The architecture, chemistry, and evolution of continental magmatic arcs

MN Ducea, JB Saleeby… - Annual Review of Earth …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Continental magmatic arcs form above subduction zones where the upper plate is
continental lithosphere and/or accreted transitional lithosphere. The best-studied examples …

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 …

Anatomy of a subduction complex: Architecture of the Franciscan Complex, California, at multiple length and time scales

J Wakabayashi - International Geology Review, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The Franciscan Complex of California records over 150 million years of continuous E-
dipping subduction that terminated with conversion to a dextral transform plate boundary …

High-volume magmatic events in subduction systems

MN Ducea, SR Paterson, PG DeCelles - Elements, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The world's biggest Phanerozoic magmatic arcs formed above subduction zones and
comprise the products of continuous magma emplacement into the crust over periods of up …

Archean dome-and-basin style structures form during growth and death of intraoceanic and continental margin arcs in accretionary orogens

T Kusky, BF Windley, A Polat, L Wang, W Ning… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Determining whether plate tectonics or some other mode of planetary dynamics operated in
the early Archean is one of the most contentious and debated areas of Earth Sciences today …

Detrital zircon provenance of the Late Cretaceous–Eocene California forearc: Influence of Laramide low-angle subduction on sediment dispersal and paleogeography

GR Sharman, SA Graham, M Grove… - …, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract Upper Cretaceous–Eocene forearc strata deposited along the California continental
margin record a complex history of plate convergence that shaped the tectonic development …

[PDF][PDF] On the importance of crystallization-differentiation for the generation of SiO2-rich melts and the compositional build-up of arc (and continental) crust

O Jagoutz, B Klein - American Journal of Science, 2018 - ajsonline.org
In this paper we review processes responsible for the formation of granites in subduction
systems. While there is robust evidence that strongly peraluminous, so-called S-type …

Application of detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology to surface and subsurface correlations of provenance, paleodrainage, and tectonics of the Middle Magdalena Valley …

BK Horton, VJ Anderson, V Caballero… - …, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology has been used extensively to develop provenance
histories for surface outcrops of key stratigraphic localities within sedimentary basins …

Formation and composition of the Late Cretaceous Gangdese arc lower crust in southern Tibet

L Guo, O Jagoutz, WJ Shinevar, HF Zhang - Contributions to Mineralogy …, 2020 - Springer
Arc lower crust plays a critical role in processing mantle-derived basaltic melts into the
intermediate continental crust, yet can only be studied indirectly or in exposed arc sections …

Imaging a magma plumbing system from MASH zone to magma reservoir

JR Delph, KM Ward, G Zandt, MN Ducea… - Earth and Planetary …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Puna Plateau of the Central Andes is a well-suited location to investigate the
processes associated with the tectono-magmatic development of a Cordilleran system …