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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.3" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:lang="ru"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">gtcrust</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="ru">Геодинамика и тектонофизика</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>Geodynamics &amp; Tectonophysics</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">2078-502X</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Institute of the Earth's crust of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5800/GT-2017-8-3-0249</article-id><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">gtcrust-390</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ПАЛЕОГЕОДИНАМИКА</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>PALEOGEODYNAMICS</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>ZIRCON U-PB AND HF ISOTOPIC STUDY OF THE KAWABULAKE OPHIOLITE EASTERN TIANSHAN: IMPLICATION FOR THE TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF CAOB</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>ZIRCON U-PB AND HF ISOTOPIC STUDY OF THE KAWABULAKE OPHIOLITE EASTERN TIANSHAN: IMPLICATION FOR THE TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF CAOB</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Ao</surname><given-names>Songjian</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Ao</surname><given-names>Songjian</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>Beijing 100029</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Beijing 100029</p></bio><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Xiao</surname><given-names>Wenjiao</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Xiao</surname><given-names>Wenjiao</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>Beijing 100012;</p><p>Urumqi 830011</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Beijing 100029;</p><p>Urumqi 830011</p></bio><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Mao</surname><given-names>Qigui</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Mao</surname><given-names>Qigui</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>Beijing 100012</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Beijing 100012</p></bio><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-3"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Windley</surname><given-names>Brian F.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Windley</surname><given-names>Brian F.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>Department of Geology,</p><p>Leicester LE1 7RH</p><p> </p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Department of Geology, </p><p>Leicester LE1 7RH</p></bio><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-4"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff-1"><aff xml:lang="ru"><institution>State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences</institution><country>Китай</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en"><institution>State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences</institution><country>China</country></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff-2"><aff xml:lang="ru"><institution>State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences;&#13;
Xinjiang Research Center for Mineral Resources, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences</institution><country>Китай</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en"><institution>State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences;&#13;
Xinjiang Research Center for Mineral Resources, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences</institution><country>China</country></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff-3"><aff xml:lang="ru"><institution>Beijing Institute of Geology for Mineral Resources</institution><country>Китай</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en"><institution>Beijing Institute of Geology for Mineral Resources</institution><country>China</country></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff-4"><aff xml:lang="ru"><institution>The University of Leicester</institution><country>Великобритания</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en"><institution>The University of Leicester</institution><country>United Kingdom</country></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2017</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>10</day><month>10</month><year>2017</year></pub-date><volume>8</volume><issue>3</issue><fpage>409</fpage><lpage>409</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Ao S., Xiao W., Mao Q., Windley B., 2017</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2017</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Ao S., Xiao W., Mao Q., Windley B.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Ao S., Xiao W., Mao Q., Windley B.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://www.gt-crust.ru/jour/article/view/390">https://www.gt-crust.ru/jour/article/view/390</self-uri><abstract><p>The Eastern Tianshan belt, located in the southern CAOB, played an important role in the crustal evolution, particularly because it links the Southern Tianshan suture to the west with the Inner Mongolia Solonker suture to the east. However, some critical issues, such as the exact position and formation age of the final suture zone of the Paleo-Asian ocean are still obscure or in controversy. Thus, here we have performed detailed studies of the Kwabulake ophiolit zone, a key part of the southern suture of the CAOB. New LA- ICPMS zircon U–Pb ages, Hf isotopic values, and whole-rock geochemical data have been presented to: (1) constrain the age of the Kawabulake ophiolite, (2) understand the petrogenesis of the granodiorites and their tectonic setting, and (3) reveal their implications for geodynamics of the Eastern Tianshan belt.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The Eastern Tianshan belt, located in the southern CAOB, played an important role in the crustal evolution, particularly because it links the Southern Tianshan suture to the west with the Inner Mongolia Solonker suture to the east. However, some critical issues, such as the exact position and formation age of the final suture zone of the Paleo-Asian ocean are still obscure or in controversy. Thus, here we have performed detailed studies of the Kwabulake ophiolit zone, a key part of the southern suture of the CAOB. New LA- ICPMS zircon U–Pb ages, Hf isotopic values, and whole-rock geochemical data have been presented to: (1) constrain the age of the Kawabulake ophiolite, (2) understand the petrogenesis of the granodiorites and their tectonic setting, and (3) reveal their implications for geodynamics of the Eastern Tianshan belt.</p></trans-abstract></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title></ref-list><fn-group><fn fn-type="conflict"><p>The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest present.</p></fn></fn-group></back></article>
