The causes of continental arc flare ups and drivers of episodic magmatic activity in Cordilleran orogenic systems

JB Chapman, JE Shields, MN Ducea, SR Paterson… - Lithos, 2021 - Elsevier
Continental arcs in Cordilleran orogenic systems display episodic changes in magma
production rate, alternating between flare ups (70–90 km 3 km− 1 Myr− 1) and lulls (< 20 km …

Arclogites and their role in continental evolution; part 2: relationship to batholiths and volcanoes, density and foundering, remelting and long-term storage in the …

MN Ducea, AD Chapman, E Bowman, C Balica - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Arclogites are eclogite-like rocks formed magmatically as ultramafic residues and cumulates
in the roots of thick arcs (Ducea et al., 2021 companion paper). They are inferred to be …

Provenance and source-to-sink of lower-middle Jurassic sediments from Hinterland mounts to NW-Gondwana hyper-extended passive margin (Prerif sub-domain …

H Kairouani, MN Zaghloul, A Abbassi… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2023 - Elsevier
The present work deals with the provenance of lower-middle Jurassic successions
belonging to the External Prerif Foreland basin, which remains till now misunderstood and …

Arc tempos of the Gangdese batholith, southern Tibet

X Ma, S Attia, T Cawood, W Cao, Z Xu, H Li - Journal of Geodynamics, 2022 - Elsevier
The character of arcs varies over time with significant temporal fluctuations in the quantity
and spatiotemporal patterns of magmatism. However, the driving mechanisms for this …

Hemispheric geochemical dichotomy of the mantle is a legacy of austral supercontinent assembly and onset of deep continental crust subduction

MG Jackson, FA Macdonald - AGU Advances, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Oceanic hotspots with extreme enriched mantle radiogenic isotopic signatures—including
low 143Nd/144Nd indicative of subducted continental crust—are linked to plume conduits …

The role of V-shaped oceans and ribbon continents in the Brasiliano/PanAfrican assembly of western Gondwana

FA Caxito, FF Alkmim - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Western Gondwana amalgamated by collision of continental blocks that did not form prior
conjugated margins (extroversion), and by typical Wilson cycles, when continental blocks …

Zircon U–Pb geochronology and Sm–Nd and Rb–Sr isotope systematics of Neoproterozoic granitoïds from Bou Azzer (Anti-Atlas-Morocco): the obduction trigger of the …

M Ikenne, M Souhassou, B Cousens, P Montero… - Journal of African Earth …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study presents new U–Pb zircon ages for the Neoproterozoic granitoids of the Bou
Azzer inlier at the central part of the Anti-Atlas chain (Morocco), in the northwestern edge of …

Neoproterozoic arc-magmatism of the Silet Terrane, Western Hoggar (Algeria), new constraints from zircon U-Pb-Hf isotope analyses and whole rock geochemistry

N Berrahmane, EH Fettous, A Bendaoud… - Gondwana …, 2025 - Elsevier
This study presents results of zircon U-Pb-Hf isotope analyses and whole-rock geochemistry
applied to magmatic rocks of the Silet terrane in the Western Hoggar, forming a part of the …

Prolonged magmatism and growth of the Iran-Anatolia Cadomian continental arc segment in Northern Gondwana

HS Moghadam, QL Li, WL Griffin, RJ Stern, JF Santos… - Lithos, 2021 - Elsevier
Much of the crust of Iran and Anatolia, including their oldest exposed rocks, formed during
an episode of intense convergent margin (arc) magmatism as a result of subduction of …

Ultramafic-hosted volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits: an overlooked sub-class of VMS deposit forming in complex tectonic environments

CGC Patten, R Coltat, M Junge, A Peillod, M Ulrich… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Ongoing seafloor exploration highlights that ultramafic-hosted seafloor massive sulfide
deposits (UM-SMS) are ubiquitous along slow to ultra-slow spreading ridges. These …