Continental crustal growth processes recorded in the Gangdese Batholith, southern Tibet

DC Zhu, Q Wang, RF Weinberg… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The continental crust in the overriding plate of the India-Asia collision zone in southern Tibet
is characterized by an overthickened layer of felsic composition with an underlying granulite …

[HTML][HTML] Deep entrapment of buoyant magmas by orogenic tectonic stress: Its role in producing continental crust, adakites, and porphyry copper deposits

RR Loucks - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Arc-basaltic melts of typical hydration state (≥ 2 wt% H 2 O) are buoyant relative to all
common crustal igneous rock types and may pass adiabatically from a mantle source …

Growth of continental crust in intra-oceanic and continental-margin arc systems: Analogs for Archean systems

T Kusky, L Wang - Science China Earth Sciences, 2022 - Springer
Earth's continental crust has grown and been recycled throughout geologic history along
convergent plate margins. The main locus of continental crustal growth is in intra-oceanic …

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 …

Chemical mohometry: Assessing crustal thickness of ancient orogens using geochemical and isotopic data

P Luffi, MN Ducea - Reviews of Geophysics, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Convergent plate boundaries are key sites for continental crustal formation and recycling.
Quantifying the evolution of crustal thickness and paleoelevation along ancient convergent …

Cenozoic porphyry and other hydrothermal ore deposits along the South Caucasus-West Iranian tectono-magmatic belt: a critical reappraisal of the controlling factors

A Rabiee, F Rossetti, F Lucci, M Lustrino - Lithos, 2022 - Elsevier
In this contribution, we investigate the space and time distribution of the Cenozoic
magmatism and the associated porphyry Cu-Mo±Au and other hydrothermal (mostly …

The temporal distribution of Earth's supermountains and their potential link to the rise of atmospheric oxygen and biological evolution

Z Zhu, IH Campbell, CM Allen, JJ Brocks… - Earth and Planetary …, 2022 - Elsevier
We use the distribution of low-Lu and low-Lu/Dy zircons, derived from the eroded roots of
mountains, where trace amounts of zircon compete with abundant garnets for heavy rare …

Temporal changes in subduction-to collision-related magmatism in the Neotethyan orogen: The Southeast Iran example

HS Moghadam, QL Li, WL Griffin, RJ Stern… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Continental-arc igneous rock compositions change in response to the transition from
subduction to collision and these changes can reveal how the crust, lithosphere and magma …

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 …

Wet calc-alkaline magmatic fractionation in the middle–upper crustal sections of the continental arc: Insights from the Neoproterozoic Nanba intrusive complex …

Y Zhu, S Lai, W Xie, J Qin, R Zhu, S Zhao, M Liu… - …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Elucidating the petrological and geochemical characteristics of continental arc crustal
fragments can provide unique insights into the magmatic evolutional path and …