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Late Jurassic – Early Cretaceous continental extension in northeast Asia – Relationships to plate kinematics

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Northeast Asia is the greatest area in the world where continental extension is documented, from Transbaikalia to the Pacific coast. The major extensional events occurred during Late Jurassic - Early Cretaceous times and are marked by rift basins filled with continental sediments and volcanic rocks, metamorphic core complexes, and extensive magmatism. Here, we review the different types of extensional structures in the region using our own examples from eastern Mongolia, including new data from the Gobi area, and those previously documented in the adjacent regions. We further provide a compilation of available ages, including new data from Transbaikalia, to constrain crustal stretching throughout northeastern Asia. Our analysis shows that extension is not correlated to orogenic collapse, but is coeval with two major changes in plate kinematics that occurred at ca. 140 Ma: the closure of the Mongol-Okhotsk Ocean and a major change in the subduction direction of the Izanagi oceanic plate towards northeast Asia, from high-angle to low-angle convergence. These major changes in plate kinematics combined with an abnormally hot pre-extension state of the continental lithosphere might have triggered spreading in northeast Asia.
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insu-01539865 , version 1 (15-06-2017)

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Yannick Daoudene, Denis Gapais, Jean-Pascal Cogné, Gilles Ruffet. Late Jurassic – Early Cretaceous continental extension in northeast Asia – Relationships to plate kinematics. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, 2017, Insights to the geology and paleontology of Siberia from French-Siberian collaboration in Earth Sciences, 188 (1-2), pp.Art. n°10. ⟨10.1051/bsgf/2017011⟩. ⟨insu-01539865⟩
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