Late Carboniferous collision between the Tarim and Kazakhstan–Yili terranes in the western segment of the South Tian Shan Orogen, Central Asia, and implications …

BF Han, GQ He, XC Wang, ZJ Guo - Earth-Science Reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
The Tian Shan of Central Asia is located in the southwestern part of the Central Asian
Orogenic Belt (CAOB, also known as the Central Asian Orogenic System or CAOS) …

Earth's heterogeneous mantle: A product of convection-driven interaction between crust and mantle

A Stracke - Chemical Geology, 2012 - Elsevier
Ubiquitous heterogeneity in the Earth's mantle has been documented by numerous
chemical and isotopic analyses of oceanic basalts. Despite the ever-increasing amount of …

Gangdese magmatism in southern Tibet and India–Asia convergence since 120 Ma

DC Zhu, Q Wang, SL Chung, PA Cawood… - Geological Society …, 2019 - lyellcollection.org
A compilation of 290 zircon U–Pb ages of intrusive rocks indicates that the Gangdese
Batholith in southern Tibet was emplaced from c. 210 Ma to c. 10 Ma. Two intense magmatic …

Geochronology of the Mesozoic volcanic rocks in the Great **ng'an Range, northeastern China: implications for subduction-induced delamination

JH Zhang, S Gao, WC Ge, FY Wu, JH Yang, SA Wilde… - Chemical …, 2010 - Elsevier
Mesozoic volcanic rocks and granitoids are widespread in the Great **ng'an Range, which
is part of a large igneous province in the eastern China. However, the ages of the volcanic …

[HTML][HTML] Temporal–spatial distribution and tectonic setting of porphyry copper deposits in Iran: constraints from zircon U–Pb and molybdenite Re–Os geochronology

M Aghazadeh, Z Hou, Z Badrzadeh, L Zhou - Ore geology reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
Porphyry copper deposits (PCDs) in Iran are dominantly distributed in Arasbaran (NW Iran),
the middle segment of the Urumieh–Dokhtar Magmatic Arc (UDMA), and Kerman (central SE …

Early Cretaceous adakitic granites in the Northern Dabie Complex, central China: implications for partial melting and delamination of thickened lower crust

Q Wang, DA Wyman, J Xu, P Jian, Z Zhao, C Li… - … et cosmochimica acta, 2007 - Elsevier
To date, few adakitic rocks have been reported in direct association with contemporary intra-
continental extensional structures, which has cast doubt on genetic models involving partial …

The circum-Mediterranean anorogenic Cenozoic igneous province

M Lustrino, M Wilson - Earth-Science Reviews, 2007 - Elsevier
During the Cenozoic widespread anorogenic magmatism, unrelated to recent supra-
subduction zone modification of its mantle source, developed within the Mediterranean and …

Recycling deep cratonic lithosphere and generation of intraplate magmatism in the North China Craton

S Gao, RL Rudnick, WL Xu, HL Yuan, YS Liu… - Earth and Planetary …, 2008 - Elsevier
Early Cretaceous alkaline picrites and high-magnesium basalts from the North China craton
provide evidence for recycling of continental lithosphere by density foundering. Both the …

Geochemical contrasts between early Cretaceous ore-bearing and ore-barren high-Mg adakites in central-eastern China: implications for petrogenesis and Cu–Au …

SA Liu, S Li, Y He, F Huang - Geochimica et cosmochimica acta, 2010 - Elsevier
Adakites are commonly associated with porphyry Cu–Au ore deposits worldwide. Two
groups of early Cretaceous adakites occur widely in central-eastern China but their …

[HTML][HTML] Ultramafic geoecosystems as a natural source of Ni, Cr, and Co to the environment: A review

J Kierczak, A Pietranik, A Pędziwiatr - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Ultramafic soils are in equal parts fascinating and dangerous. Developed on rocks derived
predominately from the Earth's mantle and metamorphosed at the ocean floors, ultramafic …