Continental crustal growth processes recorded in the Gangdese Batholith, southern Tibet

DC Zhu, Q Wang, RF Weinberg… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The continental crust in the overriding plate of the India-Asia collision zone in southern Tibet
is characterized by an overthickened layer of felsic composition with an underlying granulite …

Tibetan ore deposits: A conjunction of accretionary orogeny and continental collision

J Deng, Q Wang, X Sun, L Yang, DI Groves, Q Shu… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper reviews the spatial-temporal distribution, geological and geochemical features,
and geophysical context of diverse types of Cenozoic ore deposits formed during India …

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 …

Towards a universal model for orogenic gold systems: A perspective based on Chinese examples with geodynamic, temporal, and deposit-scale structural and …

Q Wang, L Yang, H Zhao, DI Groves, W Weng… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Although the term orogenic gold has become widely accepted over the past 20 years for
disseminated-to lode-style gold deposits that formed in a variety of tectonic environments …

Crustal magmatic controls on the formation of porphyry copper deposits

JW Park, IH Campbell, M Chiaradia, H Hao… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Porphyry deposits are large, low-grade metal ore bodies that are formed from hydrothermal
fluids derived from an underlying magma reservoir. They are important as major sources of …

How to make porphyry copper deposits

CTA Lee, M Tang - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2020 - Elsevier
Much of the world's economic copper resources are hosted in porphyry copper deposits
(PCDs), shallow level magmatic intrusions associated mostly with thick (> 45 km) magmatic …

Europium anomalies in zircon: a signal of crustal depth?

C Yakymchuk, RM Holder, J Kendrick… - Earth and Planetary …, 2023 - Elsevier
Trace element concentrations and ratios in zircon provide important indicators of the
petrological processes that operate in igneous and metamorphic systems. In granitoids, the …

Quantifying crustal thickness over time in magmatic arcs

L Profeta, MN Ducea, JB Chapman, SR Paterson… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
We present global and regional correlations between whole-rock values of Sr/Y and La/Yb
and crustal thickness for intermediate rocks from modern subduction-related magmatic arcs …

Raising the Gangdese mountains in southern Tibet

DC Zhu, Q Wang, PA Cawood… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The surface uplift of mountain belts is in large part controlled by the effects of crustal
thickening and mantle dynamic processes (eg, lithospheric delamination or slab breakoff) …

Rejuvenation of ancient micro-continents during accretionary orogenesis: Insights from the Yili Block and adjacent regions of the SW Central Asian Orogenic Belt

H Huang, T Wang, Y Tong, Q Qin, X Ma, J Yin - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract In the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB), whether substantial juvenile additions
associated with accretionary orogenesis are preserved is still a pending issue. The Yili Block …