SOME ESSENTIAL CHARACTERIISTICS OF REGIONAL GEOLOGYAND REGIONAL METALLOGENY OF THE CHINESE CONTINENT

From the viewpoint of the characteristics of regional geology and regional metallogeny inChina,it is first proposed in this paper that the bulk part of the Chinese continent was once theChinese proto-continent ,located independently between Laurasia and Gondwana. The basiccharacteristics of the proto-continent is that the stability of its stable region is relatively low,while the activity of its mobile regions is relatively weak.And a series of peculiar features areemphatically discussed in the present paper,such as sedimentary environments and sedimentaryformations ,magmatic activity and igneous formations , tectonic environments and features andmetalIogenic features of endogenic and exogenic mineral deposits,which are caused by basic ge-ological characteristics.