Assembly, accretion, and break-up of the Palaeo-Mesoproterozoic Columbia supercontinent: record in the North China Craton revisited

• Main Authors: Zhao, G., Li, S., Sun, M., Wilde, Simon
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Bellwether Publishing 2011
• Subjects: Columbia; North China Craton; rifting; collision; supercontinent; Obo; Antarc*; Antarctica; Siberia
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/49185

Columbia is a Palaeo-Mesoproterozoic supercontinent that was assembled during global 2.0–1.8 Ga collisional events, underwent long-lived, subduction-related accretion at key continental margins in the period 1.8–1.3 Ga, commenced to fragment ~1.6 Ga ago, and finally broke up at ~1.3 Ga. Similar to m...