Cover Image Credits: Simplified tectonic divisions of Asia. The Central Asian Orogenic Belt [CAOB, also known as the Altaid tectonic collage, see Sengör and others, 1993*] is in yellow. It lies between the Siberian Craton in the north and the Tarim Craton in the south. Exposed Archaean to Early Proterozoic rocks are shown in red. Pacific fold-belts are shown in green. It is possible that the Hida Belt of Japan belongs tectonically to the CAOB. Cover image and figure caption modified from figure 1 from Bor-ming Jahn's 2004 article published in Special Publication 226 of the Geological Society of London (Jahn, B.-M., 2004, The central Asian orogenic belt and growth of the continental crust in the Phanerozoic, in Malpas, J., Fletcher, C. J. N., Ali, J. R., and Aitchison, J. C., editors, Aspects of the Tectonic Evolution of China: Geological Society of London, Special Publications, v. 226, p. 73-100.) (*Sengör, A. M. C., Natal'in, B. A., and Burtman, V. S., 1993, Evolution of the Altaid tectonic collage and Paleozoic crustal growth in Eurasia: Nature, v. 364, p. 299-307.)