Abstract The South China Craton consists of the Yangtze and Cathaysia blocks that were
welded together along the Jiangnan Fold Belt in the Neoproterozoic. The Neoproterozoic …

Arc-basaltic melts of typical hydration state (≥ 2 wt% H 2 O) are buoyant relative to all
common crustal igneous rock types and may pass adiabatically from a mantle source …

Much of the current volume of Earth's continental crust had formed by the end of the
Archaean eon (2.5 billion years ago), through melting of hydrated basaltic rocks at depths of …

The nine editions of Stable Isotope Geochemistry have appeared over a time span of nearly
50 years. The first edition (1973) appeared as a slim book of 135 pages. Due to the rapid …

New geochemical data for Pleistocene magmatic rocks from the Surigao peninsula, eastern
Mindanao, the Philippines, demonstrate typical adakitic traits, including elevation of Sr/Y and …

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 …

Abstract We report Neoproterozoic (ca. 785-780 Ma) granites from the western margin of the
Yangtze Block that are characterised by magmatic zircons with δ 18 O values as low as …

Convergent continental margins are the major sites for the formation, differentiation,
preservation, and destruction of continental crust. This article focuses on the Mesozoic …

Subduction erosion occurs at all convergent plate boundaries, even if they are also
accretionary margins. Frontal subduction erosion results from a combination of erosion and …

It has previously been postulated that the Earth's hydrous mantle transition zone may play a
key role in intraplate magmatism, but no confirmatory evidence has been reported. Here we …