Secular evolution of continents and the Earth system

PA Cawood, P Chowdhury, JA Mulder… - Reviews of …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Understanding of secular evolution of the Earth system is based largely on the rock and
mineral archive preserved in the continental lithosphere. Based on the frequency and range …

Reconstructing crustal thickness evolution from europium anomalies in detrital zircons

M Tang, WQ Ji, X Chu, A Wu, C Chen - Geology, 2021‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A new data compilation shows that in intermediate to felsic rocks, zircon Eu/Eu*[chondrite
normalized Eu/] correlates with whole rock La/Yb, which has been be used to infer crustal …

Provenance analysis of the Cretaceous Gyeongsang Basin, SE Korea: A synthesis and tectonic implications for active continental margin in East Asia

YI Lee, JI Lee, YS Choi - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023‏ - Elsevier
In the middle to late Mesozoic period, the Korean Peninsula was in an active continental
margin with an accretionary complex developed in the direction of trench to the southeast …

Quantitatively tracking the elevation of the Tibetan plateau since the cretaceous: Insights from whole‐rock Sr/Y and La/Yb ratios

F Hu, F Wu, JB Chapman, MN Ducea… - Geophysical Research …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Crustal thickness, elevation, and Sr/Y and (La/Yb) N of magmatic rocks are strongly
correlated for subduction‐related and collision‐related mountain belts. We quantitatively …

Plumbing the depths of magma crystallization using 176Lu/177Hf in zircon as a pressure proxy

H Moreira, A Buzenchi, CJ Hawkesworth… - …, 2023‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Extensional tectonics are marked by shallow magma crystallization depths, whereas
compressional tectonics are associated with deeper crystallization depths. This implies that …

Detrital zircon REE and tectonic settings

P Hu, Q Zhai, PA Cawood, RF Weinberg, G Zhao… - Lithos, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Earth's long-term history is preserved in the rock archive, yet this record is incomplete,
hindering our understanding of how tectonic processes have evolved and shaped our …

An exploratory study of “large‐n” detrital zircon geochronology of the Book Cliffs, UT via rapid (3 s/analysis) U–Pb dating

KE Sundell, GE Gehrels, M D. Blum, JE Saylor… - Basin …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Detrital zircon (DZ) U–Pb geochronology has improved the way geologists
approach questions of sediment provenance and stratigraphic age. However, there is …

Detrital zircon record of Phanerozoic magmatism in the southern Central Andes

TN Capaldi, NR McKenzie, BK Horton… - …, 2021‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The spatial and temporal distribution of arc magmatism and associated isotopic variations
provide insights into the Phanerozoic history of the western margin of South America during …

Paleogeographic reconstruction of Precambrian terranes reworked by Phanerozoic orogens: An example based on detrital zircon REE from Lhasa terrane in southern …

P Hu, Q Zhai, PA Cawood, RF Weinberg… - Geophysical …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Paleogeographic reconstruction of Precambrian terranes reworked by Phanerozoic orogens
(eg, the Tibetan Plateau) results in complex lithotectonic relations due to intracrustal …

Two‐dimensional quantitative comparison of density distributions in detrital geochronology and geochemistry

KE Sundell, JE Saylor - Geochemistry, Geophysics …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Detrital geochronology provides insight into a broad range of Earth Science questions.
However, detrital zircon U‐Pb age distributions are inherently univariate, and thus …