This belt is part of the Central Asia Orogenic Belt in China, including the Xianganling Range in the northern and western Songliao Basin and the orogenic belt in eastern Inner Mongolia. Orogenic belts of different periods also formed during the early and late Palaeozoic. The Mongolian-Okhotsk Orogenic Belt is located to the north, and the Sino-Korean Platform is located to the south, and there was a Palaeozoic ocean that divided the Siberian and Sino-Korean palaeocontinents prior to the orogeny.
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(2020). Hinggan-Mongolian Orogenic Belt. In: Chen, A., Ng, Y., Zhang, E., Tian, M. (eds) Dictionary of Geotourism. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2538-0_1058
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