Cambrian–Ordovician magmatic flare-up in NE Gondwana: A silicic large igneous province?

W Dan, JB Murphy, GJ Tang, XZ Zhang… - …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The origin of the Cambrian–Ordovician tectono-magmatic events affecting NE Gondwana
and the adjacent peri-Gondwanan terranes (eg, Himalaya, Lhasa, Southern Qiangtang …

The age and origin of the South Mountain Batholith (Nova Scotia, Canada) as constrained by zircon U–Pb geochronology, geochemistry, and O–Hf isotopes

L Bickerton, DJ Kontak, JB Murphy… - Canadian Journal of …, 2022 - cdnsciencepub.com
The South Mountain Batholith (SMB; Nova Scotia, Canada) is the largest composite
batholith exposed in the Appalachians and lies entirely within the most outboard Meguma …

Speculations on the Paleozoic legacy of Gondwana amalgamation

JB Murphy, RD Nance, ST Johnston, JM Casas… - Gondwana …, 2024 - Elsevier
Using Gondwana as an example, we show how the geological record can be interrogated to
detect significant changes in mantle convection patterns at critical junctures in Earth's …

Testing petrogenetic models for contemporaneous mafic and felsic to intermediate magmatism within the “Newer Granite” suite of the Scottish and Irish Caledonides

DB Archibald, JB Murphy, M Fowler, RA Strachan… - 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Granitoid batholiths dominated by felsic to intermediate compositions are commonly
associated with mafic plutons and enclaves; however, the genetic relationship between the …

Discussion of Searle,'Tectonic evolution of the Caledonian orogeny in Scotland: a review based on the timing of magmatism, metamorphism and deformation'

JF Dewey, PD Ryan - Geological Magazine, 2022 - cambridge.org
Searle (2022) argues, based on data from Scotland alone, that the deformation and
metamorphism of the Scottish Highlands is continuously diachronous from the early …

Late Ordovician to Early Devonian tectono-magmatic prequel to the Acadian Orogeny in northeastern North America and the British Isles

P Jutras, J Dostal - Gondwana Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Geochemical data from Katian to earliest Emsian (∼ 453–405 Ma) igneous rocks in
northeastern North America and the British Isles were compiled to identify tectono-magmatic …

A Devonian shoshonitic appinite–granite suite in the North Qinling orogenic belt: Implications for partial melting of a water-fluxed lithospheric mantle in an extensional …

L Zhao, Y Li, H **ang, J Zheng, W **ao… - Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Appinite–granite suites commonly occur in the final stage of collisional orogenic processes,
providing a unique opportunity to reveal the properties of continental lithospheric mantle and …

Logan Medallist 7. Appinite complexes, granitoid batholiths and crustal growth: a conceptual model

JB Murphy, WJ Collins, DB Archibald - Geoscience Canada, 2022 - erudit.org
Appinite bodies are a suite of plutonic rocks, ranging from ultramafic to felsic in composition,
that are characterized by idiomorphic hornblende as the dominant mafic mineral in all …

Conjugate shear model for emplacement of mid-crustal plutons during dextral transpression, southern Nova Scotia, Canada: tectonic and petrological consequences

WJ Collins, JB Murphy - Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2024 - cdnsciencepub.com
The South Mountain Batholith (SMB) is a syn-tectonic composite batholith emplaced in the
upper crust within the Meguma terrane between 380 and 370 Ma during the later stages of …

Investigating assembly timing of Ediacaran Serra dos Órgãos batholith–Hints on prolonged magmatism at Ribeira belt, SE Brazil

CM Fernandes, JC Mendes, PAD Teixeira… - Journal of South …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Pan-African/Brasiliano orogeny, result of the West-Gondwana assembly from
the Neoproterozoic to Ordovician, had produced the Ribeira and Araçuaí belts at the edges …