1 Geologic setting The Xilin Gol Complex outcrops in the Bayan Gol area about 100 km to the northeast of Xilinhot City, Inner Mongolia (fig.1). Shao considered that the Xilin Gol Complex was an old tcrrane in the Paleozoic fold 1 Geologic setting The Xilin Gol Complex outcrops in the Bayan Gol area about 100 km to the northeast of Xilinhot City, Inner Mongolia (fig.1). Shao considered that the Xilin Gol Complex was an old tcrrane in the Paleozoic fold