A review on the late Mesozoic extensional tectonics on the eastern North China Craton
Based on distribution characteristics of late Mesozoic metamorphic core complexes and prototype basins and geophysical characteristics of crust and upper mantle in the eastern North China Craton,the paper analyses the main controlling factors and formation mechanism of regional tectonic and lithospheric thinning and suggest that Mesozoic tectonic evolution of the studied area should result from subduction of Pacific plate,compression between Yangtze plate and North China plate and asthenosphere upwelling and the earth's surface,the boundary between upper and middle crust and Moho should be the key coupling interfaces between deep geologic process and shallow geologic structures.