Editing Cambrian (section)

=== North China ===
[[File:Life on the platform margin of the Miaolingian sea, North China.png|thumb|250px|Life reconstruction of the Linyi Lagerstätte in Northern China]]
North China lay at equatorial to tropical latitudes during the early Cambrian, although its exact position is unknown.<ref name="Wong Hearing-2021" /> Some models show that it lies below the equatorial latitudes.<ref>{{Citation |title=Cambrian |date=2016 |work=Earth History and Palaeogeography |pages=85–100 |editor-last=Cocks |editor-first=L. Robin M. |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/earth-history-and-palaeogeography/cambrian/022132ED90B5FE8E36C692DA601D92D5 |access-date=2025-02-06 |place=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-316-22552-3 |editor2-last=Torsvik |editor2-first=Trond H.}}</ref> Much of the craton was covered by shallow seas, with land in the northwest and southeast.<ref name="Torsvik-2017" />

Northern North China was a passive margin until the onset of subduction and the development of the Bainaimiao arc in the late Cambrian. To its south was a convergent margin with a southwest dipping subduction zone, beyond which lay the North Qinling terrane (now part of the [[Qinling orogenic belt|Qinling Orogenic Belt]]), together with Qilian-Qaidam, Altyn belts, and South West Kunlun terranes.<ref name="Domeier-2018" />