Published 2010
“…These in turn resulted in asthenospheric upwelling and generation of basaltic magmas that were either emplaced into the lower crust as dykes (Paper 2/Chapter 3), or were underplated beneath the crust, causing partial melting and generation of the granitoids (Paper 1/Chapter 2).The delamination of the NCC lithosphere during the Cretaceous can explain how the whole of
eastern Asia, including the
eastern and central NCC, the South China Craton (SCC) and the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB), were affected by extension, widespread magmatic activity and lithospheric thinning at this time (Zhou and Li, 2000; Fan et al., 2003; Zhang et al., 2003d;
Wu et al., 2005a).…”
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