AbstractAs the need for a well-trained science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce continuously grows, the need for science majors—including geoscience majors—is ever increasing. Despite this, low numbers of majors across geoscie…
AbstractWidespread crust-derived granitoids in North China provide evidence of Mesozoic lithospheric thinning and destruction of the North China Craton. However, the link between lower crust and lithospheric mantle reactivation remains poorly understoo…
AbstractThe crustal thickening process is the key to understanding global tectonic evolution and climatic patterns. The Sr/Y, (La/Yb)N ratios of granitoids can be used to quantitatively estimate crustal thickness and reconstruct the crustal thickening …
AbstractAn early Paleozoic eclogite belt extends discontinuously for 500 km in the East Kunlun Orogen, northwestern China, which provides insight into the evolution of the Proto-Tethys Ocean. However, the nature and age of the eclogite protoliths and s…
AbstractThe nature and tectonic evolution of the Bangong–Nujiang Tethyan Ocean remain unresolved, which seriously restricts our understanding of the role of this ocean in the Tethys tectonic domain and hinders in-depth study of the geodynamics of the T…
AbstractThe late Mesozoic destruction of the eastern North China Craton (NCC) resulted from intense crust-mantle interaction, culminating in the formation of world-class gold deposits in the Jiaodong Peninsula at ca. 120 Ma. We present zircon U-Pb geoc…
AbstractThe late Mesozoic tectonic evolution of the eastern North China craton was intimately related with the subduction of the paleo-Pacific plate. This study sheds light on Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous basin-mountain coupling during paleo-Pacific …
AbstractCopper deposits hosted by volcanic rocks can have different genetic types. Many copper vein deposits at the margin of the Cenozoic Lanping-Simao foreland fold-thrust belt in southwest China are controlled by thrust faults and hosted by Triassic…
AbstractA combined zircon U-Pb, garnet-based mineral–whole-rock Sm-Nd, and hornblende/biotite 40Ar/39Ar geochronological study was conducted on polymetamorphic granulite-facies rocks from the Prydz Belt and adjacent Vestfold Block in East Antarctica. Z…
AbstractTerrestrial strata of the Judith River–Belly River wedge, widely exposed in the plains of north-central Montana, southern Alberta, and southwestern Saskatchewan, were pivotal in early stratigraphic investigations of the Western Interior of Nort…