and Ph.D. (1989) from the Chinese Academy
of Sciences. He was elected member of the Chinese Academy
of Sciences (Academician) in 2009. His professional fields cover Precambrian
geology, metamorphic geology and petrology. His research focus is on early
crustal evolution, continental geodynamics and metallogeny.
Yue Zhao is a Research Professor and Vice-Director of the Institute
of Geomechanics, Chinese
Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing. He earned a
bachelor's degree in geology from Changchun College of Geology in 1982 and a MS
degree in structural geology and tectonics from the Chinese Academy
of Geological Sciences in 1986. His research interests include structural and
tectonic evolution of East Asian and the East Antractica.
He firstly propopsed that the Jurassic deformations in northern North China
Craton is related to geotectonics transition from Paleoasian system and
Paleotethyan system to Paleopacific active continental margin of eastern Asia. He is also the first one explained the meaning of
the Pan-African events in Prydz Bay, East Antarctica and its inference on East
Gondwana tectonics.
Taiping Zhao is a Research Professor at the Guangzhou
Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research
interests include magmatism and related ore-forming processes. He has been
focused on the study of the igneous rocks and related ore deposits in North
China Craton and East Qinling-Dabie orogenic belt in the last two decades. His
current researches mainly consist of two aspects, major Precambrian geological
events and related ore-forming processes on the southern margin of the North China craton, and the petrogenesis
and tectonic settings of the Mesozoic granitoids and metallogeny of the
associated Mo-Au-Ag-Pb-Zn ore-deposits on the southern margin of the North
China Craton.
This book focuses on the metallogeny and main tectonic
events of the North China Craton from early Precambrian to Phanerozoic. It
covers the Archean crustal growth, Paleoproterozoic
rifting-subduction-collision processes, Great Oxidation Event,
Meso-Neoproterozoic multiple rifting, Phanerozoic reworking of the North China
Craton, as well as metallogeny related to above different processes. The North
China Craton is one of the oldest cratons in the world. It has experienced a
complex geological evolution since the early Precambrian, and carries important
records of secular changes in tectonics and metallogeny. It provides a
systematic review and new results on the growth and evolution of the North
China Craton and metallogeny. It will be of broad interest to the earth
scientists working in the fields of
economic geology, geochemistry, and tectonics of the North China Craton and
eastern Asian.