Phanerozoic tin and tungsten mineralization—Tectonic controls on the distribution of enriched protoliths and heat sources for crustal melting

RL Romer, U Kroner - Gondwana Research, 2016 - Elsevier
Phanerozoic primary tin and tungsten deposits and lithium–cesium–tantalum (LCT) type
pegmatites define discontinuous belts that reach several thousand kilometers length …

The Palaeozoic geography of Laurentia and western Laurussia: a stable craton with mobile margins

LRM Cocks, TH Torsvik - Earth-Science Reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
The large Palaeozoic continent of Laurentia was largely in North America, but included parts
of modern Europe. It was independent from late Neoproterozoic times at about 570Ma until it …

Continental arc volcanism as the principal driver of icehouse-greenhouse variability

NR McKenzie, BK Horton, SE Loomis, DF Stockli… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Variations in continental volcanic arc emissions have the potential to control atmospheric
carbon dioxide (CO2) levels and climate change on multimillion-year time scales. Here we …

Detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology and Hf isotope geochemistry of Paleozoic and Triassic passive margin strata of western North America

G Gehrels, M Pecha - Geosphere, 2014 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
U-Pb geochronologic and Hf isotopic analyses have been conducted on detrital zircons
extracted from 36 samples of Neoproterozoic through Triassic passive margin strata from …

Crustal structure and tectonic model of the Arctic region

O Petrov, A Morozov, S Shokalsky, S Kashubin… - Earth-Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
We present a new model of the crustal and tectonic structure of the Arctic region north of 60°
N latitude, constrained as a part of the international Atlas of Geological Maps of the …

The tectonic evolution of the Arctic since Pangea breakup: Integrating constraints from surface geology and geophysics with mantle structure

GE Shephard, RD Müller, M Seton - Earth-Science Reviews, 2013 - Elsevier
The tectonic evolution of the circum-Arctic, including the northern Pacific, Siberian and North
American margins, since the Jurassic has been punctuated by the opening and closing of …

A Palaeozoic Northwest Passage: Incursion of Caledonian, Baltican and Siberian terranes into eastern Panthalassa, and the early evolution of the North American …

M Colpron, JL Nelson - Geological Society, London, Special …, 2009 - lyellcollection.org
Palaeozoic to early Mesozoic terranes of the North American Cordillera mostly originated
from three distinct regions in Palaeozoic time: the western peri-Laurentian margin, western …

On the origin of the Amerasia Basin and the High Arctic Large Igneous Province—results of new aeromagnetic data

A Døssing, HR Jackson, J Matzka, I Einarsson… - Earth and Planetary …, 2013 - Elsevier
The history of the 2.5 million km2 Amerasia Basin (sensu lato) is in many ways the least
known in the global tectonic system. Radically different hypotheses proposed to explain its …

Episodicity and the dance of late Mesozoic magmatism and deformation along the northern circum-Pacific margin: North-eastern Russia to the Cordillera

VV Akinin, EL Miller, J Toro, AV Prokopiev… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
New U-Pb geochronology and a large and growing geochemical data base has clarified the
age and composition of the extensive magmatic belts of NE Russia, allowing a better …

Integrated crustal thickness map** and plate reconstructions for the high Arctic

A Alvey, C Gaina, NJ Kusznir, TH Torsvik - Earth and Planetary Science …, 2008 - Elsevier
The plate tectonic history of the Amerasia Basin (High Arctic) and its distribution of oceanic
and continental lithosphere are poorly known. A new method of gravity inversion with an …