Voluminous ∼2559–2495 Ma granitoid gneisses in Northern Liaoning, NCC.
Quartz dioritic to TTG gneisses stemmed from juvenile basaltic rocks.
Potassium-rich granitoids sourced from metasomatized mantle or metagreywackes.
A late Neoarchean (∼2.6–2.5 Ga) arc–continent accretion system.
Significant late Neoarchean crustal growth of the NLP and the entire NCC.