The generation, preservation and destruction of continental crust on Earth is of wide interest
in understanding the formation of continents, cratons and supercontinents as well as related …

Archean crust–mantle interaction processes provide keys to understanding crustal evolution
in the Early Earth. The North China Craton (NCC) represents a natural laboratory to evaluate …

A multidisciplinary study involving field, petrographic, SHRIMP U–Pb zircon/titanite ages,
whole rock geochemical and Nd–Sr isotope data is presented for the Peninsular Gneisses …

Combined whole-rock, U–Pb zircon and monazite dating, in situ zircon (MC)-SF-ICP-MS Lu–
Hf-isotope data are reported for more than 20 Archaean granitoid samples to constrain …

Abstract The Madurai Block in southern India is a composite collage of at least three sub-
blocks, with Neoarchean–Paleoproterozoic segments in the north and central domains, and …

The widely distributed high-grade gneisses in the East Kunlun Orogenic Belt (EKOB) are
keys to understand the Precambrian tectonic evolution of the Northern Tibetan Plateau. In …

Sedimentary rocks cover∼ 73% of the Earth's surface and metamorphic rocks account for
approximately 91% of the crust by volume. Understanding the average behavior and …

Lying to the south of the Dharwar Craton, the expansive granulite massif, known as the
Granulite Terrane of South India, preserves protracted history of the earth from ca. 3400–500 …

In this contribution we present field relations, U-Pb zircon geochronology, in-situ Lu-Hf
isotopes, bulk-rock Sm-Nd isotopes and geochemistry of the tonalite-trondhjemite …

Scattered TDM2 (3.8–3.2 Ga) for 3.28–2.99 Ga zircons from the Proterozoic Delhi
Supergroup in northwestern India provide evidence for generation of juvenile crust and …