The causes of continental arc flare ups and drivers of episodic magmatic activity in Cordilleran orogenic systems

JB Chapman, JE Shields, MN Ducea, SR Paterson… - Lithos, 2021 - Elsevier
Continental arcs in Cordilleran orogenic systems display episodic changes in magma
production rate, alternating between flare ups (70–90 km 3 km− 1 Myr− 1) and lulls (< 20 km …

Archean dome-and-basin style structures form during growth and death of intraoceanic and continental margin arcs in accretionary orogens

T Kusky, BF Windley, A Polat, L Wang, W Ning… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Determining whether plate tectonics or some other mode of planetary dynamics operated in
the early Archean is one of the most contentious and debated areas of Earth Sciences today …

Arclogites and their role in continental evolution; part 2: relationship to batholiths and volcanoes, density and foundering, remelting and long-term storage in the …

MN Ducea, AD Chapman, E Bowman, C Balica - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Arclogites are eclogite-like rocks formed magmatically as ultramafic residues and cumulates
in the roots of thick arcs (Ducea et al., 2021 companion paper). They are inferred to be …

Garnet stability in arc basalt, andesite, and dacite—an experimental study

DL Blatter, TW Sisson, WB Hankins - Contributions to Mineralogy and …, 2023 - Springer
Garnet's stability in arc magmas and its influences on their differentiation were explored
experimentally in a typical basalt, andesite, and dacite at conditions of 0.9–1.67 GPa, 800 …

[HTML][HTML] Generation of andesite through partial melting of basaltic metasomatites in the mantle wedge: Insight from quantitative study of Andean andesites

L Chen, YF Zheng, Z Xu, ZF Zhao - Geoscience Frontiers, 2021 - Elsevier
Continental crust in average exhibits a similar composition in both major and trace elements
to andesites along active continental margins. For this reason, andesitic magmatism above …

Neoproterozoic tectonics of the Jiangnan orogen: The magmatic record of continental growth by arc and slab-failure magmatism from 1000 to 780 Ma

W Le, TM Kusky, J Wei, Y Jie, Z Zuoxun - Precambrian Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Neoproterozoic NE-striking Jiangnan orogen in the South China Block (SCB)
separates the Cathaysia microcontinent on the southeast from the Yangtze craton in the …

The origin of the Late Quaternary back-arc volcanic rocks from Kamchatka: evidence from the compositions of olivine and olivine-hosted melt inclusions

N Nekrylov, DV Popov, PY Plechov… - … to Mineralogy and …, 2021 - Springer
A quarter of Kamchatka's Late Quaternary (< 50 ka) volcanic deposits is erupted in the back-
arc along the Sredinny Range (SR). The eruptions are represented by several dozens of …

Assessing the geological relationships between the mafic-ultramafic intrusion in the Haib area and the Vuurdood Subsuite, Richtersveld Subprovince

BA Jogee, GM Bybee, LJ Robb… - … African Journal of …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Haib porphyry copper deposit is situated in the Richtersveld Subprovince and is host to
unique Palaeoproterozoic porphyry copper mineralisation in Namibia. Several lines of …

Does underthrusting crust feed magmatic flare‐ups in continental arcs?

J Yang, W Cao, SM Gordon… - Geochemistry, Geophysics …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Episodic magmatic flare‐ups are documented in many continental arcs worldwide. Yet, the
causes of such episodicity and the sources feeding the flare‐ups are not well‐understood. In …

Unravelling the evolution of continents using detrital zircons from modern rivers

Z Zhu - 2023 - search.proquest.com
Detrital zircons collected from Earth's modern rivers provide the most representative
samples to study the evolution of the continental crust on a global scale. Most of the eroded …