The tectonics and metallogenesis of Asia / Тектоника и металлогенез Азии

The Asian continent is the main part of the greatest continental plate—Eurasian plate, on the Earth. The Asian continent covers the tremendous area and has a very long geological history, complex intraplate deformations, a lot of mineral resources and the changeable ecologic environment. Researching the Asian tectonics, which plays a dominant role in the resources and environments, is an interesting subject. With the rapid development of society and economy, it is becoming more and more important, interesting and urgent to re-recognize and understand the relationship between the Asia tectonic evolution and giant ore deposit (including giant or supergiant ore fields and provinces) from the perspective of lithospheric plate tectonics.
Since the late period of 1960s, the Plate Tectonic Theory (Wilson 1970; Le Pichon et al. 1973; Press and Siever 1974), based on the research of oceanic floor, has been well developed. Since that period, the abundant practical data have been accumulated in the research of continental tectonics. Obviously, how to understand the tectonics of the Asian continent has the great theoretical significance and application value (Jin and Yao 2004; Guo et al. 2004; Zhang et al. 2006; Wan et al. 2008). Thus, based on the research of China continental tectonics (Wan 2011), the author will make further investigation and discussion on the Asian continental lithospheric tectonics and the relative formation background of main mineral resources.
For the tectonic research of China continental lithosphere, the monograph is mainly originated from the original data of 1:200,000 regional geological surveys and petroleum geological surveys for the most of Chinese areas. For the Xizang (Tibet) and Xinjiang areas, it is from the original data of 1:1,000,000 regional geological surveys and some important results of 1:250,000 regional geological surveys (Wan 2011). In recent years, the author has collected many involved data of Asia tectonics and the reference materials of 242 giant ore deposits, fields and provinces, to discuss the relationship between tectonics and mineralization. As a result, the author points out their dominant tectonic-controlling factors of giant deposits, metallogenesis and then tries to discuss and propose the further exploration suggestions. <...>