AbstractThe Steptoean Positive Carbon Isotope Excursion (SPICE) event at ca. 497–494 Ma was a major carbon-cycle perturbation of the late Cambrian that coincided with rapid diversity changes among trilobites. Several scenarios (e.g., climatic/oceanic c…
AbstractThe Mangling intrusive complex has different dioritic to granitic phases and is spatially and temporally related to molybdenum deposits in the Qinling Orogen. Zircon U-Pb dating of the Mangling intrusive complex indicates that dioritic rocks (b…
AbstractArc magmatism can provide crucial information about crustal recycling and growth in subduction zones. However, the crustal material transfer process and mechanism from subducting slab to overlying mantle wedge are controversial. Here, we presen…
AbstractUse of balanced cross-section methods, which assume length and area conservation in two dimensions, to quantitatively analyze fold-and-thrust belts is vital in structural analyses. However, layer-parallel shortening is beyond this assumption an…
AbstractThe distribution of Oligo–Miocene magmatic rocks from southern Tibet in space and time yields critical information on the geometry and deformation of the subducted Indian lithosphere which impacts on plateau growth following the India and Euras…
AbstractOver the past decades, abundant and well-preserved vertebrate fossils, known as the Urho Pterosaur Fauna, have been recovered from the Lower Cretaceous Tugulu Group in Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, NW China. Excavated materials belong to pterosaur, …
AbstractMetamorphic rocks encode invaluable information on the burial and exhumation history of rocks that is critical to our understanding of orogens. In this work, zircon U–Pb dating, pseudosection, and garnet zoning modeling were performed on sample…
AbstractHydrothermal mineralization along the circum-Pacific continental margin is genetically linked to the motions of the Pacific Plate. Compiled geochronological results of ore deposits, coupled with the newly reconstructed geometry of the late Earl…
AbstractThe relative roles of tectonics and climate change in global and regional desertification are not well constrained. Previous studies have emphasized the role played by climate change as a dominant cause of southeastern (SE) Asia desertification…
AbstractGrowth of the Tibetan Plateau, Earth’s broadest and highest elevation collisional system, shapes orographic barriers, reorganizes drainage networks, and influences surface erosion and sediment delivery, whose changes in space and provenance fee…