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Crustal variability along the rifted/sheared East African margin: a review
The East African margin between the Somali Basin in the north and the Natal Basin in the south formed as a result of the Jurassic/Cretaceous...
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Early Silurian Trench-arc-basin System in Northwestern Margin of the North Qilian Orogen, China: Constraints from U–Pb Zircon Geochronology of Tuffs and Sandstones
AbstractThe North Qilian Orogen is considered as a representative oceanic suture zone formed by the closure of the North Qilian Ocean, which forms...
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Early Triassic Legoupil Formation in Schmidt Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula: Provenance and Depositional Settings
Geochemical compositions can be used to determine the tectonic setting of sedimentary basins, while where the link of source to sink is no longer...
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Latest Carboniferous–Early Permian Rifting of the Northern Gondwanan Margin and the Opening of the Northern Neotethys: New Evidence from the Carboniferous and Permian Foraminiferal Assemblages from the Beysehir-Hoyran Nappes, Central Taurides (Southern Turkey)
The Beyşehir-Hoyran Nappes, one of the tectonostratigraphic units of the Taurides, are thought to be originated from the Izmir-Ankara Ocean (northern...
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Petrogenesis, U–Pb Age, and Lu–Hf Systematics of Rocks of the Garevka Complex (Northern Yenisei Ridge): Evidence of the Grenville Events at the Western Margin of the Siberian Craton
AbstractIt is established for the first time that biotite plagiogneisses from the Garevka metamorphic complex of the North Yenisei Ridge have...
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Formation of the Neoproterozoic Continental Crust in the Structures of the Central Segment of the Central Asian Fold Belt
The paper considers the results of geochronological (U-Pb method, ID-TIMS), geochemical, and Sm-Nd isotopic studies of granitoids, volcanics, and...
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The Makkah–Madinah Transform Zone: a relic rift-to-rift continental transform formed during early Arabia–Nubia plate separation
The continental-rifting of Arabia from Nubia, and the initial evolution of the Red Sea spreading center includes many of the continental-rifting to...
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Gravity modelling of crustal architecture and heterogeneity in the Nansha Block, South China Sea
The stretched structure and heterogeneity of the crust of the Nansha Block, the southern continental margin of the South China Sea (SCS), are not...
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Grenville and Valhalla Tectonic Events at the Western Margin of the Siberian Craton: Evidence from Rocks of the Garevka Complex, Northern Yenisei Range, Russia
AbstractUnderstanding the tectonic evolution of the Yenisei Range offers important clues not only for the tectonic evolution of orogenic belts at...
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Geodynamics of the Active Margin of Northeast Asia in the Late Cretaceous–Paleogene
AbstractLate Cretaceous to Paleogene suprasubduction systems of Northeast Asia’s active margin are considered in order to determine key objects for...
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Early Cretaceous Tectonostratigraphic Evolution of the Southern Tunisian Margin Based on Gravity, Seismic and Potential Field Data: New Insights into a Geodynamic Evolution in a Tethyan and Mesogean Rifting Context
Many geophysical and geological data have been used to interpret the tectonic evolution of the south-eastern part of the Tunisian margin and to...
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Conjugate nature of the Alleppey-Trivandrum Terrace Complex with the Northern Madagascar Ridge in the early opening model of the Arabian Sea: evaluation based on an integrated geophysical investigation
The southwestern continental margin of India reveals the presence of an anomalous bathymetric high feature located in the mid-continental slope...
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Early Ordovician–Middle Silurian Subduction-Closure of the Proto-Tethys Ocean: Evidence from the Qiaerlong Pluton at the Northwestern Margin of the West Kunlun Orogenic Belt, NW China
Early Paleozoic magmatism in the West Kunlun Orogenic Belt (WKOB) preserves important information about the tectonic evolution of the Proto-Tethys...
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The crustal nature of the northern Mozambique Ridge, Southwest Indian Ocean
The Mozambique Ridge (MOZR) is one of the basement high structures located in the Southwest Indian Ocean, parallel to the Southeast African...
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Zircon U-Pb Chronology and Geochemistry of the Late Ordovician–Early Silurian K–Bentonite from the Western Segment of the South Dabashan, Northern Margin of the Yangtze Block and Its Regionally Tectonic Implications
AbstractThe Ordovician–Silurian bentonite is an ideal target for probing complex geological events such as biological extinction, glaciations, and...
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Tectonic evolution of Nellore Schist Belt along the southeastern margin of Eastern Dharwar Craton, South India: A critical study with a geological and geophysical approach
The Nellore Schist Belt (NSB) along the southeastern margin of Eastern Dharwar Craton (EDC) is similar to all other Late Archaean greenstone belts of...
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The Maira-Sampeyre and Val Grana Allochthons (south Western Alps): review and new data on the tectonometamorphic evolution of the Briançonnais distal margin
Here we describe the structure, the high-pressure, low-temperature (HP-LT) metamorphism and tectonic evolution of the Briançonnais distal margin...
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Cenozoic Propagated Rifting in the Dangerous Grounds in Response to the Episodic Seafloor Spreading of the South China Sea
The southern continental margin of the South China Sea has documented multiphase continental rifting corresponding to the propagation of seafloor...
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Outline of the Pilbara Craton
Previous investigations of the northern Pilbara Craton are briefly summarized, followed by an outline of the region’s lithostratigraphy and major...
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Structural controls on the emplacement of scoria cones and rhyolite domes of the western Afar margin, Ethiopia
Matured continental rift zones that imprint the complete cycle of rifting are rare deformation environments in the globe. The western Afar margin is...