Tectonic map of China and its adjoining areas

Geotectonic Map

Continental Crust Formation and Recycling in Precambrian Period

Siberia

New Siberian Continental Mass Group

Gondwana

Gondwana affiliated blocks

Paleo-China Continental Mass Group

Phanerozoic continental crust formation and recycling

Ancient Asian Mountainous Region

Sayan-Erguna Sarayer (Xingkai) Orogenic System

Tianshan-Xingan Variscan Orogenic System and Hangai-Kent Variscan Orogenic Belt (HK)

Ural-South Tianshan Variscan Orogenic System

Kunlun-Qilian-Qinling Caledonian-Variscan Orogenic System and South China Caledonian Orogenic Belt (SC)

Mountainous Tethys

Indosinian-Yanshanian Orogenic System of North Tethys

South Tethys Himalayan Orogenic System

Mountainous areas around the Pacific Ocean

Yanshanian Orogenic System on the Eastern Margin of Asia and Late Himalayan Island Arc System in the Western Pacific

Orogenic boundary

Microblock Number (1-53) Strongly Involved in Orogenic Belt

Pro-Siberian Continental Mass:

1 Balgurzin; 2 Jablonov; 3 Tuva-Mongolia; 4 Erag; 5 Middle Mongolia-Erguna

Paleo-China Continental Mass Group:

6 Karakum; 7 Kizil dead wood; 8 Kirkchetaf; 9 Isaic; 10 Balkhash-Ili; 11 Junggar; 12 Turpan; 13 Dali Ganga; 14 Zhalantun; 15 Orunchun; 16 Jieya; 17 Dunhuang; 18 Star Gorges; 19 Dry Mountains; 20 Yagan; 21 Tortosan; 22 Sirinhot; 23 Songhua River; 24 Bria- Jiamusi; 25 Xingkai; 26 West Kunlun Central; 27 Sweet Water Sea; 28 Altun; 29 Jinshuikou; 30 Cold Lake; 31 Oolong Brook; 32 Middle Qilian; 33 East Qinling Central; 34 Wudang; 35 Dabie; 36 Sujiao; 37 Jingji; 38 Changdu; 39 Ruogai; 40 Zhongzan; 41 Puer; 42 Indo-Nanhai; 43-Yunkai; 44 Zhejiang and Fujian. 45 Lingnan; 46 cicadas;

Pro-Gondwana Land Mass:

47 Badakhshan; 48 Qiangtang; 49 Mainland-Myanmar Masu; 50 Lhasa; 51 Himalayas; 52 Heise River; 53 North Mountains