Rutile is the most common naturally occurring titanium dioxide polymorph and is widely
distributed as an accessory mineral in metamorphic rocks ranging from greenschist to …

Water plays a critical role in erosion and sediment transport and this relationship is most
evident in the hyperarid Atacama Desert of Northern Chile, a region characterized by …

The Solonker suture records the termination of the central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB).
However, tectonic development of the Solonker suture is poorly understood. We report new …

Chemically zoned garnet growth and coeval modification of this zoning through diffusion are
calculated during prograde metamorphic heating to temperatures of up to 850° C. This …

None of the existing models for calc-alkaline “Late Granite”(Siluro–Devonian) genesis in the
metamorphic Caledonian orogenic belt of Ireland and Scotland fully explains their spatial …

This contribution provides an insight into the use of mineral chemistry in provenance
research, and demonstrates how studies, by using microbeam techniques on several detrital …

Detrital heavy-mineral assemblages respond to increasing burial diagenesis by progressive
dissolution of unstable components. Case studies from sedimentary basins worldwide show …

Recent advances in our understanding of Palaeozoic tectonics, and in the precise dating of
tectonic events require exact definitions of terminology. The Caledonian Orogeny is here …

The late Silurian to mid-or late Devonian interval in the Caledonides was a period
dominated, sequentially, by sinistral transpression, strike-slip and transtension during the …

In contrast to continent/continent collision, arc–continent collision generates very short-lived
orogeny because the buoyancy-driven impedance of the subduction of continental …