Progress towards an improved Precambrian seawater 87Sr/86Sr curve

X Chen, Y Zhou, GA Shields - Earth-Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
The secular trend of seawater strontium isotope ratio (87 Sr/86 Sr) reflects changes in the
relative contributions of continental versus mantle reservoirs to ocean composition, and …

Rejuvenation of ancient micro-continents during accretionary orogenesis: Insights from the Yili Block and adjacent regions of the SW Central Asian Orogenic Belt

H Huang, T Wang, Y Tong, Q Qin, X Ma, J Yin - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract In the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB), whether substantial juvenile additions
associated with accretionary orogenesis are preserved is still a pending issue. The Yili Block …

Mid–Neoproterozoic collision of the Tarim Craton with the Yili–Central Tianshan Block towards the final assembly of Supercontinent Rodinia: A new model

HX Wu, FQ Zhang, Y Dilek, HL Chen, CY Wang… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB) has been considered as an archetype of
an accretionary orogenic belt that developed through steady–state subduction–accretion …

Speculations on the Paleozoic legacy of Gondwana amalgamation

JB Murphy, RD Nance, ST Johnston, JM Casas… - Gondwana …, 2024 - Elsevier
Using Gondwana as an example, we show how the geological record can be interrogated to
detect significant changes in mantle convection patterns at critical junctures in Earth's …

Ediacaran magmatism and rifting along the northern margin of the Tarim craton: Implications for the late Neoproterozoic Rodinia configuration and breakup

HX Wu, Y Dilek, FQ Zhang, HL Chen, H Chen… - …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Tarim craton in modern Central Asia was an important component of the supercontinent
Rodinia in the Neoproterozoic, although its paleogeography in Rodinia during that era is still …

Linking∼ 1.4–0.8 Ga volcano-sedimentary records in eastern Central Asian orogenic belt with southern Laurentia in supercontinent cycles

Z Wang, Z Wang, Y Zhang, B Xu, Y Li, Y Tian… - Gondwana …, 2022 - Elsevier
The record of Meso-to Neoproterozoic magmatism and sedimentation from the western
Xing'an-Airgin Sum Block (XAB), eastern Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB), provides the …

Paleozoic crustal evolution and tectonic switching in the Northeastern Tianshan: insights from zircon Hf isotopes of granitoids

L Du, H Zhu, C Yuan, Y Zhang, Z Huang… - Journal of the …, 2021 - lyellcollection.org
Decoding the crustal and tectonic evolution of ancient accretionary orogens is not always
straightforward. Here, four episodes of Paleozoic granitoids have been identified with …

Late Mesoproterozoic–early Neoproterozoic quartzite–schist sequences of the Aktau–Mointy terrane (Central Kazakhstan): Provenance, crustal evolution, and …

NA Kanygina, AA Tretyakov, KE Degtyarev… - Precambrian …, 2021 - Elsevier
Metasedimentary complexes represented by quartzite–schist Kiik Group quartzite–schists
play a significant role in the Aktau–Mointy terrane structure, which is one of the largest …

Detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology of Ordovician-Silurian strata in the northwestern platform of the Tarim Basin: Implications for provenance systems and tectonic …

Z Zhong, G Hou, J Xia, X Li, L Wei, H Chang - Gondwana Research, 2024 - Elsevier
The northern margin of the Tarim Block (NTB) is an essential tectonic unit for understanding
the tectonic-sedimentary system and geodynamic mechanisms of the Tarim Block and the …

Detrital zircon ages of the Mesoproterozoic metasedimentary rocks in the southern Yili Block: Implications for tectonic affinities of the microcontinents in SW Central …

X Zhu, B Wang, Z Sun, J Liu, Z He, L Zhong - Precambrian Research, 2020 - Elsevier
The origins and Paleogeographic reconstruction of the Precambrian microcontinents in the
Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB) are essential for understanding the continental crustal …