The acquisition of the timing and duration metamorphic mineral growth is key to understanding evolution belts. Garnet Lu–Hf geochronology becoming increasingly powerful in this aspect. It believed that garnet radiometric systems are preserved during low-temperature metamorphism. However, hypothesis has not been systematically tested. To examine systematics garnets metamorphism, we conducted dat...

The North Tianshan Belt (NTB) formed by the subduction and accretion of Junggar Ocean is a key area for reconstructing Paleozoic tectonic evolution southern Central Asian Orogenic (CAOB). Despite numerous studies, interpretation late NTB meets no consensus yet. We conducted field investigations LA-ICP-MS zircon U-Pb dating on metamorphic rocks from Julideneng Metamorphic Complex (JMC) in Harlik...

Rare-element granites and pegmatites represent important sources of raw materials for “clean, green high technologies”, such as lithium tantalum, example. However, mechanisms rare-element pegmatite’s origin are still far from being fully understood. Several pegmatite fields a granite known in the Variscan realms located Iberia (Spain Portugal), enhancing interest this area studying formation th...

High-quality seismic data recorded during the 1999 Taiwan Chi-Chi earthquake (Mw=7.6) show that a smallscale orogenic process of both mountain-building and crust-thickening was simultaneously accomplished along one set of crustal-scale conjugated faults. Mountain-building near the surface was primarily produced by the main shock along an eastward low-angle thrust fault in the upper crust. In th...

A new method for the fabrication of microscale features in thermoplastic substrates is presented. Unlike traditional thermoplastic microfabrication techniques, in which bulk polymer is displaced from the substrate by machining or embossing, a unique process termed orogenic microfabrication has been developed in which selected regions of a thermoplastic surface are raised from the substrate by a...