Editing Cambrian (section)

=== Central Asia ===
During the Cambrian, the terranes that would form [[Kazakhstania]] later in the Paleozoic were a series of island arc and [[Accretionary wedge|accretionary complexes]] that lay along an intra-oceanic convergent plate margin to the south of North China.<ref name="Domeier-2018" />

To the south of these the Tarim microcontinent lay between Gondwana and Siberia.<ref name="Torsvik-2017" /> Its northern margin was passive for much of the Paleozoic, with thick sequences of [[Carbonate platform|platform carbonates]] and [[Fluvial sediment processes|fluvial]] to marine sediments resting unconformably on Precambrian basement. Along its southeast margin was the [[Altyn-Tagh|Altyn]] Cambro–Ordovician accretionary complex, whilst to the southwest a subduction zone was closing the narrow seaway between the North West [[Kunlun Mountains|Kunlun]] region of Tarim and the South West Kunlun terrane.<ref name="Domeier-2018" />