| Abstract: | Collision and amalgamation of continent and microcontinent block were recognized as one of the major processes for building up a continent. The pre Jurassic structure of Northeast China and its adjacent region (including south of Russia Far East, north of North Korea and inner part of southwest Japan) is characterized by collision and amalgamation of microcontinent blocks, such as the North China block (NCB), Northeast China block (NECB), Khanka block and Hida block.The central Jilin belt and Yanbian Grodekovsk belt that juxtapose and amalgamate these blocks in between in Northeast China and its vicinity were formed by a series of rock assemblages that are typical for Paleozoic active continental margin island arcs. The dominant Permian marine sequences in Yanbian (Yanbian Grodekovsk) belt, which are known for bearing transitional marine fauna, include turbidite olistostrome sediments of a slope facies, and limestones, sandstones as well as siltstones of a neritic littoral facies sediments along with predominant acidic to intermediate volcanic materials. The Maizuru belt in southwest Japan is supposed to be the equivalent of Yanbian Grodekovsk belt. The central Jilin belt consists of a well developed sedimentary sequence and volcanics of Paleozoic. The Bamiantong Gudonghe Fuerhe Chongjin suture complex in Northeast China and the equivalent Sangun Akiyoshi belt in southwest Japan serve as a major suture zone among these microcontinental blocks and belts. |
