AbstractThe contributions of deeply subducted slabs to post-collisional magmatism are poorly constrained. Here, we present a study of the post-collisional, Early Permian (ca. 279 Ma), Hamisite basalts from the Western Tianshan NW China to trace the geo…
AbstractOwing to their intriguing appearance and unusual occurrence, as well as their significance in addressing magmatic processes, orbicules have attracted attention from geologists all over the world. We discovered an orbicule-bearing boulder in the…
AbstractThe Central Asian Orogenic Belt was characterized by a long-lived accretionary history from Neoproterozoic to Paleozoic, followed by a collisional phase of orogeny in the latest Paleozoic with the closure of the Paleo-Asian Ocean. However, Ni-C…
AbstractPaleogeographic reconstructions of the Lhasa terrane for the Cretaceous provide important constraints on the evolution of the Neo-Tethys Ocean and crustal shortening within Asia. However, the Cretaceous paleogeography of the Lhasa terrane remai…
AbstractThe central Apennines are a fold-thrust belt currently affected by post-orogenic extensional seismicity. To constrain the influence that the inherited thrust-related structures exert on the present seismic behavior of the belt, we provide the h…
AbstractThe subarctic North Atlantic Ocean has experienced a complex and gradual magmatic evolution, including continental breakup, mature seafloor spreading, and episodic ridge jumps. Here, we present new in situ major-element, trace-element, and Sr i…
AbstractThe Wilkins Peak Member (WPM) of the Green River Formation in Wyoming, USA, comprises alternating lacustrine and alluvial strata that preserve a record of terrestrial climate during the early Eocene climatic optimum. We use a Bayesian framework…
AbstractThe metal source and genesis of hydrothermal mercury-rich gold metallogenic systems occurring far away from active continental margins remain puzzling. The Youjiang Basin of South China, where exists numerous Carlin-type gold deposits and some …
AbstractDeep canyons along the Salmon, Snake, and Clearwater rivers in central Idaho, USA suggest long-lasting transient incision, but the timing and drivers of this incision are not well understood. The perturbation of the Yellowstone hotspot, eruptio…
AbstractMuch controversy exists regarding the evolution and termination of accretionary orogens where typical continent-continent collision features are lacking. The Central Asian Orogenic Belt provides a key opportunity to explore the genetic relation…