Carboniferous back-arc extension in the southern Yili-Central Tianshan Block and its significance to the formation of the Kazakhstan Orocline: insights from the Wusun Mountain volcanic belt

In Central Asia, the Carboniferous is a crucial period in the formation of the Tianshan Belt and associated bending of the Kazakhstan tectonic collage. In order to reveal Carboniferous magmatic events of the region and their tectonic implications, we conducted field investigations, zircon U–Pb datin...

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