Z. Wang's scientific contributions

... The TOB is located at the collision zone of Kazakhstan, Siberian and Tarim blocks and belongs to the Palaeo-Asian Tectonic Domain. As an important part of the southern limb of the Kazakhstan Orocline in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt , it is composed of numerous micro-blocks including Precambrian micro-continents, Palaeozoic oceanic fragments, and continental arcs (Figure 1a) (Gao et al., 2009(Gao et al., , 2019Li et al., 2017Wang et al., 2017;Xiao et al., 2008;Xiao, Windley, Allen, & Han, 2013;Xu et al., 2011). The lithosphere of the TOB has undergone strong crust-mantle interaction resulting in the complex structural pattern and the unique Orogenic evolution related to the Palaeozoic continental-margin accretion-collisional orogeny and the Late Mesozoic intra-continental orogeny (Choulet et al., 2013;Ma, Shu, Meert, & Li, 2014;Xiao et al., 2013;Zhu et al., 2009). ...