Sublithospheric Diamonds: Plate Tectonics from Earth's Deepest Mantle Samples

SB Shirey, DG Pearson, T Stachel… - Annual Review of Earth …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Sublithospheric diamonds and the inclusions they may carry crystallize in the
asthenosphere, transition zone, or uppermost lower mantle (from 300 to∼ 800 km), and are …

Improving Earth science communication and accessibility with data sonification

M Russo, TM Gernon, A Santaguida… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
Sonification uses non-speech audio to convey complex data patterns in both space and
time, overcoming visual and language barriers to science communication. Data sonification …

Solid Earth forcing of Mesozoic oceanic anoxic events

TM Gernon, BJW Mills, TK Hincks, AS Merdith… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Oceanic anoxic events are geologically abrupt phases of extreme oxygen depletion in the
oceans that disrupted marine ecosystems and brought about evolutionary turnover. Typically …

Emplacement of the Argyle diamond deposit into an ancient rift zone triggered by supercontinent breakup

HKH Olierook, D Fougerouse, LS Doucet, Y Liu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Argyle is the world's largest source of natural diamonds, yet one of only a few economic
deposits hosted in a Paleoproterozoic orogen. The geodynamic triggers responsible for its …

Coevolution of craton margins and interiors during continental break-up

TM Gernon, TK Hincks, S Brune, J Braun, SM Jones… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Many cratonic continental fragments dispersed during the rifting and break-up of Gondwana
are bound by steep topographic landforms known as 'great escarpments',,–, which rim …

The influence of lithospheric inheritance and Cenozoic magmatism on Phanerozoic rock cooling in the São Francisco Craton and adjacent orogens

E do Amaral Santos, AR Jelinek, FA Genezine… - Gondwana …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The South American Platform encompasses the São Francisco Craton (SFC) and
the Araçuaí-Ribeira orogenic system (AROS) located in the eastern Brazil. These geologic …

Cratonization and a journey of healing: From weakness to strength

CT Lee, EJ Chin - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2023 - Elsevier
The mid-Archean to mid-Proterozoic appears to have favored the formation of cratons, stable
crustal shields underlain by unusually thick and cold mantle roots. Most of these cratons and …

[HTML][HTML] Strength of continental lithosphere governed by the time since the last orogeny

Z Lu, P Audet, J Li, T Zhang, CF Li - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2024 - Elsevier
Earth's tectonic history is punctuated by several cycles of supercontinent assembly and
breakup that profoundly influenced the lithospheric structure; however, the roles of the …

Continental Thermal Blanketing Explains the Compositional Dichotomy of the Diffuse Basaltic Province Across Central‐Eastern Asia

HK Dai, JP Zheng, Q Xiong, WL Griffin… - Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A diffuse magmatic province covering central‐eastern Asia continent displays a
compositional transition at 120–100 Ma and probably reflects melting initiation in isotopically …

Do geological records correlate with the supercontinent cycle?

A Broussolle - Gondwana Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Whether the supercontinent cycle (Sc) is the major process driving plate tectonics evolution
has not been purposely investigated. If true, it would result in more geological records …