Talk:Yangtze Plate

Latest comment: 11 years ago by 66.235.38.214 in topic Untitled

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How would the collision of the south China plate against the north China plate... have created a basin? Continent-continent collisions generate mountains, e.g. Uralian orogeny.66.235.38.214 (talk) 11:21, 20 October 2012 (UTC)Reply

The Sichuan basin is the location of the end-Permian Emeishan Traps flood basalt, of geologically-similar age, to the south China - north China collision cited in the article. Could the Sichuan basin, and flood basalts therein, have formed as a result of rifting, between the two Chinese terranes? 66.235.38.214 (talk) 13:25, 20 October 2012 (UTC)Reply