[1] Low-angle subduction of oceanic lithosphere may be an important process in modifying continental lithosphere. A classic example is the underthrusting of the Farallon plate beneath North America during the Laramide orogeny. To assess the relevance of this process to the evolution and composition of continental lithosphere, the mantle stratigraphy beneath the Mojave Desert was constrained usi...

The zircon record of complex high-grade gneiss terrains is key to interpreting their tectonothermal evolution. Typically, such studies focus on zircon-rich, felsic rocks, which commonly have a complicated (partial melting, inheritance, partial dissolution, and reprecipitation) record. Here we show that metamorphosed mafic rocks retained melts (i.e. in situ leucosomes) provide the evolution crus...

Major, minor, and trace element geochemistry as well iron oxidation state isotopes were investigated in serpentinites olivine-talc fels present along a metamorphic gradient the Bergell contact aureole (Central European Alps) to evaluate mobility during serpentine. This is an ideal target study dehydration of mantle rocks due increase temperature from greenschist facies conditions (350°C) amphib...

The Central Asian Orogenic Belt, or Altaids, is an amalgamation of volcanic arcs and microcontinent blocks that records a complex late Precambrian–Mesozoic accretionary history. Although microcontinents cored by Precambrian basement are proposed to play an integral role in the accretion process, a lack of isotopic data hampers volume estimates of newly produced arc-derived versus old-cratonic c...

Mehredjan bentonite deposit is located ~33 km southeast of Khoor in Isfehan province. It includes 15 discrete outcrops and occurs as layered and massive forms within a volcano-clastic sequence. Bentonitization process was accompanied with development of minerals such as montmorillonite, quartz, cristobalite, calcite, kaolinite, halite, albite, orthoclase, and muscovite. The collected field and ...

The Pandian deposit is a newly discovered contact metasomatic skarn magnetite found in the Cainozoic super-thick overburden on northwest margin of Luxi Uplift (LXU). Presently, horizontal scale delineated by potential field (gravity and magnetic method) has shown giant for ore deposits, mapping ore-controlling structures vertical becomes primary task metallogenic prediction. In our study, wide-...

Abstract Our understanding of the nature crustal formation in Eoarchean is limited by scarcity and poor preservation oldest rocks variable imperfect protolith magmatic signatures. These limitations hamper our ability to place quantitative constraints on thermomechanical models for early genesis hence operative geodynamic regimes at that time. The recently discovered ca. 3.75 Ga Ukaliq supracrus...