The Sanandaj-Sirjan Zone (W. Iran) was a Jurassic passive continental margin: Evidence from igneous rocks of the Songhor area

F Nouri, H Azizi, RJ Stern, Y Asahara - Lithos, 2023‏ - Elsevier
It is important to understand the Jurassic tectonic setting of SW Eurasia, and the igneous
rocks of the Sanandaj-Sirjan zone in SW Iran provide critical evidence. Bimodal volcanic …

Geochronological results from the Zhela Formation volcanics of the Tethyan Himalaya and their implications for the breakup of eastern Gondwana

J Liang, W Bian, X Jiao, W Peng, J Ma, S Wang… - Scientific Reports, 2023‏ - nature.com
The relationship between the Kerguelen mantle plume and the breakup of eastern
Gondwana is still debated. The new Zircon SHRIMP U–Pb dating of 139.9±4.6 Ma, as well …

The evolution of Kerguelen mantle plume and breakup of eastern Gondwana: New insights from multistage Cretaceous magmatism in the Tethyan Himalaya

Z Zhang, G Li, X He, L Zhang, S Dong, C Qing… - Gondwana …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
The relationship between the breakup of eastern Gondwana and Kerguelen mantle plume
remains extremely controversial. The crucial conundrum is that when and where the …

Mantle source components and magmatic evolution for the comei large Igneous province: evidence from the early Cretaceous Niangzhong mafic magmatism in …

Y Wang, L Zeng, K Hou, L Gao, Q Wang, L Zhao… - Journal of Earth …, 2022‏ - Springer
The Niangzhong diabase dikes, dated at 138.1±0.4 Ma, are located within the outcrop area
of the Comei large igneous province (LIP). These diabase samples can be divided into two …

Magmatic records of Gondwana assembly and break-up in the eastern Himalayan syntaxis, northeast India

G Oinam, AK Singh, A Dutt, S Khogenkumar, M Joshi… - Gondwana …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
The Indian sub-continent was an integral part of the Gondwana supercontinent with multiple
magmatic episodes during the Gondwana assembly and break-up events. However, most of …

Early Cretaceous Greater Kerguelen large igneous province and its plumbing systems: a contemplation on concurrent magmatic records of the eastern Indian Shield …

RK Srivastava - Geological Journal, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
A detailed contemplation is attempted to comprehend the likely connection of a large
number of Early Cretaceous mafic, felsic, alkaline (kimberlite, lamproites, ultramafic …

New scaling model of the spontaneous imbibition behavior of tuffaceous shale: Constraints from the tuff-hosted and organic matter-covered pore system

W Yang, Q Wang, Y Song, Z Jiang, W Meng… - Journal of Natural Gas …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
The volcanogenic tuff layers are widely developed in the organic-rich shale systems of
unconventional oil and gas resources. The tuffaceous shale composed of terrigenous …

Identification of the EMII-type mantle end-member of the Kerguelen mantle plume and its implications for the initial breakup of eastern Gondwana: New constraints …

F Meng, Y Meng, Y Wei - Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2024‏ - Elsevier
The breakup of eastern Gondwana during the Early Cretaceous has been well-documented.
However, the relationship between Cretaceous mafic magma and the Kerguelen mantle …

Sedimentology and provenance of newly identified Upper Cretaceous trench basin strata, Dênggar, southern Tibet: Implications for development of the Eurasian …

DA Orme, AK Laskowski, MF Zilinsky, W Chao… - Basin …, 2021‏ - earthdoc.org
Trench basins preserved along the southern margin of the Lhasa Terrane, Tibet, are
sedimentologic records of convergent margin processes preceding Cenozoic India–Asia …

Early activity of the Kerguelen Mantle plume: geochronology, geochemistry and Sr-Nd-Pb isotopes of mafic dykes and sills from the Tethyan Himalaya

Z Wang, Y Shi, T Yang, JL Anderson… - International Geology …, 2023‏ - Taylor & Francis
The remnant Comei igneous province in SE Tibet has been recognized as a product of early
Kerguelen mantle plume activity. In this paper, we investigate mafic dykes and sills intruded …