CONTENTS. 



PAOB. 



INTRODUCTION ................... v 



CHAPTER I. ARCHEAN ................. 



CHAPTER II. PROTEROZOIC ................ 



Proterozoic Strata . ............... 



Wu-t'ai System (Eo-Proterozoic) ....... ...... 4 



Hu-t'o System (Neo-Proterozoic) ............ 7 



Pre-Sinian Rocks of Central China ............ 1 3 



Ancient Metamorphic Rocks beyond China v ..... 2O 



Pre-Sinian Diastrophism ............... 2 4 



Pre-Sinian Unconformity ............... 3 1 



CHAPTER III. EARLY PALEOZOIC ...... ' ...... 



Sinian System (Cambro-Ordovician) ............. 



The name and its application ........ 35 



Sinian in China ............... 



Lower Sinian . . .............. 37 



Nan-t'ou tillite .............. _ ^ 39 



Middle Sinian, Kiu-lung group ............ 4 



Upper Sinian ................ 4 2 



Sinian in general ......... 43 



Post -Sinian Diastrophism ............... 49 



CHAPTER IV. MIDDLE PALEOZOIC ....... ...... 



Siluro-Devonian Strata of China ....... ..... 53 



Middle Paleozoic Strata beyond China ...... 59 



Middle Paleozoic Diastrophism ........... 



Pre-Carboniferous Unconformity .............. 6 7 



CHAPTER V. LATE PALEOZOIC ......... 



Carboniferous Strata ................ 



Marine Carboniferous ....... ........ 



Continental Carboniferous .......... .... 75 



CHAPTER VI. PERMO-MESOZOIC .... 



Transition from Paleozoic to Mesozoic ............. 



Theoretical considerations ............. 



Permo-Triassic Strata ................ 



Angara series ......... 



Central China ........... 8 3 



Jurassic ................... 6 



Permo-Mesozoic Diastrophism .............. 9 



CHAPTER VII. CONTINENTAL ASIA .............. 95 



Cretaceous .................... 



Tertiary and Quaternary ............... 



CHAPTER VIII. CONTINENTAL STRUCTURE OF ASIA 



Hypothesis of Continental Structure ............ "5 



Continental Elements of Asia ............. 



Tangential Compression ............... 



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