supported by the project of the State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy(Y126040124);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41172034 and 41221001);the project of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(2011ZX05008-001-10)
The present paper deals with a tectonic event of Late Ordovician age affecting three blocks of China,i.e.South China,North China and Tarim.In the North China and the Tarim platforms,as well as their marginal belts,the...