The continental crust is the archive of the geological history of the Earth. Only 7% of the crust
is older than 2.5 Ga, and yet significantly more crust was generated before 2.5 Ga than …

This paper presents a review of available petrological, geochonological and geochemical
data for late Mesozoic to Recent igneous rocks in the South China Sea (SCS) and adjacent …

Granitoids are a major component of the continental crust. They play a pivotal role in its
evolution, either by adding new material (continental growth), or by reworking older …

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Geochemical Data: Evaluation, Presentation, Interpretation Page 3 Other titles in the series An …

At low temperatures (< 750 C at moderate to high crustal pressures), the production of
sufficient melt to reach the melt connectivity transition (∼ 7 vol%), enabling melt drainage …

Granite petrogenesis is associated with the formation and evolution of continental crust
along convergent plate boundaries. While magmatic processes such as partial melting and …

Granites and related volcanic rocks of the Lachlan Fold Belt can be grouped into suites
using chemical and petrographic data. The distinctive characteristics of suites reflect source …

S-type granites always contain more Al than the amounts of Na, Ca and K in the rock
required to form feldspars, primarily owing to their derivation from source components that …

The concept of I‐and S‐type granites was introduced in 1974 to account for the observation
that, apart from the most felsic rocks, the granites in the Lachlan Fold Belt have properties …

Abstract 143 Nd/144 Nd ratios, and Sm and Nd abundances, are reported for particulates
from major and minor rivers of the Earth, continental sediments, and aeolian dusts collected …