AbstractBasins within cratonic environments offer valuable insights into the fragmentation, dispersion, and agglutination of the lithosphere within supercontinents. The southern São Francisco Craton is home to sedimentary basins that formed in both int…
AbstractThe large-scale salt lakes widely distributed in the Tibetan Plateau provide unique and potential resources for lithium (Li) and boron (B). The concentration and characteristics of elements in these salt lakes resemble those found in geothermal…
AbstractThe composition of Archean granitoid rocks changed from predominantly tonalite-trondhjemite-granodiorite (TTG) gneisses in the early Archean (4–3 Ga) to diversified granitoid rock assemblages in the late Archean (3.0–2.5 Ga), marking a crucial …
AbstractThe geodynamic evolution during the closure of the Paleo-Tethys Ocean in the Tibetan Plateau remains to be fully understood. The Longmu Co–Shuanghu suture zone in the northern Tibetan Plateau has usually been considered to represent the main oc…
AbstractAlkaline basalts produced in continental arcs should contain information different from the arc tholeiite-calc-alkaline-series magmas, and their origin could provide unique constraints on deep mantle composition and material cycling. However, d…
AbstractGeochemical and petrological diversity within transcrustal magmatic systems usually reflects the magma properties and magmatic processes and thus is critical to understanding the origin of magmatic complexes and the evolution of continental cru…
AbstractThe Fossil Bluff Group of eastern Alexander Island records the exceptional preservation of more than 8 km of Mesozoic sedimentary rocks deposited into an accretionary forearc basin that developed unconformably above a late Paleozoic accretionar…
AbstractSeismic interpretation and characterization of Middle Ordovician carbonates of the northern Tarim Basin in China reveal a series of deep-seated, sub-vertical conjugate strike-slip faults, together with sets of apparently layer-bound fractures s…
AbstractIdentifying geothermal reservoir rock types is fundamental in geothermal exploration, but the absence of active surface geothermal manifestations (especially hot springs) in blind geothermal systems makes this identification difficult. Neverthe…
AbstractCharnockitic rocks are a suite of granulite-facies plutonic rocks that include dominantly granitic–tonalitic and partly dioritic rocks. The Na-rich endmembers of the charnockite series, including dioritic to tonalitic rocks, are also termed end…