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The North China craton is a typical block of old continental crust. Within the craton are two widely distributed rock successions: (1) a high-grade metamorphic basement and (2) an unmetamorphosed platformal sedimentary sequence deposited upon the deeply eroded basement. The basement, a fragment of old continental crust that was cratonized about 2.7 Ga, was truncated in Early Proterozoic time by the northwest-trending Wutai rift. The rift was filled with a normal volcanic-sedimentary (greenstone) succession that was intruded by anatectic granites.
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Qian, X. (1995). Evolution and Tectonic Environment of the Late Precambrian Aulacogen System of the North China Craton. In: Ojakangas, R.W., Dickas, A.B., Green, J.C. (eds) Basement Tectonics 10. Proceedings of the International Conferences on Basement Tectonics, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0831-9_43
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