The crust of the Kaapvaal craton accreted throughout the Archaean over nearly 1 billion
years. It provides a unique example of the various geological processes that shape Earth's …

Granitoids are a major component of the continental crust. They play a pivotal role in its
evolution, either by adding new material (continental growth), or by reworking older …

Strongly peraluminous granites (SPGs) form through the partial melting of metasedimentary
rocks and therefore represent archives of the influence of assimilation of sedimentary rocks …

Leucogranites are a characteristic feature of collisional orogens. Their generation is
intimately related to crustal thickening and the active deformation and metamorphism of …

Widespread leucogranites in the Himalayan orogenic belt are thought to have originated by
in situ partial melting of the Greater Himalayan Crystalline (GHC) when it underwent high …

Partial melting of continental crust and evolution of granitic magmas are inseparably linked
to the availability of H2O. In the absence of a free aqueous fluid, melting takes place at …

We constrain the genetic relation between granite and pegmatite parental melts from the
Variscan Saint Sylvestre leucogranite complex and associated pegmatite bodies (Massif …

Equilibrium and disequilibrium meltings are two common mechanisms in the geochemical
differentiation of the continental crust. However, responses of trace elements to the two …

Plutons within continental strike-slip shear zones bear important geological processes on
late-stage plate transpression and continent-continent collision and associated lateral block …

Anatectic granites represent the products of crustal maturation by partial melting, therefore,
studies on their origin are crucial to understanding how continental crust forms and evolves …