Secular evolution of continents and the Earth system

PA Cawood, P Chowdhury, C Wang, L Bagas, Y Lu, M Santosh, B Du… - Earth-Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Sanjiang Tethyan Orogen (SJTO) of the eastern Tethyan tectonic belt in China
records a transition from Late Paleozoic Tethys realm to Cenozoic continental collision …

[HTML][HTML] The formation of Neoarchean continental crust in the south-east Superior Craton by two distinct geodynamic processes

DR Mole, PC Thurston, JH Marsh, RA Stern… - Precambrian …, 2021 - Elsevier
The formation of the continental crust in the early Earth, and the geodynamics that drove it,
are fundamental to understanding the evolution of our planet, but remain intensely debated …

Voluminous continental growth of the Altaids and its control on metallogeny

T Wang, H Huang, J Zhang, C Wang… - National Science …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The Altaids is generally considered to be the largest Phanerozoic accretionary orogen on
Earth, but it is unclear whether it was associated with extensive continental crustal growth …

Mineral system analysis: Quo vadis

SG Hagemann, VA Lisitsin, DL Huston - Ore Geology Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
The concept of a mineral system was first formally introduced in 1994, two decades after the
analogous petroleum system concept had been developed. Mineral systems involve:(1) …

Craton and thick lithosphere margins: The sites of giant mineral deposits and mineral provinces

DI Groves, M Santosh - Gondwana Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Although most economic geology research is concentrated at the deposit or mineral-system
scale for a single well-defined deposit group with a consistent metal association, there are …