The history of the South China Craton and the constituent Yangtze and Cathaysia blocks are
directly linked to Earth's Phanerozoic and Precambrian record of supercontinent assembly …

The origin of the Antarctic continent can be traced to a relatively small late Archaean cratonic
nucleus centred on the Terre Adélie regions of East Antarctica and the Gawler Craton region …

Sedimentary mineral assemblages commonly contain detrital zircon crystals as part of the
heavy-mineral fraction. Age spectra determined by U-Pb isotopic analysis of single zircon …

This paper reports in situ U–Pb ages and Hf isotopic data on detrital zircons from Paleozoic
to Late Mesozoic strata in the **shan area near Bei**g that provide important constraints on …

The development of improved techniques for the in situ analysis of U–Pb, Lu–Hf and O
isotopes and of trace element contents has revolutionized approaches to modeling the …

Glacial deposits of Sturtian and Marinoan age occur in the well-studied Neoproterozoic
successions of northern Namibia, South Australia, and northwestern Canada. In all three …

It is thought that continental crust existed as early as 150 million years after planetary
accretion, but assessing the rates and processes of subsequent crustal growth requires …

The trace element signature of Earth's continental crust resembles that of arc lavas, but the
continents may have formed during ancient igneous pulses that are hard to reconcile with …

The Tarim Block is an important tectonic unit to understand the Proterozoic tectonic
framework of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt and the supercontinent Rodinia. The granitic …

Secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) is a versatile technique for measuring the
chemical and isotopic composition of solid materials on a scale of a few microns. A beam of …