The geological history of northwestern South America: from Pangaea to the early collision of the Caribbean Large Igneous Province (290–75 Ma)

R Spikings, R Cochrane, D Villagomez… - Gondwana …, 2015 - Elsevier
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 …

Rejuvenation of ancient micro-continents during accretionary orogenesis: Insights from the Yili Block and adjacent regions of the SW Central Asian Orogenic Belt

H Huang, T Wang, Y Tong, Q Qin, X Ma, J Yin - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract In the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB), whether substantial juvenile additions
associated with accretionary orogenesis are preserved is still a pending issue. The Yili Block …

The zircon archive of continent formation through time

NMW Roberts, CJ Spencer - 2015 - lyellcollection.org
The strong resilience of the mineral zircon and its ability to host a wealth of isotopic
information make it the best deep-time archive of Earth's continental crust. Zircon is found in …

Growth, destruction, and preservation of Earth's continental crust

CJ Spencer, NMW Roberts, M Santosh - Earth-Science Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
From the scant Hadean records of the Jack Hills to Cenozoic supervolcanoes, the
continental crust provides a synoptic view deep into Earth history. However, the information …

[HTML][HTML] Generation and preservation of continental crust in the Grenville Orogeny

CJ Spencer, PA Cawood, CJ Hawkesworth… - Geoscience …, 2015 - Elsevier
Detrital zircons from modern sediments display an episodic temporal distribution of U-Pb
crystallization ages forming a series of 'peaks' and 'troughs'. The peaks are interpreted to …

Spatial and temporal radiogenic isotopic trends of magmatism in Cordilleran orogens

JB Chapman, MN Ducea, P Kapp, GE Gehrels… - Gondwana …, 2017 - Elsevier
An intrinsic feature of Cordillera-style orogenic systems is a spatial trend in the radiogenic
isotopic composition of subduction-related magmatism. Magmatism is most isotopically …

The core of Rodinia formed by the juxtaposition of opposed retreating and advancing accretionary orogens

EL Martin, CJ Spencer, WJ Collins, RJ Thomas… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Long-lived (800 Ma) Paleo–to Mesoproterozoic accretionary orogens on the
margins of Laurentia, Baltica, Amazonia, and Kalahari collided to form the core of the …

Late Paleozoic subduction and collision processes during the amalgamation of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt along the South Tianshan suture zone

Y Han, G Zhao, M Sun, PR Eizenhöfer, W Hou… - Lithos, 2016 - Elsevier
The provenance of late Paleozoic siliciclastic sedimentary strata on the northern margin of
the Tarim Craton and the South Tianshan Orogenic Belt provides important insights into …

Archean crustal evolution in the Southern São Francisco craton, Brazil: Constraints from U-Pb, Lu-Hf and O isotope analyses

C Albert, F Farina, C Lana, G Stevens, C Storey… - Lithos, 2016 - Elsevier
In this study we present U–Pb and Hf isotope data combined with O isotopes in zircon from
Neoarchean granitoids and gneisses of the southern São Francisco craton in Brazil. The …

Geochronology and geochemistry of Permian to Early Triassic granitoids in the Alxa Terrane: Constraints on the final closure of the Paleo-Asian Ocean

Q Liu, G Zhao, Y Han, PR Eizenhöfer, Y Zhu… - …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
As a pivotal junction between the North China and Tarim cratons, the Alxa Terrane provides
an ideal window to constrain the final closure of the middle segment of the Paleo-Asian …