• journal_title：Geology
• Contributor：Kenneth J. Hsü ; Sun Shu ; Li Jiliang ; Chen Haihong ; Pen Haipo ; A. M. C. Sengor
• Publisher：Geological Society of America
• Date：1988-
• Format：text/html
• Language：en
• Identifier：10.1130/0091-7613(1988)016<0418:MOTISC>2.3.CO;2
• journal_abbrev：Geology
• issn：0091-7613
• volume：16
• issue：5
• firstpage：418

Whether south China was a platform or a para-platform after the mid-Paleozoic deformation or whether the mountains of Huanan (= south China) form a Mesozoic collision-type orogen depends upon whether the ophiolite melange in the Yangtze region is Precambrian basement or was overthrust onto a foreland thrust belt during the Mesozoic. This paper presents evidence of tectonic windows under the melange and basement klippes above the melange in the Yangtze region.