The above article from Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition), published online on 27 December 2018 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com) and in Volume 92, Issue 6, pp. 2297–2309, has been retracted by agreement between the authors, the journal Editor in Chief, Professor Zengqian Hou and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. The retraction has been agreed due to major overlap with a previously published article from the same group of authors published in Chinese.