Figure 1
From: Simultaneous and extensive removal of the East Asian lithospheric root
Map of Eastern Asia. Age distribution of Mesozoic and Cenozoic volcanic samples (Data sources available in Supplementary Material). Also shown is (1) the Mongol-Okhotsk Suture (remnant from the closure of the Mongol-Okhotsk Ocean), (2) Solonker Suture (remnant from the closure of the Paleo-Asian Ocean) and (3) Pacific plate active margin. Striped brown regions are sedimentary basins: NG, North Gobi; EG, East Gobi; Nya, Nyalga; Cho, Choibalsan. Tam, Tamtsag; HL, Hailar; Or, Ordos; HB, Huabei; BH, Bohai; EL, Erlian; SL, Songliao; SJ, Sanjiang. Crosses represent newly analysed samples for this study. The map was generated using CorelDRAW (www.coreldraw.com) and Google Earth (www.earth.google.com) software, with map data from: Google, Maxar Technologies.
