Early Paleoproterozoic TTG gneisses and potassic granitoids in the southern Trans-North China Orogen: Key constraints on the tectonic setting during the tectono …

J Wang, X Long - Earth-Science Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Magmatic rocks in the North China Craton (NCC) are crucial to unraveling the tectonic
background during the tectono-magmatic lull (TML, 2.45–2.20 Ga) and to constraining the …

[HTML][HTML] Archaean continental crust formed from mafic cumulates

MA Smit, KA Musiyachenko, J Goumans - nature communications, 2024 - nature.com
Large swaths of juvenile crust with tonalite-trondhjemite-granodiorite (TTG) composition
were added to the continental crust from about 3.5 billion years ago. Although TTG …

Central Tibetan adakitic rocks archive the critical impact of water on the Nb/Ta variation in deep crustal melts

YC Zeng, JF Xu, F Huang, XJ Liu, MJ Li… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2024 - Elsevier
Nb and Ta are geochemical twins, yet their ratio varies considerably in igneous rocks. It is
generally supposed that felsic melts coexisting with residual rutile will have elevated Nb/Ta …

Review of temporal trend in Archean granitoid chemistry-implications for Eoarchean (3.7–3.9 Ga) transition in geodynamic regime of crust formation

R Saha, D Upadhyay, B Mishra - Precambrian Research, 2024 - Elsevier
In this study, we review changes in Archean granitoid chemistry using stacked probability
density estimation and statistical change-point analyses. A significant change in Archean …

[HTML][HTML] 3.7 billion year old detrital sediments in Greenland are consistent with active plate tectonics in the Eoarchean

AJ Boyd, MT Rosing, MAR Harding… - … Earth & Environment, 2024 - nature.com
Plate tectonic processes modulate element cycling, crust generation, and differentiation, yet
at what point in Earth's history these processes emerged remains debated. Here we present …

[HTML][HTML] Convergent plate boundary environments for formation of≥ 3800 Ma mafic–ultramafic assemblages (Isua area, Greenland): Implications for early global …

AP Nutman, CRL Friend, VC Bennett - Geoscience Frontiers, 2024 - Elsevier
In the gneiss terrane on the south side of the Eoarchean Isua supracrustal belt, ultramafic
rocks with relict abyssal peridotite mineralogy (Bennett et al., 2002, Friend et al., 2002 …

Temporal evolution of the early–late Neoarchean granitoid magmatism in the eastern North China Craton: Transition of geodynamic regime from mantle plume to …

H Shan, M Zhai, X Lu - Bulletin, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A study of tonalite–trondhjemite–granodiorite (TTG) suite and sanukitoids emplaced at
different ages in the Archean can constrain the transition of early Earth's tectonic regime …

Evidence for a missing late veneer from 182W and 142Nd systematics in the Archean São Francisco Craton

FP Leitzke, JJ Pakulla, J Tusch, A Ravindran… - Earth and Planetary …, 2024 - Elsevier
The oldest crustal remnants on Earth are represented by greenstone belts and tonalite-
trondhjemite-granodiorite (TTG) associations that form most of Archean blocks worldwide …

Prolonged arc accretion during growth of juvenile crust in the Arabian Nubian Shield: Insights from the granitoids of northern Ethiopia

M Gebreslassie, SB Zhang, L Zhang, T Liang… - Gondwana …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Arabian Nubian Shield (ANS) is one of the largest juvenile continental crusts
formed after the Archean. To determine the timing and understand the mechanism of its …

[HTML][HTML] Oligocene magmatism in the eastern sakarya zone, ne turkey: Geodynamic implications

ŞU Sönmez, R Moritz, S Keskin, F Turlin… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2024 - Elsevier
During the Cenozoic, the eastern Sakarya Zone, northeastern Turkey has witnessed
voluminous Eocene and subsidiary Miocene magmatism. By contrast, except in one …