The enigmatic Yinshan fold-and-thrust belt of northern China: New views on its intraplate contractional styles

Research Article| January 01, 1998 The enigmatic Yinshan fold-and-thrust belt of northern China: New views on its intraplate contractional styles Gregory A. Davis; Gregory A. Davis 1Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089 Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Wang Cong; Wang Cong 1Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089 Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Zheng Yadong; Zheng Yadong 2Department of Geology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Zhang Jinjiang; Zhang Jinjiang 2Department of Geology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Zhang Changhou; Zhang Changhou 3China University of Geoscience, Beijing 100083, China Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar George E. Gehrels George E. Gehrels 4Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721 Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Author and Article Information Gregory A. Davis 1Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089 Wang Cong 1Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089 Zheng Yadong 2Department of Geology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China Zhang Jinjiang 2Department of Geology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China Zhang Changhou 3China University of Geoscience, Beijing 100083, China George E. Gehrels 4Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721 Publisher: Geological Society of America First Online: 02 Jun 2017 Online ISSN: 1943-2682 Print ISSN: 0091-7613 Geological Society of America Geology (1998) 26 (1): 43–46. https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(1998)026<0043:TEYFAT>2.3.CO;2 Article history First Online: 02 Jun 2017 Cite View This Citation Add to Citation Manager Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Search Site Citation Gregory A. Davis, Wang Cong, Zheng Yadong, Zhang Jinjiang, Zhang Changhou, George E. Gehrels; The enigmatic Yinshan fold-and-thrust belt of northern China: New views on its intraplate contractional styles. Geology 1998;; 26 (1): 43–46. doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(1998)026<0043:TEYFAT>2.3.CO;2 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Refmanager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentBy SocietyGeology Search Advanced Search Abstract The east- to east-northeast–trending Yinshan belt lies within North China, extending westward at least 1100 km from China's eastern coast to Inner Mongolia. This intraplate Jurassic-Cretaceous belt underwent contractional and normal faulting, folding, and contemporaneous terrestrial sedimentation and magmatism. Current views on its contractional deformational style favor relatively limited "thick-skinned" faulting of Archean basement and cover units. These views are challenged, however, by recent discoveries in the eastern part of the belt of south-directed ductile nappe formation and large-displacement (>40–45 km) "thin-skinned" northward thrust faulting, both involving Archean and younger rock units.Collision of the Siberian and North China plates upon closure of a Jurassic and Early Cretaceous Mongolo-Okhotsk ocean more than 800–1100 km to the north may have been responsible for Yinshan north-south contraction. Some patterns of contraction, e.g., Jurassic-Cretaceous ductile nappe formation, appear to have been influenced by a superposed magmatic regime related to westward subduction of a Pacific basin plate beneath the North China plate. This content is PDF only. Please click on the PDF icon to access. First Page Preview Close Modal You do not have access to this content, please speak to your institutional administrator if you feel you should have access.