Eastern North China Craton–North Australia Craton connection at 1.0 Ga through detrital zircon modelling

More and more similar Grenvillian orogeny-related late Mesoproterozoic detrital zircon age peaks reported from ca. 1.0 Ga strata among the Rodinia blocks make paleogeography reconstruction of the North China Craton more puzzling. In this work, we compile detrital zircon U-Pb data of the late Mesoproterozoic–early Neoproterozoic strata in the eastern North China Craton (ENCC) with coeval or older rock units from the potential provenances (e.g. North Australia, Siberia, Laurentia and India/Greater India cratons and the North Atlantic region), and present inverse Monte Carlo modelling. The result confirmed that ca. 1.0 Ga ENCC–North Australia Craton connection is most plausible, which is first quantitatively evaluated.