Chinese Himalayan tectonic map

Types of crustal structure

Continental crust

Basement eminence

Yanshanian fold uplift

Inland Open Basin

Early Tertiary Faulted Basin

Late Tertiary Overlap Area

Piedmont-intermountain Basin

N-Q Rift Basin

Coal-bearing fault basin

Early residual sea area (E2)

Early Tertiary transgressive zone

Late Tertiary transgressive zone

Transitional crust

Late Tertiary Continental Margin

Oceanic crust

Magmatic Activities

Granite intrusive rocks; E mafic volcanic rocks; E-N neutral mafic volcanic rocks; N mafic volcanic rocks; N-Q mafic volcanic rocks

Others

Yanshanian crustal docking zone

Himalayan crustal subduction zone

Translational fracture

Basement faults or synsedimentary faults