supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.92155306).
Plate tectonics theory,established in the 1960s,has been successful in explaining many geological phenomena,processes and events that occurred in the Phanerozoic.However,the theory has often struggled to provide a coh...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.42072218)。
1.Introduction Archean cratons have attained and maintained long-term stability,and they are the main area for studying the geological processes and tectonic regime of early Earth.The majority of cratons have complete...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 91755213, 41890834, 41888101, 41961144020, 42072228, and 41602234);the Chinese Ministry of Education (Grant No. BP0719022);the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. QYZDY-SSWDQC017);the MOST Special Fund (Grant No. MSF-GPMR02-3);the Open Fund of the State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) (Grant No. GPMR201704)。
Earth’s continental crust has grown and been recycled throughout geologic history along convergent plate margins.The main locus of continental crustal growth is in intra-oceanic and continental-margin arc systems in ...
supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(Grant No.2016YFC0600109);the B-type Strategic Priority Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.XDB41000000);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.41973035&41688103);the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.2020068);the State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution(Grant No.SKL-Z201901-YT)。
To meet the rapid development of zircon U-Pb geochronology and Hf-O isotope geochemistry,it is imperative to develop well-characterized zircon reference materials for microbeam analysis.Here,zircon KV01 separated from...
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...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation (Grant Nos. 41430210 & 41302156);the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2012CB416606);the funding of the Institute of Geology, CAGS (Grant No. J1508)
Archean greenstone belts are supracrustal sequences, the lower part of which is usually composed of voluminous ultramafic-mafic volcanics. Intermediate and acid volcanic rocks increase in abundance towards the upper d...
supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 90814006, 40972135);Geological Survey of China (Grant No. 1212010510515)
The early Precambrian high-grade metamorphosed basement in the Xi Ulanbulang area, central Inner Mongolia of China, is composed mainly of intermediate granulites and charnockitic gneisses. Both types of the rocks are ...
supported by National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2007CB411308);National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 40803009 and 40772130);CAS/SAFEA International Partnership Program for Creative Research Teams
The basement rocks in the Kuluketage area are composed predominately of tonalite-trondhjemite-granodiorite rocks, and occured mainly in Xinger and Korla. U-Pb dating of TTG gneiss near Korla yielded a late Neoarchean ...
supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 40773046 and 10621303);Minor Planet Foundation of China
Six tektites from Guilin of Guangxi, Hainan, and Guangdong were analyzed for the abundances of major elements and 27 trace elements. All samples are splash-form tektites and have SiO2 contents ranging from 73.1wt% to ...
National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 40273008)
The Archean atmospheric oxygen concentration and sulfur cycle was long debated. The banded iron formation (BIF) is a special type of the sedimentary formation, which has truly recorded the atmospheric and oceanic cond...