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Temporospatial variation in the late Mesozoic volcanism in southeast China
State Key Laboratory for Mineral Deposits Research, School of Earth
Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023 China
State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and
Exploitation, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu 610059, China
Yongxiang Li
State Key Laboratory for Mineral Deposits Research, School of Earth
Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023 China
Jingyu Wang
State Key Laboratory for Mineral Deposits Research, School of Earth
Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023 China
Chaokai Zhang
State Key Laboratory for Mineral Deposits Research, School of Earth
Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023 China
Yin Wang
East China Mineral Exploration and Development Bureau, Nanjing 210007, China
Ling Liu
East China Mineral Exploration and Development Bureau, Nanjing 210007, China
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Short summary
Western Pacific plate subduction played a key role in the late Mesozoic geologic evolution and volcanism in East Asia. New and published zircon U–Pb ages of extrusive rocks are compiled in SE China. Results show that the volcanism mainly spanned ~95 Myr (mainly 70 Myr, Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous) and migrated northwest from the coast inland, implying the Paleo-Pacific Plate subducted northwestward and the roll-back subduction did not begin until the Aptian (~125 Ma) of the mid-Cretaceous.
Western Pacific plate subduction played a key role in the late Mesozoic geologic evolution and...
