A >300 Myr Long‐Lived Topographic Highland Along the Northern North China Craton Margin Driven by Multistage Continental Convergence
Heng Peng·Lin Ding·Yì Wáng·Yazuo Niu·Yahui Yue·Jingbo Sun·Bitian Wei·Chiyang Liu·Massimiliano Zattin·Licheng Wang
Abstract Topographic highlands commonly develop along convergent plate boundaries through long‐term processes such as subduction and continental collision. However, the pre‐Cenozoic mountain‐building history of deep‐time orogenic systems in northeastern Pangaea remains poorly constrained due to later tectonic overprinting and denudation. Here we present detrital zircon U–Pb–Hf data to reconstruct the Phanerozoic provenance and exhumation of the northern North China Craton (NCC). Our results indi