TY  - JOUR
N2  - We review the processes of accretion of continental blocks during the Tertiary in SE Asia and the western Pacific with the aim of better understanding the evolution of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt, which is a Neoproterozoic to mid-Phanerozoic orogenic collage surrounded by the East European, Siberian, Tarim, and North China cratons. In the western Pacific, there is abundant evidence of sequential plate-tectonic processes from accretion to continent-arc/continent collision, via exhumation and suprasubduction. Early processes involve seafloor spreading, subduction, accretion, arc formation, and back-arc extension. Two important types of tectonic setting and evolution are recognized along the present Pacific convergent margin: sediment/crust accretion and tectonic erosion. Five major accretionary complexes are well illustrated in the Japanese Islands. Tectonic erosion removes material by underscraping the lower part of the upper plate. Subduction is also associated with back-arc extension, particularly in Indonesia and the SW Pacific region. Arc-arc collisional complexes are present in Taiwan, the Philippines, and Japan. The geological record of SE Asia and the western Pacific provides a robust modern analogue for the geological and tectonic history of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt, before it was affected by high-temperature metamorphism. © 2013 Geological Society of America.
IS  - 3
ID  - scholars3726
KW  - Erosion
KW  -  Accretionary complex; Back-arc extensions; Central Asian orogenic belt; Continental blocks; Convergent margin; North China Craton; Seafloor spreading; Tectonic settings
KW  -  Tectonics
KW  -  accretion; arc-arc collision; arc-continent collision; backarc basin; continental arc; exhumation; metamorphism; orogenic belt; plate tectonics; rifting; seafloor spreading; subduction; tectonic evolution; Tertiary
KW  -  Pacific Ocean; Pacific Ocean (West); Southeast Asia
Y1  - 2013///
A1  - Wakita, K.
A1  - Pubellier, M.
A1  - Windley, B.F.
JF  - Lithosphere
UR  - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84878939415&doi=10.1130%2fL234.1&partnerID=40&md5=bd7597c1787bb9f4941c2336b1cc87cd
VL  - 5
AV  - none
N1  - cited By 58
TI  - Tectonic processes, from rifting to collision via subduction, in SE asia and the western pacific: A key to understanding the architecture of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt
SP  - 265
PB  - Geological Society of America
SN  - 19418264
EP  - 276
ER  -