Intra-Oceanic Subduction of the Paleo-Asian Oceanic Slab: New Evidence from the Early Carboniferous Quartz Diorite in the Diyanmiao Ophiolite

Late Paleozoic supra-subduction zone(SSZ)-type ophiolites and intra-oceanic arc igneous petrotectonic assemblages are developed in the Erenhot-Hegenshan suture zone(EHSZ)in the eastern part of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt(CAOB).which contains information about the Late Paleozoic tectonic evolution of the Paleo-Asian Ocean(PAO)in the eastern CAOB.However,there are two main views and associated controversies about the closure time of the PAO in the eastern CAOB,which are“collision suture from Late Devonian to Early Carboniferous”and“final suture from Late Permian to Early Triassic”.