Secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) is a versatile technique for measuring the
chemical and isotopic composition of solid materials on a scale of a few microns. A beam of …

Type and amount of sediment generation are intimately connected to tectonic and climatic
processes active at the earth's surface today as well as throughout the geologic past. Detrital …

Baddeleyite has long been recognized as one of the most important U-bearing minerals for
dating silica undersaturated igneous rocks. Age determination of baddeleyite calls for …

The eastern Gawler craton hosts Australia's premier uranium-bearing iron oxide copper-gold
(IOCG) belt, the> 500-km-long Olympic Cu-Au-(U) province. In addition to the Olympic Dam …

The Killingworth dome of south-central Connecticut occurs at the southern end of the
Bronson Hill belt. It is composed of tonalitic and trondhjemitic orthogneisses (Killingworth …

The Xihuashan tungsten deposit, located in the Nanling tungstentin province, is renowned
for being one of the largest and the earliest exploited deposits of tungsten worldwide. It is a …

Igneous complexes with a wide variety of lithologies in continental magmatic arcs provide a
critical insight into the composition and formation mechanism of continental crust. We report …

Abstract The Pamir Plateau, a result of the India‐Asia collision, contains extensive
exposures of Cenozoic middle to lower crust in domes exhumed by north‐south crustal …

U–Pb geochronology using laser ablation ICP–MS is a fairly recently introduced technique
and thus far its development has centred on zircon dating. Using titanite as an example, the …

Multiple high-grade crystalline domes across the Pamir contain Barrovian facies-series
metapelites with peak metamorphic assemblages of garnet+ kyanite±staurolite+ biotite+ …