In the Southern São Francisco Craton near Itapecerica (Minas Gerais – Brazil) occurs a supracrustal succession of rocks, varying from bottom to top by quartzite, graphite schist, khondalitic paragneiss and banded iron formation whose protoliths are oceanic basin with ages in context Rhyacian-Orosirian orogeny. Amphibolite metaultramafic bodies occur associated this succession. Mineralogical tex...

In the Ordovician limestone of Thorsberg quarry (South Sweden), about 130 meteorites have been found. Among extraterrestrial material, several terrestrial Cr-spinels and zircons found too. particular, in interval 416–447 cm above Arkeologen bed, Cr-spinels, compositionally different from previous studied same sequence, are present. Previous studies on zircon provided depositional ages that rang...

Abstract Metabasic rocks of the ophiolitic sequences Glockner Nappe and Eclogite Zone in south-central Tauern Window, Austria, reveal important insights into rifting spreading Alpine Tethys. U–Pb dating magmatic zircons yields a concordant 157 ± 2 Ma crystallization age for precursor coarse-grained metagabbro from Nappe. The Late Jurassic intrusion is coeval with mafic plutonic activity Western...

In the Cheshmeh-Bid district of Khajeh-Jamali ophiolitic massifs (Southern Iran), mantle peridotites are intruded by abundant pyroxenite dykes. A few these dykes remarkable for occurrence native copper associated with development a metasomatic reaction zone. The progressively reacted, from their margins towards center, an amphibole + antigorite selvage, followed centimeter-thick clinopyroxene a...

the study area is located in southeastern iran, about 110 km southwest of kerman. geologically, the area is composed of ophiolitic rocks, volcanic rocks, intrusive bodies and sedimentary rocks. vein mineralization within andesite, andesitic basalt, andesitic tuffs occurred along the chahar gonbad fault. sulfide mineralization in the ore deposit has taken place as dissemination, veins and veinle...

Abstract New zircon U-Pb geochronology from a peridotite suite near Ranau and the Telupid ophiolite in Sabah, eastern Malaysia, contradict previous studies, which assumed that Sabah mafic-ultramafic rocks are largely ophiolitic Jurassic–Cretaceous age. We show these formed during magmatic episode Miocene (9.2–10.5 Ma), is interpreted to reflect infiltration of melts melt-rock reaction subcontin...

The location of the suture zone between South China Block (SCB) and Indochina (IB) is disputed. Recently, along Song Chay (Chay river) belt, a mélange was proposed as potential SCB IB. However, provenance age poorly known. In order to better constrain elements forming mélange, nine samples detrital material, one orthogneiss were subjected zircon U-Pb Hf isotope analysis. Detrital zircons from s...