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page 1Geology of China
Amurian Plate
tectonic plate
Yangtze Plate
tectonic plate
North China craton
continental crustal block in northeast China, Inner Mongolia, the Yellow Sea, and North Korea
Okinawa Trough
back-arc basin behind the Ryukyu arc-trench system in the West Pacific
South China
ancient continent that contained today's South and Southeast China, Indochina, and parts of Southeast Asia
Jehol Biota
stratigraphic unit in China
China University of Geosciences, Beijing
university branch in Beijing, China
Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences
geological research institute
geology of the Himalayas
origins and structure of the mountain range
China Geological Survey
Chinese geological survey (1962-)
Baishuitai
The mineral terraces of Baishuitai|right|thumb|300px
thumb|500px|Aerial panorama of the village
Cathaysia
thumb|330x330px|Map of the world at the Carboniferous-Permian boundary (~ 300 million years ago) showing Cathaysia (pink)
Cathaysia was a microcontinent or a group of terranes that rifted off Gondwana during the Late Paleozoic. They mostly correspond to the modern territory of China, historically referred to in Europe as Cathay, which was split into the North China and South China blocks.
Red River Fault
fault in China and Vietnam