Growth of continental crust in intra-oceanic and continental-margin arc systems: Analogs for Archean systems

T Kusky, L Wang - Science China Earth Sciences, 2022 - Springer
Earth's continental crust has grown and been recycled throughout geologic history along
convergent plate margins. The main locus of continental crustal growth is in intra-oceanic …

The Altaids: A review of twenty-five years of knowledge accumulation

AMC Şengör, G Sunal, BA Natal'in, R van der Voo - Earth-Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
The Altaids is the largest orogenic belt in Central Asia occupying some~ 9 million km 2. It is
a Turkic-type orogeny assembled between~ 750 and~ 150 Ma around the western and …

[HTML][HTML] On the nature of the Cimmerian Continent

AMC Şengör, D Altıner, C Zabcı, G Sunal, N Lom… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Cimmerian Continent is the narrow continental strip that rifted from the
northeastern Gondwana-Land margin mostly during the Permian between the present-day …

Temporal variations in the incompatible trace element systematics of Archean TTGs: Implications for crustal growth and tectonic processes in the early Earth

P Sotiriou, A Polat, B Windley, T Kusky - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, we applied classification and tectonic setting diagrams, N-MORB-normalised
trace element and incompatible element temporal variation diagrams, Nb/Nb*, Pb/Pb …

Temporal variations in the incompatible trace element systematics of Archean volcanic rocks: Implications for tectonic processes in the early Earth

P Sotiriou, A Polat, BF Windley, T Kusky - Precambrian Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Temporal variations in the incompatible trace element geochemistry of volcanic rocks in
Archean greenstone belts have major implications for the style of tectonics that operated in …

The nature and origin of cratons constrained by their surface geology

AMC Şengör, N Lom, A Polat - Bulletin, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Cratons, defined by their resistance to deformation, are guardians of crustal and lithospheric
material over billion-year time scales. Archean and Proterozoic rocks can be found in many …

Alpine-style tectonic nappe stacking in an Archean suture zone: Quantitative structural profile places constraints on orogenic architecture

Y Zhong, TM Kusky, L Wang, C Wang, Y Peng… - Gondwana …, 2023 - Elsevier
We report the structural geometry and stacking sequence of an Archean Alpine-style sub-
horizontal fold/thrust nappe pile in the Precambrian basement of the Zanhuang massif …

Migration of the Palaeozoic magmatic front from Zagros to Alborz mountains with progressive closure of the Palaeo-Tethys Ocean; Insights from Zagros detrital zircon …

A Mohammadi, A Kaveh-Firouz, F Cai, A Dolati, N Lom… - Tectonophysics, 2023 - Elsevier
The northwest-southeast-trending Zagros Fold-and Thrust Belt in south Iran resulted from
the late Oligocene to the early Miocene collision of the Arabian and Central Iran blocks. The …

How many oceans closed during the Brasiliano Cycle in northeastern Brazil? Implications for the amalgamation of western Gondwana

SP Neves - Earth-Science Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
In a pre-Mesozoic drift reconstitution, the Borborema Province in northeastern Brazil
connects with the Central African Fold belt to the East and with the Nigerian and Tuareg …

A paradigm shift: North China Craton's North Margin Orogen is the collisional suture with the Columbia Supercontinent

TM Kusky, A Traore - Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In a new study, Wu, Wang, Zhou, Zhao, Haproff, et al.(2022, https://doi. org/10.1029/
2022GC010662) present a comprehensive study of the North Margin Orogen of the North …