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 Himalayan range exposes a spectacular assemblage of metamorphic rocks from the
mid-and deep crust that have fostered numerous models of how the crust responds to …

An early extensive Neoproterozoic (ca. 900 Ma) continental magmatic arc system covering
hundreds of kilometers has been reported to occur in the South Beishan Orogenic Belt …

Pseudosection modelling is rapidly becoming an essential part of a petrologist's toolkit and
often forms the basis of interpreting the tectonothermal evolution of a rock sample, outcrop …

XMapTools is a MATLAB©-based graphical user interface program for electron microprobe
X-ray image processing, which can be used to estimate the pressure–temperature …

Plate tectonic forcing leads to changes in the physical conditions that affect the lithosphere.
In response to such changes, notably the local temperature (T) and pressure (P), rocks …

Exposures of high‐grade, midcrustal rocks within the Red River shear zone (RRSZ), which
separates the Indochina and South China blocks, exhibit clear evidence of left‐lateral …

This study assesses temperatures of formation of common granulites by combining
experimental constraints on the P–T stability of granulite-facies mineral associations with a …

Abstract The Trans-Hudson orogen of North America is a circa 1,800 million year old, middle
Palaeoproterozoic continental collisional belt. The orogen may represent an ancient …

The zirconium-in-rutile thermometer enjoys widespread use, but confidence in its accuracy
is limited because experiments were conducted at higher temperatures than many rutile …