Tectonic evolution of the North China Block: from orogen to craton to orogen, T M Kusky, B F Windley and M-G Zhai • Temporal and spatial distribution of Mesozoic mafic magmatism in the North China Craton and implications for secular lithosphere evolution, H-F Zhang • Contributions of the lower crust to Mesozoic mantle-derived mafic rocks from the North China Craton: implications for lithospheric thinning, F Huang, S-G Li and W Yang • Late Mesozoic mafic magmatism from the North China Block: constraints on chemical and isotopic heterogeneity of the subcontinental lithosphere mantle, W-M Fan, F Guo, Y-J Wang and H-F Zhang • Geochemistry of Mesozoic mafic volcanic rocks from the Yanshan belt in the northern margin of the North China Block: relations with post-collisional lithospheric extension, F Guo, W-M Fan, X-Y Li and C-W Li • Origin of Mesozoic magmatism in the North China Craton: constraints from petrological and geochemical data, B Chen, M-G Zhai and W Tian • Polyphase Mesozoic tectonics in the eastern part of the North China Block, insights from the eastern Liaoning Peninsula massif (NE China), W Lin, M Faure, P Monie and Q-C Wang • Mesozoic tectonics in the Eastern Block of the North China Craton: implications for subduction of the Pacific Plate beneath the Eurasian Plate, S-Z Li, T M Kusky, G-C Zhao, F Wu, W Fuyuan, J-Z Liu, M Sun, L Wang and W Lu • Deep crustal structures of the Yanshan intracontinental orogeny: a comparison with pericontinental and intercontinental orogenies, J Shao, G He and L Zhang • Upper crustal response to Mesozoic tectonism in western Liaoning, North China, and implications for lithosphere delamination, T D Cope and S A Graham • Phanerozoic evolution of the Inner Mongolia-Daxinganling orogenic belt in North China: constraints from geochronology of ophiolites and associated formations, L Miao, F Zhang, W-M Fan and D Liu • Late Mesozoic tectonic transition of the eastern North China raton: evidence from basin-fill records, Z Li, Y Li, J-P Zheng and D Han • Palaeogeothermal response and record of Late Mesozoic lithosphere thinning in the eastern North China Craton, S Hu, M Fu, S Yang, Y Yuan and J Wang • East Margin Fault of Yellow Sea - a part of the conjunction zone between Sino-Korea and Yangtze Blocks? T-Y Hao, Y Xu, M Suh, Ya Xu, J-H Liu, L-L Zhang and M-G Dai • Crustal P-wave velocity distribution and metallotectonics around the North China Craton, X Chang, Yike Liu, M-G Zhai and Yanghua Wang • Fluid evolution and large-scale gold metallogeny during Mesozoic tectonic transitions in the Jiaodong Peninsula, eastern China, H-R Fan, F-F Hu, J-H Yang and M-G Zhai • A mechanism for transforming buoyant North Chinese cratonic lithosphere to a denser equivalent for delamination, J-F Deng, M-F Zhou, M F J Flower, S-G Su, M-G Zhai, C Liu, G-C Zhao, X-G Zhao, S Zhou and Z-X Wu • Lithosphere thinning in eastern Asia: constraints, evolution and tests of models, T M Kusky, B F Windley and M G Zhai