期刊: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, 2021; 321 (1-2)
The evolution of the largest accretionary orogen in the world, the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB), involved a prolonged accretion history since th......
期刊: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, 2021; 321 (1-2)
Qixia is a typical area of early Precambrian basement in eastern Shandong Province, eastern North China Craton. Many TTG (tonalite-trondhjemitegranodi......
期刊: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, 2021; 321 (1-2)
Evolution of the Indian Block can be traced through Earth's Phanerozoic and Precambrian supercontinent cycles. The Paleoproterozoic tectonostratigraph......
期刊: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, 2021; 321 (1-2)
The ca. 2.5 Ga as the time boundary between the Archean and the Proterozoic eons is a landmark, indicating the most important continental crust evolvi......
期刊: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, 2021; 321 (1-2)
The Xar Moron River fault zone, located in the eastern segment of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB), represents the intensely debated final colli......
期刊: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, 2021; 321 (1-2)
The Epupa Complex of northern Namibia constitutes the south-western margin of the Archean Congo Craton of central Africa. We present new petrological ......
期刊: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, 2021; 321 (1-2)
The Qinling orogen, one of the most important orogens in Asia, belongs to the northeastern part of the Tethyan orogen. The architecture and processes ......
期刊: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, 2020; 320 (2)
A new combined geochronological and paleomagnetic study was carried out on the late Mesoproterozoic mafic dikes in the northeastern and central North ......
期刊: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, 2019; 319 (2)
Recent studies based on low-temperature chronology and sedimentology have proposed the existence of a proto-Tibetan Plateau (p-TP); however, the timin......
期刊: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, 2019; 319 (6)
The eastern China region is composed of the North China Craton (NCC) and the Yangtze Craton (YC), both of which underwent episodic orogenesis and magm......
期刊: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, 2018; 318 (10)
Depositional process, sediment provenance, and paleotopography are critical to paleogeographic reconstruction during the coeval Laramide and Sevier or......
期刊: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, 2018; 318 (10)
Oxygen and hafnium isotopic compositions, measured in-situ on U-Pb dated zircon grains from Paleoproterozoic to early Cambrian successions in NW India......
期刊: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, 2017; 317 (2)
Magmatic zircon from altered gabbros adjacent to the similar to 1.07 Ga Lala Fe-Cu deposit, SW China was modified by NaCl-rich brines related to the F......
期刊: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, 2017; 317 (4)
It is widely accepted that the incorporation of external sulfur via crustal contamination is an important trigger for sulfide immiscibility that gener......