We argue that the production of mantle-derived or juvenile continental crust during the
accretionary history of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB) has been grossly …

Detrital zircon geochronology is rapidly develo** into an essential tool in Earth science
research because of the widespread occurrence of zircon in sedimentary systems; the wide …

The effect of three different cone combinations on the performance of laser ablation MC-ICP-
MS (Neptune plus) for the in situ Hf isotope analysis of zircon were investigated. The signal …

Detrital zircon geochronology is rapidly evolving into a very powerful tool for determining the
provenance and maximum depositional age of clastic strata. This rapid evolution is being …

Zircon and baddeleyite U–Pb geochronological dating is widely used in solid Earth sciences
and the advent of rapid in-situ methods of analysis, such SIMS and ICP-MS, has re …

During the Mesozoic–Cenozoic, northward Neotethyan subduction and subsequent India–
Asia collision gave rise to the extensive Transhimalayan magmatism that stretches from …

Rutile is the most common naturally occurring titanium dioxide polymorph and is widely
distributed as an accessory mineral in metamorphic rocks ranging from greenschist to …

Abstract The evolution of South China involved accretion-collision of multiple terranes from
the Proterozoic to the Mesozoic. Zircon U-Pb ages, Hf data, and structural data indicate that …

We describe an in situ method for simultaneous measurement of U–Pb–Hf isotopes and
trace element compositions of zircons using a quadrupole and multiple-collector inductively …

The strong resilience of the mineral zircon and its ability to host a wealth of isotopic
information make it the best deep-time archive of Earth's continental crust. Zircon is found in …