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    Recognition of the Phanerozoic “Young granite gneiss” in the central Yeongnam massif

    Up to now, all the high-grade gneisses of the Korean peninsula have been regarded as Precambrian basement rocks and presence of the Phanerozoic high-grade metamorphic rocks have remained unknown. However, such...

    Yong-Sun Song, Ho-Sun Lee, Kye-Hun Park, Ian C. W. Fitzsimons in Geosciences Journal (2015)

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    Extensive crustal extraction in Earth’s early history inferred from molybdenum isotopes

    Estimates of the volume of the earliest crust based on zircon ages and radiogenic isotopes remain equivocal. Stable isotope systems, such as molybdenum, have the potential to provide further constraints but re...

    Alex J. McCoy-West, Priyadarshi Chowdhury, Kevin W. Burton in Nature Geoscience (2019)

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    I-type and S-type granites in the Earth’s earliest continental crust

    The composition and origin of Earth’s earliest continental crust remains enigmatic due to the absence of Hadean (>4 Ga) age rocks. Here we address this question by using machine learning to examine the provena...

    Shihua Zhong, Sanzhong Li, Yang Liu, Peter A. Cawood in Communications Earth & Environment (2023)

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    Pre-Cryogenian integrative stratigraphy, biotas, and paleogeographical evolution of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and its surrounding areas

    The composition and geological evolution of pre-Cryogenian material in the Tibetan Plateau and its surrounding areas have played an important role in studying the formation and evolution of early supercontinen...

    Peiyuan Hu, Qingguo Zhai, Guochun Zhao, Peter A. Cawood in Science China Earth Sciences (2024)