Secular change in metamorphism and the onset of global plate tectonics

M Brown, T Johnson - American Mineralogist, 2018 - degruyter.com
On the contemporary Earth, distinct plate tectonic settings are characterized by differences in
heat flow that are recorded in metamorphic rocks as differences in apparent thermal …

A Cenozoic Record of Deep Oceanic Zn Isotopic Composition in Ferromanganese Crusts

M Zhao, N Planavsky, X Wang, Y Zhang… - American Journal of …, 2023 - ajsonline.org
Water plays a critical role in erosion and sediment transport and this relationship is most
evident in the hyperarid Atacama Desert of Northern Chile, a region characterized by …

Modeling metamorphic rocks using equilibrium thermodynamics and internally consistent databases: Past achievements, problems and perspectives

P Lanari, E Duesterhoeft - Journal of Petrology, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The astonishing progress of personal computer technology in the past 30 years as well as
the availability of thermodynamic data and modeling programs have revolutionized our …

Numerical modeling of subduction: State of the art and future directions

T Gerya - Geosphere, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
During the past five decades, numerical modeling of subduction, one of the most
challenging and captivating geodynamic processes, remained in the core of geodynamic …

Blueschist facies fault tectonites from the western margin of the Siberian Craton: Implications for subduction and exhumation associated with early stages of the Paleo …

II Likhanov, JL Régnier, M Santosh - Lithos, 2018 - Elsevier
The tectonic evolution of the Siberian Cratonic margins offers important clues for global
paleogeographic reconstructions, particularly with regard to the complex geological history …

Tectonic overpressure and underpressure in lithospheric tectonics and metamorphism

T Gerya - Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The lithostatic pressure concept is most commonly applied on a geological scale for
lithospheric processes and related evolution of metamorphic rock complexes. Here, various …

Metamorphic pressure variation in a coherent Alpine nappe challenges lithostatic pressure paradigm

C Luisier, L Baumgartner, SM Schmalholz… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Pressure–temperature–time paths obtained from minerals in metamorphic rocks allow the
reconstruction of the geodynamic evolution of mountain ranges under the assumption that …

Micropetrology: Are inclusions grains of truth?

S Ferrero, RJ Angel - Journal of Petrology, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Inclusions in minerals, whether fluids, melts or crystalline phases, are small pieces of the
large-scale puzzle of Nature, time-consuming to investigate and often of difficult …

The effects of stress on reactions in the Earth: Sometimes rather mean, usually normal, always important

J Wheeler - Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Stress affects chemical processes on all scales in the Earth but the magnitude of its effect is
debated. Here, I give a new synthesis of the theory that describes the effects of stress on …

Some thoughts about eclogites and related rocks

M Brown - European Journal of Mineralogy, 2023 - ejm.copernicus.org
The past 40 years have been a golden age for eclogite studies, supported by an ever wider
range of instrumentation and enhanced computational capabilities, linked with ongoing …