Reply to McDannell et al.: Thermal overprinting does not obscure the tectonic origin of the Great Unconformity

Liang Duan

State Key Laboratory of Continental Evolution and Early Life, and Department of Geology, Northwest University

Nicholas Christie-Blick

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University

Massimiliano Zattin

Department of Geosciences, University of Padova

Rong-Ruo Zhan

State Key Laboratory of Continental Evolution and Early Life, and Department of Geology, Northwest University

Zhao Yang

Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry

Bo Wan

State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric and Environmental Coevolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Valerio Olivetti

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University

Xingliang Zhang

State Key Laboratory of Continental Evolution and Early Life, and Department of Geology, Northwest University