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PROF. J. S. LEE delivered a lecture before the Geological Society on June 5 on a subject of which he is the leading authority: “The Structural Pattern of China and its Dynamic Interpretation”. Since the time of Suess, it has been generally accepted that tho structural framework of eastern Asia consists of a series of arcs with the ‘Amphitheatre of Irkusk’ as their common centre. Modern researches, however, have shown that each of these arcs embraces features of different tectonic origin. Three main groups of structural elements arc now recognised: (a) the Cathaysian geosynclines and their complementary geanticlines; (b) the east-west zones; and (c) the shear-forms. These seem to be fundamentally independent of each other, although they sometimes fall in line and sometimes interfere.
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Tectonic Framework of China. Nature 136, 268 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136268a0
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