Destruction of the North China craton in the Mesozoic

FY Wu, JH Yang, YG Xu, SA Wilde… - Annual review of earth …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The North China Craton (NCC) was originally formed by the amalgamation of the eastern
and western blocks along an orogenic belt at∼ 1.9 Ga. After cratonization, the NCC was …

Thinning and destruction of the cratonic lithosphere: A global perspective

FY Wu, YG Xu, RX Zhu, GW Zhang - Science China Earth Sciences, 2014 - Springer
It has been proposed that the North China Craton (NCC) was thinned up to a thickness of>
100 km during the Phanerozoic, and underwent an associated craton destruction. Evidently …

Timing, scale and mechanism of the destruction of the North China Craton

RX Zhu, L Chen, FY Wu, JL Liu - Science China Earth Sciences, 2011 - Springer
Abstract The North China Craton (NCC) is a classical example of ancient destroyed cratons.
Since the initiation of the North China Craton Destruction Project by the National Natural …

The Deccan Volcanic Province (DVP), India: a review: Part 1: Areal extent and distribution, compositional diversity, flow types and sequences, stratigraphic …

P Krishnamurthy - Journal of the Geological Society of India, 2020 - Springer
Abstract The Deccan Volcanic Province (DVP), covering presently an area of 0.5 million km
2, and estimated to be 2–3 times larger during the Upper Cretaceous-Paleocene, is one of …

Kimberlites, flood basalts and mantle plumes: New insights from the Deccan Large Igneous Province

NVC Rao, B Lehmann - Earth-Science Reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
A clear-cut temporal and spatial relationship between small-volume, volatile-rich and highly
potassic continental melt fractions, such as kimberlites and related rocks, and large-volume …

The use of heavy mineral chemistry in reconstructing provenance: A case study from Mesozoic sandstones of Kutch Basin, India

A Chaudhuri, S Banerjee, N Prabhakar… - Geological …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Petrography and geochemistry of the Mesozoic sedimentary rocks of the Kutch Basin in
western India reveal the predominance of felsic source rocks. Single‐grain chemistry of the …

Detrital zircon and monazite track the source of Mesozoic sediments in Kutch to rocks of Late Neoproterozoic and Early Palaeozoic orogenies in northern India

A Chaudhuri, K Das, S Banerjee, ICW Fitzsimons - Gondwana Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Detrital zircon and monazite dating of clastic rocks in the Mesozoic Kutch Basin at the
western continental margin of India reveals predominant sediment derivation from rocks of …

Diversity in the peninsular Indian lithosphere revealed from ambient noise and earthquake tomography

GK Saha, KS Prakasam, SS Rai - Physics of the Earth and Planetary …, 2020 - Elsevier
Significant diversity in the Indian lithosphere is seen in 3-D shear wave velocity images
inverted from the dispersion of group velocities measured from ambient noise and …

Tectonic controls on Ni and Cu contents of primary mantle-derived magmas for the formation of magmatic sulfide deposits

Z Yao, K Qin, JE Mungall - American Mineralogist, 2018 - degruyter.com
We have modeled the genesis of primary mantle-derived magma to explore the controls
exerted on its Ni-Cu ore potential by water content, pressure, and mantle potential …

Imprints of modal metasomatism in the post-Deccan subcontinental lithospheric mantle: petrological evidence from an ultramafic xenolith in an Eocene lamprophyre …

R Pandey, NVC Rao, D Pandit, S Sahoo, P Dhote - 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We report here on the occurrence of an interesting mantle-derived ultramafic xenolith
entrained in an Eocene (c. 55 Ma) lamprophyre dyke from the Dongargaon area of the …