The mining company Sama Nickel-CI during its exploration activities in the Bounta area (Biankouma department, western Côte d’Ivoire) identified rocks with magmatic and metamorphic characteristics of felsic to ma...
the outcome of a joint research project between Assiut University,Université Clermont-Auvergne,Ball State University,Swedish Museum of Natural History,Michigan State University and Notre Dame University;financial support from the Geology Department,Assiut University;Major and trace elements analyses were carried out with a grant from Science and Technology Development Fund(STDF),Egypt to Ali Abu El-Rus(contract no.6107);U-Pb analyses of zircons were funded through a Ball-State University internal grant to K.Nicholson and S.Malone.
The Shaitian granite complex(SGC)spans more than 80 Ma of crustal growth in the Arabian–Nubian Shield in southeast Egypt.It is a voluminous composite intrusion(60 km2)comprising a host tonalite massif intruded by sub...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.41303041 and41763005);Open Fund(Nos.Z1909,Z1912,RGET1804,15LCD08)of the State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Resources and Environment;Fundamental Science on Radioactive Geology and Exploration Technology Laboratory;State Key Laboratory of Continental Dynamics。
The cratonization history of the North China Craton(NCC)and the nature of tectonothermal events are still highly controversial.Tonalite-trondhjemite-granodiorite(TTG)gneisses,as the dominant lithological assemblages i...
Genesis of the oldest continental crust retains a marked trace in the Earth’s evolution over its 4.5 Ga history. Despite ample isotope data on the role of the continental crust in the Earth’s evolution, there has be...
The A-type Harsora-Dadikar granites in the Alwar complex of northern Aravalli orogen,NW India provide evidence for subsolidus-requilibration of feldspars.They record three new discrete stages of albitisation,producing...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41430207)
It is generally believed that trondhjemitic rock, an important component of TTG rocks, is the anatectic product of mafic rocks. However, in many TTG gneiss terranes, for instance, the granulite facies terrane in Easte...