Tectonic Evolution and Mineralization of the Dabie Orogen

Dear Colleagues,

The Dabie Orogen in East China was created by the Triassic northwards subduction of the South China Block beneath the North China Block, and it exposes the largest area of UHP metamorphic rocks in the world, with the Sulu Orogen in the northeast.

Although studies on the Dabie Orogen have been in operation for more than 40 years, there are still many unresolved problems. For example, as one of the largest ultra-high-pressure terranes in the world, what is its exhumation process and mechanism? The Dabie Orogen underwent intense extension during the post-collisional stage, resulting in extensive magmatism and mineralization, but the mechanism of this post-collisional extension is still controversial. The post-collisional extension process resulted in large volumes of orogenic materials being eroded and transported to the surrounding basins, which causes a lack of partial evolution formations of the orogenic belt. Moreover, the Dabie Orogen is located within both the Tethys tectonic domain and the Paleo-Pacific tectonic domain. Therefore, research on this orogenic belt can not only provide information for the evolution process of each of the two tectonic domains but also provide evidence for their interaction.

In order to discover the tectonic evolution process of the Dabie Orogen, a large number of works have been continuously carried out in recent years, including petrology, stratigraphy, structural geology, geochemistry and geochronology, geophysics, etc. These works have elucidated new understanding of and made progress in the tectonic evolution and mineralization of the Dabie Orogen. This Special Issue is a platform for showing these new achievements.

Prof. Dr. Yongsheng Wang
Prof. Dr. Yonghong Shi
Dr. Ruxin Ding
Guest Editors

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• subduction and exhumation process and mechanism
• coupling evolution of orogenic belt and basins
• post-collisional magmatism and mineralization
• low-temperature thermochronology
• deep structure of orogenic belt