Abstract The North China Craton (NCC) hosts some of the world-class gold deposits on the
globe, which can be classified into distinct types as the “Jiaodong type”, explosive breccia …

In this contribution we review the possibility of establishing the depositional age and tectonic
settings of metamorphosed carbonate rocks from continental collision zones in the East …

Abstract The Madurai Block in southern India is a composite collage of at least three sub-
blocks, with Neoarchean–Paleoproterozoic segments in the north and central domains, and …

Abstract The Precambrian Southern Granulite terrane of south India has a crustal evolution
history broadly bracketed between the late Archean and Cambrian with records of …

The Precambrian tectonic evolution and growth of continental crust in the southwestern
Tarim Craton in NW China remain enigmatic. In this contribution, we report petrography …

Sri Lanka is composed of four major tectonic units: the Wanni, Highland, Kadugannawa and
Vijayan complexes, with important records of Neoproterozoic tectonic events including …

The special calcite bodies (CBs) exposed within the ultrahigh temperature (UHT) granulite
facies terrain in the Balangoda area of Sri Lanka preserve shreds of evidence for the …

Abstract The Sri Lankan crustal blocks preserve the records of Neoproterozoic
tectonothermal events associated with the final assembly of the Gondwana supercontinent …

Granitoids are the major building blocks of Earth's continental crust, and provide important
insights into the evolution of continental crust and related mineral resources. Here we …

The global 'type area'charnockites and those in the surrounding localities within Madras
block of the Southern Granulite Terrane in India dominantly comprise felsic to intermediate …