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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)

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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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    Jurassic cooling ages in Paleozoic to early Mesozoic granitoids of northeastern Patagonia: 40Ar/39Ar, 40K–40Ar mica and U–Pb zircon evidence

    U–Pb SHRIMP zircon crystallization ages and Ar–Ar and K–Ar mica cooling ages for basement rocks of the Yaminué and Nahuel Niyeu areas in northeastern Patagonia are presented. Granitoids that cover the time spa...

    Carmen I. Martínez Dopico, Eric Tohver in International Journal of Earth Sciences (2017)

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    Early Paleozoic accretionary orogenesis along northern margin of Gondwana constrained by high-Mg metaigneous rocks, SW Yunnan

    SW Yunnan of China constituted part of the northern margin of Gondwana facing the proto-Tethys ocean in the early Paleozoic. However, the evolution of the region and its relationship with the accretionary orog...

    **aowan **ng, Yuejun Wang, Peter A. Cawood in International Journal of Earth Sciences (2017)

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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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    Geology and timing of mineralization at the Cangshang gold deposit, north-western Jiaodong Peninsula, China

    The Cangshang gold deposit of the north-western Jiaodong Peninsula contains reserves of greater than 50 tonnes (t) and is developed by the largest open pit gold mine in China. This deposit is a Jiaojia-style (...

    **ao'ou Zhang, Peter A. Cawood, Simon A. Wilde, Ruqi Liu in Mineralium Deposita (2003)

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    Processes of Ophiolite Emplacement in Oman and Newfoundland

    The Semail Ophiolite in the Sultanate of Oman, and the Bay of Islands and St. Anthony Ophiolite Complexes in western Newfoundland show a similar multistage history of ophiolite obduction. This involved both in...

    Peter A. Cawood in Ophiolite Genesis and Evolution of the Oceanic Lithosphere (1991)