Abstract The rare earth elements (REE) are critical raw materials for much of modern technology, particularly renewable energy infrastructure and electric vehicles that vital the transition. Many world’s largest REE deposits occur in alkaline rocks carbonatites, which found intracontinental, rift-related settings, also syn- to post-collisional settings. Post-collisional settings host significan...

Abstract The Tianshan Range–Junggar Basin– Kalamaili Range system represents the southwestern Central Asian Orogenic Belt and is a natural laboratory for studying intracontinental deformation processes. Its current topography product of farfield effects Cenozoic India-Asia collision. However, Mesozoic topographic tectonic evolution Ranges their impacts on Junggar Basin remain enigmatic due to s...

The Atlas-Meseta intracontinental orographic system of Morocco experienced recent, large-scale surface uplift as documented by elevated late Miocene, shallow-water marine deposits exposed in the Middle Atlas Mountains. Anti-Atlas Mountains do not present any stratigraphic records that document regional vertical movements, however, presence a high-standing, erosional surface, and transient state...

• Detrital zircon analysis of Neoproterozoic Dom Feliciano Belt supracrustal rocks. Minimum age constraint for sedimentation into Brusque Complex rift basin at ca. 810 Ma. Mesoproterozoic fractions reveal major African sedimentary protosources. detrital record correlates with Kaoko and Porongos Complex. Data show close proximity between the Luis Alves Congo cratons Rodinia breakup. metasediment...

Abstract We investigate the tectonic evolution of Wetterstein and Mieming mountains in western Northern Calcareous Alps (NCA) European Eastern Alps. In-sequence NW-directed stacking thrust sheets this thin-skinned foreland belt lasted from Hauterivian to Cenomanian. In more internal NCA major E-striking intracontinental transform faults dissected at Albian–Cenomanian boundary that facilitated a...

High- and ultrahigh-pressure rocks occur in the Austroalpine Nappes a ~400 km long belt from Texel Complex west to Sieggraben Unit east. Garnet growth during pressure increase was dated using Lu-Hf chronometry. The results range between c. 100 90 Ma, indicating short-lived period of subduction. Combined with already published data, our estimates metamorphic conditions indicate field gradient in...