Pre-Yanshanian Geological Events in the Northern Margin of the
The northern NCC has undergone multiple magmatic processes after its cratonization during ~1.8 Ga. Large volumes of 1.35~1.30 Ga mafic sill (dyke) swarms in northern NCC are related to the breakup of the NCC from the Columbia supercontinent and might indicate that the NCC was probably a member of Nena including the Laurentia (North America and Greenland), Siberia and Baltica cratons in the supercontinent. The evolution of the northern continental margin of the NCC was probably initiated at 1.35