Wenlong Yang

Maturation of an early Paleozoic continental arc in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Petrogenesis of Silurian granitoids in northern West Junggar, NW China

Transformation of basaltic intra-oceanic arcs to mature continental arcs is responsible for considerable Phanerozoic juvenile crustal growth in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB), which is the largest accretionary orogenic belt in the world. Controversy has long surrounded th...