Wenjiao Xiao - Publications#

[* corresponding/joint corresponding author]

[1] Li, W., Chen, Y.*, Yuan, X., Xiao, W.*, Windley, B., 2022. Intracontinental deformation of the Tianshan Orogen in response to India-Asia collision. Nature Communications, 13, 3738, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30795-6.

[2] Nie, J.*, Wang, W., Heermance, R., Gao, P., Xing, P., Zhang, X*., Zhang, R.*, Garzione, C., Xiao, W.*, 2022. Late Miocene Tarim desert wetting linked with eccentricity minimum and East Asian monsoon weakening. Nature Communications, 13, 3977, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31577-w.

[3] Wan, B.*, Windley, B.F., Xiao, W.J., Feng, J.Y., Zhang, J.E., 2015. Paleoproterozoic high-pressure metamorphism in the northern North China Craton and implications for the Nuna supercontinent. Nature Communications, 6, 8344, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9344.

[4] Qiu, Z.*, Zou, C.*, Mills, B. J. W., Xiong, Y., Tao, H., Lu, B., Liu, H., Xiao, W., Poulton, S. W.*, 2022. A nutrient control on expanded anoxia and global cooling during the Late Ordovician mass extinction. Communications Earth & Environment, 3, 82, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00412-x.

[5] Liu, C., Nie, J.*, Li, Z., Qiao, Q., Abell, J.T., Wang, F., Xiao, W.*, 2021. Eccentricity forcing of East Asian monsoonal systems over the past 3 million years. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118, e2107055118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2107055118.

[6] Zhu, R.*, Zhao, G., Xiao, W., Chen, L., Tang, Y., 2021. Origin, accretion, and reworking of continents. Reviews of Geophysics, 59, e2019RG000689. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019RG000689.

[7] Xiao, W.J.*, Windley, B.F., Sun, S., Li, J.L., Huang, B.C., Han, C.M., Yuan, C., Sun, M., Chen, H.L., 2015. A tale of amalgamation of three collage systems in the Permian-Middle Triassic in Central Asia: Oroclines, sutures and terminal accretion. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 43, 477-507, doi: 10.1146/annurev-earth-060614-105254.

[8] Xiao, W.*, 2015. New paleomagnetic data confirm a dual-collision process in the Himalayas. National Science Review, 2, 395-396. doi:10.1093/nsr/nwv056.

[9] Wang, T., Tong, Y., Xiao, W., Guo, L., Windley, B.F., Donskaya, T., Li, S., Narantsetseg, T., Zhang, J., 2022. Rollback, scissor-like closure of the Mongol-Okhotsk Ocean and formation of an orocline: Magmatic migration based on a large archive of age-data. National Science Review, 9, nwab210, https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwab210.

[10] Xiao, W.*, Pirajno, F., Seltmann, R., Safonova, I., Chen, Y., Muhtar, M.N., 2022. Metallogeny of the Southern Altaids: Key to understanding the accretionary tectonics and crustal evolution of Central Asia. Ore Geology Reviews, 144, 104871, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2022.104871.

[11] Xiao, W.*, Liu, Y., Somerville, I., Schulmann, K., Kusky, T, Seltmann, R., 2020. Accretionary tectonics, deep structures and metallogeny of southern Altaids. Geological Journal, 55, 1613-1619.

[12] Xiao, W.*, Song, D., Windley, B.F., Li, J., Han, C., Wan, B., Zhang, J., Ao, S., Zhang, Z., 2020. Accretionary processes and metallogenesis of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt: advances and perspectives. Science China Earth Sciences, 63, 329–361.

[13] Xiao, W.*, Zheng, Y.-F., Hou, Z., Windley, B., Zhao, G. Sun, M., Zhang, J., Song, D., Zhang, H., 2020. Tectonic framework and phanerozoic geologic evolution of China. SEG Special Publications, no. 22, pp. 21–102.

[14] Xiao, W.*, Windley, B., Zheng, Y.-F., Schulmann, K., Cunningham, D., Hou, Z., Huang, B., Zhao, G., Zhang, S., 2020. China and Mongolia—Precambrian-Paleozoic. Encyclopedia, Elsevier. 494-508, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-102908-4.00137-5.

[15] Xiao, W.J.*, Liu, Y.J., Hou, Z.Q., Li, S., 2019. A special issue devoted to the accretionary and collisional tectonics of the Altaids and its metallogeny. Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition), 93, I–VI.

[16] Xiao, W.J.*, Song, D.F., Han, C., Wan, B., Zhang, J.E., Ao, S.J., Zhang, Z.Y., 2019. Deep structure and metallogenic processes of the Altai-Junggar-Tianshan collage in southern Altaids. Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition), 93, 1163-1168.

[17] Xiao, W.J.*, Windley, B.F., Han, C.M., Liu, W., Wan, B., Zhang, J.E., Ao, S.J., Zhang, Z.Y., Song, D.F., 2018. Late Paleozoic to early Triassic multiple roll-back and oroclinal bending of the Mongolia collage in Central Asia. Earth-Science Reviews, 186, 94-128, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.09.020.

[18] Xiao, W.*, Shen, P., Chen, X., 2017. Tectonics, magmatism, and mineralization of Circum–Balkash–Junggar area in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt. International Geology Review 59, 1047-1052. 10.1080/00206814.2017.1326181.

[19] Xiao, W.*, Zhao G., 2017, Tectonics and metallogeny of the orogenic collages in Central and East Asia: Preface. Gondwana Research, 43, 1-3, DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2016.10.009.

[20] Xiao, W.J.*, Ao, S.J., Yang, L., Han, C.M., Wan, B., Zhang, J.E., Zhang, Z.Y., Li, R., Chen, Z.Y., Song, S.H., 2017. Anatomy of composition and nature of plate convergence: insights for alternative thoughts for terminal India-Eurasia collision. Science China (Earth Science), 60, 1015–1039. doi: 10.1007/s11430-016-9043-3.

[21] Xiao, W.*, Kusky, T., Safonova, I., Seltmann, R., Sun, M., 2015. Tectonics of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt and its Pacific analogues. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 113, 1-6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2015.06.032.

[22] Xiao, W.*, Sun, M., Santosh, M., 2015. Continental reconstruction and metallogeny of the Circum-Junggar areas and termination of the southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt. Geoscience Frontiers, 6, 137-140.

[23] Xiao, W.J.*, Santosh, M., 2014. The western Central Asian Orogenic Belt: A window to accretionary orogenesis and continental growth. Gondwana Research, 25, 1429-1444, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2014.01.008.

[24] Xiao, W.J.*, Windley, B.F., Allen, M., Han, C.M., 2013. Paleozoic multiple accretionary and collisional tectonics of the Chinese Tianshan orogenic collage. Gondwana Research, 23, 1316-1341, doi:10.1016/j.gr.2012.01.012.

[25] Xiao, W.*, Li, S.Z., Santosh, M., Jahn, B.-M., 2012. Orogenic Belts in Central Asia: Correlations and connections. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 49, 1-6.

[26] Xiao, W.J.*, Mao, Q.G., Windley, B.F., Qu, J.F., Zhang, J.E., Ao, S.J., Guo, Q.Q., Cleven, N.R., Lin, S.F., Shan, Y.H., Li, J.L., 2010. Paleozoic multiple accretionary and collisional processes of the Beishan orogenic collage. American Journal of Science, 310, 1553-1594, doi: 10.2475/10.2010.12.

[27] Xiao, W.J.*, Huang, B.C., Han, C.M., Sun, S., Li, J.L., 2010. A review of the western part of the Altaids: A key to understanding the architecture of accretionary orogens. Gondwana Research, 18, 253-273, doi:10.1016/j.gr.2010.01.007.

[28] Xiao, W.J.*, Kröner, A., Windley, B.F., 2009. Geodynamic Evolution of Central Asia in the Paleozoic and Mesozoic. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 98, 1185–1188, Doi: 10.1007/s00531-009-0418-4.

[29] Xiao, W.J.*, Windley, B.F., Han, C.M., Yuan, C., Sun, M., Li, J.L., Sun, S., 2009. End Permian to mid-Triassic termination of the southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 98, 1189–1217, Doi: 10.1007/s00531-008-0407-z.

[30] Xiao, W.J.*, Pirajno, F., Seltmann, R., 2008. Geodynamics and metallogeny of the Altaid orogen. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 32, 77-81, doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2007.10.003.

[31] Xiao, W.J.*, Han, C.M., Yuan, C., Sun, M., Lin, S.F., Chen, H.L., Li, Z.L., Li, J.L., Sun, S., 2008. Middle Cambrian to Permian subduction-related accretionary orogenesis of North Xinjiang, NW China: implications for the tectonic evolution of Central Asia. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 32, 102-117, doi: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2007.10.008.

[32] Xiao, W.J.*, Kröner, A., 2007. Sino-German Workshop-Geodynamic Evolution of Central Asia in the Paleozoic and Mesozoic, Beijing, China. Episodes, 30, 224-225.

[33] Xiao, W.J.*, Windley, B.F., Liu, D.Y., Jian, P., Liu, C.Z., Yuan, C., Sun, M., 2005. Accretionary Tectonics of the Western Kunlun orogen, China: A Paleozoic–Early Mesozoic, long-lived active continental margin with implications for the growth of southern Eurasia. Journal of Geology, 113, 687-705.

[34] Xiao, W.J.*, He, H.Q., 2005. Early Mesozoic thrust tectonics of the NW Zhejiang region (Southeast China). Geological Society of America Bulletin, 117(7/8), 945-961, doi: 10.1130/25417.

[35] Xiao, W.-J.*, Zhang, L.-C., Qin, K.-Z., Sun, S., Li, J.-L., 2004. Paleozoic accretionary and collisional tectonics of the Eastern Tianshan (China): Implications for the continental growth of central Asia. American Journal of Science, 304, 370-395.

[36] Xiao, W.J.*, Windley, B.F., Badarch, G., Sun, S., Li, J., Qin, K.Z., Wang, Z.H., 2004. Palaeozoic accretionary and convergent tectonics of the southern Altaids: implications for the lateral growth of Central Asia. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 161, 339-342.

[37] Xiao, W.J.*, Windley, B.F., Hao, J., Zhai, M.G., 2003. Accretion leading to collision and the Permian Solonker suture, Inner Mongolia, China: Termination of the central Asian orogenic belt. Tectonics, 22(6), 1069, doi: 10.1029/2002TC001484.

[38] Xiao, W.J.*, Han, F.L., Windley, B.F., Yuan, C., Zhou, H., Li J.L., 2003. Multiple accretionary orogenies and episodic growth of continents: Insights from the Western Kunlun Range, central Asia. International Geology Review, 45, 303-328.

[39] Xiao, W.J.*, Windley, B.F., Hao, J., Li, J.L., 2002. Arc-ophiolite obduction in the Western Kunlun Range (China): implications for the Palaeozoic evolution of central Asia. Journal of the Geological Society, London. 159, 517-528.

[40] Xiao, W.J.*, Windley, B.F., Chen, H.L., Zhang, G.C., Li, J.L., 2002. Carboniferous-Triassic subduction and accretion in the western Kunlun, China: Implications for the collisional and accretionary tectonics of the northern Tibetan plateau. Geology, 30, 295-298. [Below listed according to the year published]

[41] Fu, C., Yan, Z., Aitchison, J.C., Xiao, W., Buckman, S., Wang, B., Zhai, Q., 2022. Relicts of a Cambrian oceanic arc in the Lajishan suture, NE Tibetan Plateau: Evidence for early-stage subduction within the Proto-Tethyan Ocean. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 585, 110713.

[42] Gao, Y., Chen, L., Talebian, M., Wu, Z., Wang, X., Lan, H., Ai, Y., Jiang, M., Hou, G., Khatib, M.M., Xiao, W., Zhu, R., 2022. Nature and structural heterogeneities of the lithosphere control the continental deformation in the northeastern and eastern Iranian plateau as revealed by shear-wave splitting observations. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 578, 117284.

[43] Guo, B., Nie, J.*, Stevens, T., Buylaert, J-P., Peng, T., Xiao, W., Pan, B., Fang, X.M., 2022. Dominant precessional forcing of the East Asian summer monsoon since 260 ka. Geology, in press.

[44] Li, L., Xiao, W.*, Windley, B.F., Mao, Q., Gan, J., Jia, X., Yang, H., Sang, M., 2022. Defining the Huangcaopo complex and gabbroic magmatism in the northern Harlik Mountains (NW China): Late Cambrian- latest Permian accretionary growth of the East Junggar Arc? Geological Journal, 57, 1022–1045.

[45] Li, S., Miller, C.F., Wang, T., Xiao, W., Chew, D., 2022. Role of sediment in generating contemporaneous, diverse “type” granitoid magmas. Geology, 50, 427–431. doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/G49509.1.

[46]]Mao, Q.*, Ao, S., Windley, B.F., Zhang, Z., Sang, M., Tan, Z., Wang, H., Li, R., Xiao, W.*, Pan, Z., 2022. Middle–Late Triassic southward-younging granitoids: Tectonic transition from subduction to collision in the Eastern Tianshan–Beishan Orogen, NW China. Geological Society of America Bulletin, https://doi.org/10.1130/B36172.1, in press.

[47] Sun, J., Ding, Z., Xiao, W., Windley, B.F., 2022. Coupling between uplift of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt-NE Tibetan Plateau and accumulation of aeolian Red Clay in the inner Asia began at ~7 Ma. Earth-Science Reviews, 226, 103919.

[48] Wang, K., Xiao, W.*, Windley, B. F., Mao, Q., Ji, W., Sang, M., Hung, P., Wang, P., 2022. The Dashui subduction complex in the Eastern Tianshan-Beishan Orogen (NW China): Long-lasting subduction-accretion terminated by unique mid-Triassic strike-slip juxtaposition of arcs in the southern Altaids. Tectonics, 41, e2021TC007190. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021TC007190.

[49] Zhang, J.E., Xiao, W., Wakabayashi, J., Windley, B.F., Han, C., 2022. A fragment of Argoland from East Gondwana in the NE Himalaya. Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth, 127, e2021JB022631. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JB022631.

[50] Abuduxun, N., Xiao, W.*, Windley, B.F., Chen, Y., Huang, P., Sang, M., Li, L., Liu, X., 2021. Terminal suturing between the Tarim Craton and the Yili-Central Tianshan Arc: Insights from melange-ocean plate stratigraphy, detrital zircon ages, and provenance of the South Tianshan accretionary complex. Tectonics, 40(7), e2021TC006705.

[51] Ao, S.*, Mao, Q.*, Windley, B., Song, D., Zhang, Z., Zhang, J., Wan, B., Han, C., Xiao, W.*, 2021. The youngest matrix of 234 Ma of the Kanguer accretionary mélange containing blocks of N-MORB basalts: constraints on the northward subduction of the Paleo-Asian Kanguer Ocean in the Eastern Tianshan of the southern Altaids. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 110 (3), 791-808.

[52] Chen, Y., Zhang, J., Xiao, W.*, Zhou, R., Song, S., Zhang, Z., Ao, S., Sang, M., Zhang, Q., Li, R., Li, Z., Liu, Y., Zhang, H., Liu, J.-H, Wu, C., 2021. Late Silurian to early Devonian development of the Chingiz accretion arc, West Junggar: insights into accretion arc evolution in the Central Asia Orogenic Belt. International Geology Review, 63 (17), 2083-2103, https://doi.org/10.1080/00206814.2020.1824128.

[53] Hu, G., Wang, W.-(R.Z.)., Xiao, W., Wei, C., Zhao, Y., Liu, J., 2021. Crustal melting in a protracted hot setting in the Altai Orogen (NW China): Evidence from Permian leucogranite dykes in the metamorphic belt. Lithos, 384–385, 105962.

[54] Li, L., Xiao, W.*, Windley, B.F., Mao, Q., Jia, X., Yang, H., Tan, Z., Sang, M., Gan, J., Abuduxun, N., 2021. Contrasting Early Palaeozoic provenance of the Yemaquan and Harlik arcs in the SW Altaids (NW China): identification of cryptic sutures in accretionary orogens. International Geology Review, 63 (17), 2192-2214.

[55] Li, R., Ao, S., Xiao, W.*, Windley, B, Bhandari, S., 2021. Tectonic setting and provenance of Early Cretaceous strata in the footwall of Main Central Thrust, Eastern Nepal: Implications for the archipelago paleogeography of the Neo-Tethys. Geological Journal, 56(4), 1958-1973.

[56] Liu, K., Xiao, W., Wilde, S.A., Zhang, J., Alexandrov, I., Kasatkin, S.A., Ge, M., 2021. Syn-subduction strike-slip faults shape an accretionary orogen and its provenance signatures: Insights from Sikhote-Alin in NE Asia during the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous. Tectonics, 40(7), e2020TC006541.

[57]]Liu, X., Xu, J.-F., Castillo, P.R., Xiao, W., Shi, Y., Zhang, Z., Wang, X.-C., Ao, S., Wang, B., Hu, R., Shi, X., Yu, H., Liu, P., Song, Y., 2021. Long-lived low Th/U Pacific-type isotopic mantle domain: Constraints from Nd and Pb isotopes of the Paleo-Asian Ocean mantle. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 567, 117006.

[58]] Liu, Y., Xiao, W.J.*, Windley, B., Zhou, K.F., Li, R.S., Zhan, M.G., Sang, M., Yang, H., Jia, X.L., Chen, Y.C., Ji, W.H., Ao, S.J., 2021. Three stages of arc migration in the Carboniferous-Triassic in North Qiangtang, central Tibet, China: ridge-subduction and asynchronous slab rollback of the Jinsha Paleotethys. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 133(11-12), 2485-2500.

[59] Mao, Q.*, Ao, S.*, Song, D., Xiao, W.*, Windley, B.F., Sang, M., Tan, Z., Wang, H., Li, R., 2021. Silurian to early Permian slab melting and crustal growth in the southern Altaids: insights from adakites and associated mineral deposits in the Dananhu arc, Eastern Tianshan, NW China. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 110(6), 2115-2131.

[60] Mao, Q.*, Ao, S.*, Windley, B.F., Lu, X., Liao, Z., Wang, Y., Sang, M., Zhou, K., Han, C., Xiao, W.*, 2021. Cu-Ni mineralization in Early Permian mafic complexes in the Kalatage area of eastern Tianshan (NW China), Petrogenetic constraints from geochronology, geochemistry, and Hf-Sr-Nd-Os isotopes. Ore Geology Reviews, 136, 104258.

[61] Mao, Q., Ao, S.*, Windley, B.F., Wang, J., Li, Y., Xiao, W., 2021. Middle Triassic lower crust-derived adakitic magmatism: Thickening of the Dananhu intra-oceanic arc and its implications for arc-arc amalgamation in the Eastern Tianshan (NW China). Geological Journal, 56(6), 3137-3154.

[62] Mao, Q., Ao, S., Windley, B.F., Zhang, Z., Song, D., Zhang, J.e., Wan, B., Tan, W., Han, C., Xiao, W.*, 2021. Petrogenesis of Late Carboniferous-Early Permian mafic-ultramafic-felsic complexes in the eastern Central Tianshan, NW China: The result of subduction-related transtension? Gondwana Research, 95, 72-87.

[63] Mao, Q., Wang, J., Xiao, W.*, Windley, B.F., Schulmann, K., Ao, S., Yu, M., Zhang, J.E., Fang, T., 2021. From Ordovician nascent to early Permian mature arc in the southern Altaids: Insights from the Kalatage inlier in the Eastern Tianshan, NW China. Geosphere, 17(2), 647-683, https:// doi.org/10.1130/GES02232.1.

[64] Mao, Q., Xiao, W.*, Windley, B.F., Yu, M., Sun, M., Ao, S., Zhang, J.E., 2021. Early Permian subduction-related transtension in the Turpan Basin, East Tianshan (NW China), implications for accretionary tectonics of the southern Altaids. Geological Magazine, 158(1), 175-198, DOI: 10.1017/S0016756819001006.

[65] Song, D., Xiao, W., Windley, B, Han, C., 2021. Provenance and tectonic setting of late Paleozoic sedimentary rocks from the Alxa Tectonic Belt (NW China): Implications for accretionary tectonics of the southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 133, 253-276, https://doi.org/10.1130/B35652.1.

[66] Song, D., Xiao, W., Windley, B.F., Mao, Q., Ao, S., Wang, H.Y.C., Li, R., 2021. Closure of the Paleo-Asian Ocean in the Middle-Late Triassic (Ladinian-Carnian), Evidence from provenance analysis of retroarc sediments. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2021GL094276.

[67]] Song, S., Xiao, W.*, Chen, Y., Windley, B., Zhang, J., Chen, Z., 2021. Growth of an accretionary complex in the southern Chinese Altai: Insights from the Palaeozoic Kekesentao ophiolitic mélange and surrounding turbidites. Geological Journal, 56 (1), 265-283.

[68] Tian, Z., Liu, F., Yan, Z., Liu, P., Xu, W., Liu, L., Wen, F., Xiao, W., 2021. Palaeoproterozoic turbidite deposition in the Liaodong Peninsula, northeastern North China craton – Constraints from the Gaojiayu formation of the Liaohe Group. Precambrian Research, 352, 106008.

[69] Tian, Z., Xiao, W.*, Windley, B., Huang, P., Zhang, J., Ao, S., Zhang, Z., Song, D., Liu, F., 2021. Two key switches in regional stress field during multi-stage deformation in the Carboniferous-Triassic southernmost Altaids (Beishan, NW China): response to orocline-related roll-back processes. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 133(11-12), 2591-2611.

[70] Tohti, M., Wang, Y., Xiao, W., Di, Q., Zhou, K., Wang, J., An, S., Liao, S., 2021. Numerical simulation of seismic waves in 3-D orthorhombic poroelastic medium with microseismic source implementation. Geophysical Journal International, 227(2), 1012-1027.

[71] Wang, N., Zhang, Z., Malusa, M.G., Wu, L., Chew, D., Zhang, J., Xiang, D., Xiao, W., 2021. Pulsed Mesozoic exhumation in Northeast Asia: New constraints from zircon U-Pb and apatite U-Pb, fission track and (U-Th)/He analyses in the Zhangguangcai Range, NE China. Tectonophysics, 818, 229075.

[72] Wang, X., Cai, K., Sun, M., Zhao, G., Xiao, W., Xia, X., 2021, Evolution of Late Paleozoic magmatic arc in the Yili Block, NW China: implication for oroclinal bending in the western Central Asian Orogenic Belt. Tectonics, 39(12), e2019TC005822.

[73] Wu, Z., Chen, L., Talebian, M., Wang, X., Jiang, M., Ai, Y., Lan, H., Gao, Y., Khatib, M., Hou, G., Chung, S.-L., Liang, Zhao, L., Naimi-Ghassabian, N., Xiao, W., Zhu, R., 2021. Lateral structural variation of the lithosphere-asthenosphere system in the northeastern to eastern Iranian plateau and its tectonic implications. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126, e2020JB020256. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB020256.

[74] Yan, Z.*, Xiao, W.*, Aitchison, J.C., Yuan, C., Liu, C., Fu, C., 2021. Age and origin of accreted ocean plate stratigraphy in the North Qilian belt, NE Tibet Plateau: evidence from microfossils and geochemistry of cherts and siltstones. Journal of the Geological Society, 178(6), jgs2020-231.

[75] Yang, H., Xiao, W., Sang, M., Yunus, M., Zhang, H., Zhang, Z., Wang, J., Dzhovid, Y., Zhong, G., Luo, B., Zhou, K., Gufron, K., Chen, X. 2021. Age and petrogenesis of the gabbros from Tajik South Tianshan: implications for Early Paleozoic geodynamic evolution of the southwestern Central Asian Orogenic Belt. Lithosphere, 2020(1), 7866431, https://doi.org/10.2113/2020/7866431.

[76] Yang, H., Xiao, W., Sang, M., Yunus, M., Zhang, H., Zhang, Z., Wang, J., Dzhovid, Y., Zhong, G., Luo, B., Zhou, K., Gufron, K., Chen, X. 2021. Multiple Early Paleozoic granitoids from the southeastern Qilian orogen, NW China: Magma responses to slab roll-back and break-off. Lithos, 380, 105910.

[77] Yang, L., Xiao, W.*, Rahman, M., Dong, Y., Ao, S., Sun, J., Chen, Z., 2021. Geochemistry of Eocene to Pliocene strata of the Bengal Basin: Implications for provenance and erosion of the Himalaya. Geological Journal, 56(4), 1756-1772.

[78] Yin, J., Xiao, W., Spencer, C.J., Sun, M., Chen, W., Huang, H., Yuan, C., Zhang, Y., Huang, H., Xia, X., Tao, Z., 2021. The role and significance of juvenile sediments in the formation of A-type granites, West Junggar oceanic arc (NW China): Zircon Hf-O isotopic perspectives. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 133(7-8), 1560-1574, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1130/B35790.1.

[79] Zhang, J.E., Chen, Y., Xiao, W., Wakabayashi, J., Windley, B.F., Yin, J., 2021. Sub-parallel ridge-trench interaction and an alternative model for the Silurian-Devonian archipelago in Western Junggar and North-Central Tianshan in NW China. Earth-Science Reviews, 217: 103648.

[80] Zhang, Z., Liu, X., Xiao, W., Xu, J.-F., Shi, Y., Gong, X., Hu, R., Liu, P., Song, Y., Xiao, Y., Zhang, Z., Li, R., Li, D., 2021. Geochemistry and Sr-Nd-Hf-Pb isotope systematics of late Carboniferous sanukitoids in northern West Junggar, NW China: Implications for initiation of ridge-subduction. Gondwana Research, 99, 204-218.

[81] Zhao, L., Li, Y., Wang, G., Xiang, H., Xiao, W., Zheng, J., Brouwer, F.M., 2021. Early Paleozoic arc-accretion in the northern branch of the Proto-Tethys Ocean: New insights from detrital zircon U-Pb ages and geochemistry of paraschists from the Kuanping Complex, North Qinling Orogenic Belt, China. Lithos, 40, 106263.

[82] Zhao, L., Li, Y., Xiang, H., Wang, G., Zheng, J., Xiao, W., Chen, M., Brouwer, F.M., 2021. Meso-Neoproterozoic arc-related sediments of the Xiahe Group in the Qinling block, central China: Implications for the paleogeographic reconstruction of Rodinia. Precambrian Research, 361, 106263.

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