Partial melting is the fundamental process by which juvenile crust was produced from the
mantle and subsequently reworked to become the stable, compositionally-differentiated …

The phosphate mineral monazite (LREE, Y, Th, Ca, Si) PO4 occurs as an accessory phase
in peraluminous granites and Ca-poor meta-psammopelites. Due to negligible common Pb …

The Th/U ratios of zircon crystals are routinely used to help understand their growth
mechanism. Despite the wide application of Th/U ratios in understanding the geological …

Earth's earliest continental crust is dominated by tonalite–trondhjemite–granodiorite (TTG)
suites, making these rocks key to unlocking the global geodynamic regime operating during …

The Precambrian granulite terrane of south India is known for the preservation of regional-
scale high to ultrahigh-temperature (HT-UHT) metamorphic rocks. In the Madurai block, the …

The investigation of ultrahigh temperature (UHT) metamorphic rocks, and their
corresponding (pressure)-temperature-time (PTt) history is critical to distinguish between arc …

Heat generated from the decay of K, Th, and U plays a fundamental role in the differentiation
and stabilization of Earth's continental crust. This is particularly important in the construction …

Metamorphism and partial melting of the lower crust is commonly assumed to cause
depletion in heat producing elements (HPEs; K, U, Th). In the deep crust, volumetrically …

The study of magmatic and metamorphic processes is challenged by geological
complexities like geochemical variations, geochronological uncertainties and the …

In recent decades, constraining the timing of shear activity has been one of the main topics
of research about the tectono-metamorphic evolution of orogenic belts. We present a review …