Permian Series: Shanxi Formation: sandstone, shale and coal-bearing sequences; Hongmiaoling
Formation: mottled sandy shale, reddish sandy mudstone and gypsum salt.
Trip 4 The Yanshanian granites from the North China Craton
The Zhoukoudian pluton: quartz monzonite, monzonitic diorite, monzogranite, and granite
with MME.
3. Wutaishan area, Shanxi (Day 8-10,Day 7: travel from Beijing to Wutaishan)
Trip 5 North Shahe River to Dashiyu of Yingxian County
TTG gneisses and high pressure granulites; gabbro dykes; granite dykes.
Trip 6 Shahe to Hongmenyan
Green schist (2.51Ga) of the Wutai complex, and contact with the Beitai pluton; banded
magnetite quartzite; the Taihuai sub-group green rock-belt, including meta-dacite, meta-
rhyolite, green schist (meta-basalt, and meta-andesite).
Trip 7 Zhujiafang-dianmen-Yixingzhai-Dongshandi
Distribution and deformation features of the Zhujiafang ductile shear zone; components of
the super-crustal rocks; mineralogy and deformation structures of the late Archean TTG
gneisses (2.51Ga) and mafic dykes within the gneisses; rock types of the Jingangku
Formation metamorphic rocks, mineralogy, metamorphism and deformation of the lower part of
the Wutai Complex at Dongshandi.
4. Cenozoic volcanos in Datong, Shanxi Province(Day 12-13, Day 11: travel from Wutaishan
to Datong)
Volcanic landforms, rock types of volcanic rocks, origin of volcanism and its genetic link
with lithospheric evolution
Trip 8 Langwoshan-Haotianshan-Gelaoshan volcanos
Trip 9 Shenquansi-Dongpingshan volcanos
5. To complete practical report. (Day 14, includes travel Datong to Shenzhen)