North China Craton

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continental crust block craton

The North China Craton is an ancient, once-stable block of continental crust in northern China that preserves some of Earth’s oldest rocks and records a complex history of tectonic assembly and destruction.

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All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
North China Craton canonical 4
Sino-Korean Craton 2
Eastern Block of the North China Craton 1

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf continental crust block ⓘ
craton ⓘ
alsoKnownAs North China Craton ⓘ
surface form: North China Block

North China Craton ⓘ
surface form: Sino-Korean Craton
borderedBy Central Asian Orogenic Belt ⓘ
Qinling–Dabie orogeny ⓘ
surface form: Qinling–Dabie orogenic belt

Sino-Korean orogenic systems ⓘ
Yangtze Plate ⓘ
surface form: Yangtze Craton
contains some of Earth’s oldest rocks ⓘ
country China ⓘ
hasFeature Phanerozoic sedimentary cover ⓘ
Proterozoic rift basins ⓘ
abundant mineral resources ⓘ
ancient continental nucleus ⓘ
complex tectonic history ⓘ
craton destruction ⓘ
gold deposits ⓘ
granitoid plutons ⓘ
greenstone belts ⓘ
high-grade gneiss terrains ⓘ
lithospheric thinning ⓘ
major coal deposits ⓘ
major iron ore deposits ⓘ
metamorphic basement complexes ⓘ
multiple tectonothermal events ⓘ
once-stable lithospheric root ⓘ
rare earth element deposits ⓘ
records tectonic assembly and destruction ⓘ
hasGeologicalAge Archean ⓘ
Paleoproterozoic ⓘ
hasSubdivision North China Craton self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Eastern Block of the North China Craton

Trans-North China Orogen ⓘ
Western Block of the North China Craton ⓘ
locatedIn northern China ⓘ
locatedOnContinent Asia ⓘ
partOf East Asian continental crust ⓘ
significantFor mineral resource exploration ⓘ
studies of craton destruction ⓘ
studies of early continental crust evolution ⓘ
studies of lithosphere–asthenosphere interaction ⓘ
underwentProcess Archean crustal growth ⓘ
Mesozoic craton destruction ⓘ
Mesozoic lithospheric thinning ⓘ
Paleoproterozoic cratonization ⓘ
continental collision ⓘ
delamination of lithospheric mantle ⓘ
extension ⓘ
mantle metasomatism ⓘ
rifting ⓘ
subduction-related magmatism ⓘ

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

supercontinent Columbia (Nuna) → containsCraton → North China Craton ⓘ
subject surface form: Columbia
supercontinent Columbia (Nuna) → containsCraton → North China Craton ⓘ
subject surface form: Nuna
North China Craton → hasSubdivision → North China Craton self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Eastern Block of the North China Craton
North China Craton → alsoKnownAs → North China Craton ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sino-Korean Craton
North China Craton → alsoKnownAs → North China Craton ⓘ
this entity surface form: North China Block
Yanshanian orogeny → affects → North China Craton ⓘ
Chinese continental crust → hasPart → North China Craton ⓘ
Qinling–Dabie orogeny → relatedTo → North China Craton ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sino-Korean Craton