The Pacific margin of East Antarctica records a long tectonic history of crustal growth and breakup, culminating in the early Paleozoic Ross Orogeny associated with Gondwanaland amalgamation. Periods of older tectonism have been proposed (e.g. Precambrian Nimrod and Beardmore Orogenies), but the veracity of these events is difficult to document because of poor petrologic preservation, geochrono...

The Gangdese magmatic rocks of the southern Lhasa terrane, are generally thought to be an important window witness formation and evolution Neo-Tethys oceanic opening, subduction, closure, India-Eurasian continental collision. We investigated a new occurrence granodiorite in Nuocang district western Gangdese, conducted series analyses on their petrology, chronology, geochemistry. granodiorites h...

Zircons in a single 250-pound block of Precambrian Johnny Lyon granodiorite from the Dragoon Quadrangle in Cochise County, Arizona, have been concentrated with special attention to yield and nature of impurities. Morphology, zoning, color, inclusions, size distribution, radioactivity, refractive indexes, cell dimensions, and other properties have been compared with the isotopic properties in th...

A method of preparing grid deviation maps for the representation of the areal composition variations in granitic bodies is described. A comparative study of this method and the trend surface method by using the data of forty-five modal analyses of Bahalda hornblende granodiorite indicates greater effectiveness of the former in several respects. THE point count method of modal analysis has made ...

Within two hours after discharge began, for a production test in 1989 of well ZCQ-4, pressure variations changed from approximately sinusoidal to a cycle of sudden and complex peak discharge pressures, to 9 bar, separated by irregular pressure declines to 5 bar. Initial cycle periods of 42 minutes evolved to 150 minutes by day 20 of continuous testing, when three of four surge peaks were well s...

In the design and stability of thermal engineering applications, a thorough understanding evolution damage in rock following high-temperature treatments is crucial. Hence, this study investigates influence high temperatures on Egyptian granodiorite properties, given its widespread use as ornamental stones aggregate material for roadways. Temperature effects up to 800 °C physical mechanical resp...

The Qin-Hang Metallogenic Belt (QHMB), an important metallogenic belt in South China, hosts Cu and W–Sn polymetallic deposits. Tongshanling ore field the QHMB is characterized by coexistence of Cu- W-bearing deposits, which are related to granodiorite granite porphyry. This study examined whole-rock geochemistry, geochronology, Sr–Nd–Hf isotopes determine genetic relationship between diverse or...