The continental crust is unique to the Earth in the solar system, and controversies remain
regarding its origin, accretion and reworking of continents. The plate tectonics theory has …

Accurate spatial models of tectonic plates and geological terranes are important for
analyzing and interpreting a wide variety of geoscientific data and developing compositional …

A total of 4344 magmatic U-Pb ages in the range 2300 to 800 Ma have been compiled from
the Great Proterozoic Accretionary Orogen along the margin of the Columbia/Nuna …

Multiple models (steady state, episodic, and early growth followed by crustal reworking)
have been postulated to explain the evolution of Earth's continental crust. An independent …

The pre-Mesozoic metamorphic geology of Mexico is summarized in this review through the
integral analysis of 11 deep orogenic systems composed altogether of more than 20 …

Abstract Late Mississippian to middle Permian sediment-dispersal networks of regional to
continental scale in western equatorial Pangea, depicted here in a series of …

Geofluids (2010) 10, 270–292 Abstract Fluid circulation at basement/cover unconformities is
of first importance for metal transfer and especially the formation of Pb–Zn, F, Ba and U …

Arc magmatism at subduction zones (SZs) most voluminously supplies juvenile igneous
material to build rafts of continental and intra-oceanic or island arc (CIA) crust. Return or …

Triassic strata in northeastern Mexico distributed over an area of∼ 120,000 km2 have
received relatively little attention in paleogeographic and tectonic reconstructions of western …

We report the U-Pb age distribution of detrital zircons collected from central and southern
Appalachian foreland basin strata, which record changes of sediment provenance in …