Cai-Ming Luo

Late Carboniferous Closure of the South Central Tianshan Ocean and the Implications for the Final Assembly of Pangea: New Depositional and Geochronological constraints from an Upper Carboniferous–Permian Stratigraphic Boundary marking the marine-to-terrestrial deposition in NW China

The assembly of Pangea was largely complete by the Late Triassic, but the collision timing between the southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB) and the Karakum-Tarim and North China cratons—specifically the closure of the South Central Tianshan Ocean—remains debated. We addressed this by integrating sedimentological...