Abstract Northwestern South America preserves a record of the assembly of western
Pangaea, its disassembly and initiation of the far western Tethys Wilson Cycle, subsequent …

This contribution provides an insight into the use of mineral chemistry in provenance
research, and demonstrates how studies, by using microbeam techniques on several detrital …

Laser ablation–inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) analyses of 29
samples from the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia reveal the origin of northern Andean …

Crustal anatectites are frequently observed along ocean–continent active margins, although
their origins are disputed with interpretations varying between rift-related and collisional. We …

The Darbut Ophiolitic Complex consists of ultramafic rocks, cumulates, pillow lavas and
abyssal radiolarian cherts, and occurs in the Sartuohai–Suluqiaoke area which is situated in …

This paper presents laser-ablation (MC)-ICP-MS single-zircon Hf isotopic data coupled with
U–Pb geochronology from a unique rock inventory in southern Israel, recording ca. 300m. y …

Abstract The Ivrea–Verbano Zone in the western Italian Alps contains one of the world's
classic examples of ponding of mantle-derived, mafic magma in the deep crust. Within it, a …

Magmatic processes were important on the nascent Earth during the first 500 million years
(Ma) after accretion, yet the causes and timing of this early magmatism are largely …

Truong Son terrane, one of the most important tectonic and metallogenic terranes in
Indochina block, is composed of many volcano–plutonic complexes. Reported here is …

Zircon is a widely-used heavy mineral in geochronological and geochemical research
because it can extract important information to understand the history and genesis of rocks …