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Damaging earthquakes of the Eastern Indian subcontinent and seismic hazard potential: insights from palaeoseismology Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Atul Brice, Arjun Pandey, R. Jayangondaperumal, Anusuya Mohanta, Rao Singh Priyanka, Madhusudan Sati, Yashpal Sundriyal
The ongoing Indo-Eurasian convergence leads to great megathrust earthquakes in the Himalayan region, affecting the life and infrastructure of the world’s most densely populated areas adjoining the ...
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Major, trace and platinum-group element geochemistry of mesoarchean komatiites from the banasandra greenstone belt, Western Dharwar craton (southern India): implications for multi-stage plume magmatism in generating compositionally diverse komatiites Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 K Vishnu, Ria Mukherjee, Ruksana Rose, Sisir K. Mondal, M. Lingadevaru
The early Archean Al-undepleted komatiites (AUK) from two locations (Kunikenahalli, Kodihalli) of the Banasandra greenstone belt in the Western Dharwar Craton are studied for understanding their pe...
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Heterogeneity of the late Mesozoic lithospheric mantle beneath the Jiaodong Peninsula, eastern North China Craton: a synthesis from geochemistry and Sr-Nd-Pb isotopes of mafic dykes Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Haiyi Wang, Yayun Liang, Xuefei Liu, Qingfei Wang, Yao Ma, Wenhao Xue, Yayi Fang, Senmiao Xue, Jun Deng
The Late Mesozoic lithospheric mantle evolution of the Jiaodong Peninsula is crucial for understanding the destruction of the eastern North China Craton (NCC) and large-scale gold mineralization, b...
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Granitic orthogneiss contributions to the generation of Himalayan leucogranites: insights from the eastern Himalayas Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Shuhao Zhang
Multi-component crustal sources are universally acknowledged as the overriding factor in causing geochemical heterogeneities of the Cenozoic Himalayan leucogranites. In previous studies, metasedime...
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Large-volume and swift magmatic response to Late Cenozoic segmentation of the subducted Neotethyan oceanic slab: evidence from the Galatian Volcanic Province, northwestern Turkey Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Özgür Karaoğlu, Elif Varol, Michele Lustrino, Massimo Chiaradia, Özlem Toygar Sağın, Sidney R. Hemming, İbrahim Uysal
The Miocene Galatian Volcanic Province (GVP) is one of the largest volcanic provinces in central-western Anatolia, with an extent of ~ 8,900 km2. The volcanic activity is extended from 22.5 to 7.5 ...
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Large paleoearthquakes and Holocene faulting in the Southeastern Gorny Altai: implications for ongoing crustal shortening in Central Asia Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Evgeny V. Deev, Andrey V. Panin, Olga N. Solomina, Svetlana S. Bricheva, Andrey P. Borodovskiy, Andrey L. Entin, Redzhep N. Kurbanov
Shrinking of intermontane basins and expansion of their flanking ranges by reverse faulting and backthrusting in two counter-dipping systems is a typical mechanism of crustal shortening and mountai...
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A conceptual model for the evolution of a magmatic system based on U-Pb zircon studies on the Devonian granites of Sierra de San Luis, Argentina Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-30 Juan A. Dahlquist, Matías M. Morales Cámera, Juan A. Moreno, Miguel A.S. Basei, Gilmara Santos da Cruz, Elson P. Oliveira
It is widely acknowledged that thermal models clearly demonstrate that crustal magma bodies should solidify rapidly upon emplacement. Small plutons can cool below the solidus in thousands of years,...
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Zircon provenances of the late Paleoproterozoic metasedimentary rock in the South Yangtze Block: Implications for paleogeographic reconstruction Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Shilei Liu, Guangming Ren, Zhiming Sun, Weihua Pang, Jie Peng, Fenglin Chen
The zircon provenances of the late Paleoproterozoic metasedimentary rocks are important for assembling Proto-Yangtze and its reconstruction in the Nuna supercontinent. We present a dataset involvin...
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Late Paleozoic potassic igneous rocks of the Adyrtor intrusions in the eastern Kyrgyz Tien Shan: geochemistry, isotope U-Pb zircon geochronology, and related W-Mo(-Cu-Au) mineralization Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Serguei G. Soloviev, Sergey G. Kryazhev, Dina V. Semenova, Yury A. Kalinin, Nikolay S. Bortnikov
The Adyrtor multiphase pluton is situated in the easternmost part of the ‘Main Structural Line of Tien Shan’, or the ‘Nikolaev Line’, and intrudes the Paleoproterozoic metamorphic sequence represen...
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Time constraint on global-scale plate reorganizations using records of continental deformation Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Ahmadreza Malekpour-Alamdari
Seafloor fabric indicators are the main features used for dating global-scale plate reorganizations. However, the lack of oceanic crusts older than 200 Ma limits their application only to the Mesoz...
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Fluvial deposits of the Patlanoaya Group in southern Mexico: the stratigraphic record of an Early Mississippian supradetachment basin formed along the margin of Gondwana during the closure of the Rheic Ocean Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Mildred Zepeda-Martínez, Michelangelo Martini, Luigi Solari, Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Navarro, Jonathan A. Anaya
The Rheic Ocean closure stratigraphic record in southern Mexico is largely exposed in the Paleozoic Acatlán Complex. One of the most distinctive characteristics of the Acatlán Complex is the presen...
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Geochemistry and U-Pb zircon geochronology of the Nkout banded iron formations and associated metasiliciclastic rocks, NW Congo craton, southern Cameroon Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Lysiane Christelle Kouayep Tchoundi, Sylvestre Ganno, Landry Soh Tamehe, Arlette Pulcherie Djoukouo Soh, Donald Hermann Fossi, Jean Paul Nzenti
The Nkout banded iron formations (BIFs)-hosted iron deposit is located in the Ntem Complex at the northwestern part of the Congo craton, southern Cameroon. We report geochronological and geochemica...
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Petrogenesis of early-middle jurassic igneous rocks in the Central Jilin Province, NE China: implications for the early subduction of the Paleo-Pacific ocean and crustal growth Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Jinlei Sun, Kan Gao, Lingyun Sun, Lixiang Zhao, Yanjie Shen, Ye Qian, Fengyue Sun
Crustal growth is closely associated with the oceanic subduction process, although the precise mechanism involved remains poorly constrained. Northeast (NE) China is an important component of the l...
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Petrogenesis of late cretaceous arc volcanism in the Eastern Pontides, NE Turkey: insight from zircon U–Pb geochronology, whole-rock geochemistry and Hf-Sr-Nd isotopes Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Abdullah Sar, Sevcan Kürüm, Mustafa Eren Rizeli, Hao-Yang Lee
The Eastern Pontide Orogenic Belt (EPOB), a well-preserved palaeo-magmatic arc, exists south of the Black Sea, from Bulgaria to Georgia. The region, which forms an essential part of the Alpine-Hima...
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Cenozoic tectono-thermal evolution of the Weihe Basin, Central China Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Jiafei Lu, Song Rao, Shengbiao Hu, Shunde Huang, Qiaoran Zhang, Wenjing Li, Yinan Yang
As a passive rift basin in the Cenozoic, the formation and evolution process of the Weihe Basin has not been well explained. Here we estimate the stretching factor and basal heat flow for each rift...
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Heterogeneous dacitic magmas and the role of crustal assimilation in the Sierra Chichinautzin Volcanic Field, central Mexico: a perspective from crustal xenoliths Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 J.L. Arce, G. Valdez, P. Schaaf, M.C. Macías-Romo, A. Vasquez-Serrano, J. Ramírez-Espinosa
The Sierra Chichinautzin Volcanic Field (SCVF) is constituted by diverse monogenetic volcanic structures with heterogeneous chemical composition. Dacitic magmas are widely distributed in this volca...
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Petrogenesis of Neoarchean granitic gneisses from the Daqishan area of the Dabie orogen and implications for the early crustal evolution of the Northern Yangtze Craton Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-03 Lingyao Kong, Xiang Xing, Qingsen Han, Hua Luo, Pan Guo, Xin Deng, Jun Wan, Chao Chen, Chengxin Liu
The Yangtze Craton is one of the crucial cratons constitued the eastern Asia continent. It is characterized by Archaean to Paleoproterozoic basement rocks, making it an excellent area to study the ...
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Exploring the tectono-magmatic evolution of intraoceanic fore-arc setting during subduction initiation: perspectives from trace and platinum group element systematics of the Jijal ultramafic arc system, NE Pakistan Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Tehseen Zafar, Hafiz Ur Rehman, Irfan Maqbool Bhat, Zaheen Ullah, Muhammad Farhan, Abiola Oyebamiji, Fatemeh Nouri, Fatemeh Spedibar, Shuguang Song, Zahid Hussain, Mubasir Ali, Cheng-Biao Leng, Chun-Feng Li, Mohamed S. Ahmed, Mabrouk Sami
The Jijal Complex is considered one of the largest Neo-Tethyan remnants in the intra-oceanic Cretaceous–Palaeogene Kohistan Arc of Pakistan. This complex largely consists of gabbros, peridotites, a...
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Tectonic stress around the South caspian basin deduced from earthquake focal mechanisms Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Ahad Nouri, Behnam Rahimi, Václav Vavryčuk, Farzin Ghaemi
In this paper, we study the tectonic stress around the South Caspian Basin (SCB), which includes the Kopeh Dagh, Alborz, Talesh, eastern Greater Caucasus mountain belts, the Apsheron sill, and the ...
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Spatio-temporal variations of Late Triassic granitic magmatism in the Lincang batholith and implications for post-collisional process along the Paleo-Tethys suture in SW China Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Chen Wang, Gang Li, Zheng-Hong Liu, Jun-Lai Liu, Zhong-Yuan Xu, Wen-Qing Li
The most striking Lincang granitic batholith widely distributed in the Sanjiang Paleo-Tethys Orogen provides us a crucial window to understand the subduction, consumption, and associated geodynamic...
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Crustal evolution of Paleozoic-Mesozoic granitoid in Dakrong-A Luoi area, Truong Son belt, central Vietnam: evidence from zircon U-Pb geochronology, geochemistry, and Hf isotope composition Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Nguyen Thi Dung, Tran Tuan Anh, Pham Trung Hieu, Pham Minh, Le Xuan Truong, Nguyen Trung Minh, Doan Dinh Hung
The Dakrong-A Luoi area is located in the South Truong Son belt in the Indochina block and has been affected by multiple stages of magmatic-metamorphic events. In this paper, Paleozoic-Mesozoic gra...
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Contrasting Cu mineralization styles across the Dananhu Arc, Eastern Tianshan: insights from the geochronology, geochemistry, and Sr–Nd–Hf isotopes of Carboniferous arc rocks Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Qinghui Yu, Yun Zhao, Chunji Xue, Xiaobo Zhao, Matthew J. Brzozowski
The tectonic regime is an important factor controlling the formation of ore deposits, and magmatic rocks generated in different tectonic regimes are characterized by contrasting ore affinities and ...
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Neoproterozoic granitoids of northwest Vietnam and their tectonic implications Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Ngo Xuan Dac, Asad Khan, Zaheen Ullah, Trinh Hai Son, Li Xiao Chun, Khuong The Hung, Guanzhong Shi, Duan Zhuang, Muhammad Farhan
A combined study of whole-rock geochemical and Sr-Nd isotopic data, and zircon U-Pb geochronological and Hf isotopes has been carried out for several Neoproterozoic intrusions, including the Lung T...
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Mayodia ophiolitic complex of Arunachal Pradesh, India: a multistage evolutionary record during the Tethyan closure Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Sankhadeep Roy, Biswajit Ghosh, Soumi Chattopadhaya, Debaditya Bandyopadhyay, Archisman Dhar, Manojit Koley, Tomoaki Morishita, Sachin Kumar Tripathi
The Mayodia ophiolitic complex of Arunachal Pradesh, India is a highly dismembered body located close to the Namche Barwa syntaxis. It structurally represents a klippe and consists dominantly of se...
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Geochemistry of the North Gondwana Paleozoic Araba and Naqus formation siliciclastics, Sinai: implications for provenance, paleoweathering, and tectonic setting Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-04 Mohammed Z. El-Bialy, Ahmed E. Shata
The Araba and Naqus formations in Ras Milan, Sinai, constitute part of the major continuous Paleozoic clastic belt stretching across northern Gondwana. They are sandstone-dominated successions, res...
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Lithium isotope fractionation in highly evolved granites and associated magmatic-hydrothermal process: the case of the Xintianling granites in the Nanling Range, South China Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-04 Xunfei Li, Zhiqiang Wang, Bin Chen, Chao Huang, Xiaoxia Duan
The highly evolved granites are closely associated with rare-metal mineralization. It is still debated whether the enrichment of rare metals is mainly controlled by magmatic or hydrothermal process...
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Sulphur in apatite: a potential monitor of the magmatic redox state in the world-class gold fields of the North China Craton Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Jia-Wei Liu, Lin Li, Sheng-Rong Li, M. Santosh, Mao-Wen Yuan, Masroor Alam, Shun-Feng Yan
The redox condition, a key parameter of mineralization, is one of the most difficult parameters to constrain precisely. Here we employ electron probe and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) to a...
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The Belingwe greenstone belt, Zimbabwe – some new age constraints and implications for greenstone belt evolution Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Axel Hofmann, Xian‐Hua Li, Dwight C. Bradley, Fabien Humbert
The Neoarchaean Belingwe greenstone belt of the Zimbabwe craton consists of a well-preserved succession of rocks of low metamorphic grade and low strain. We present new age constraints for the Ngez...
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Geochronology and geochemistry of the El Salvador plutonic complex (Sierra de Tamaulipas, NE Mexico): cenozoic tectonic implications of the eastern Mexican alkaline province Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Tomás A. Peña-Alonso, Isidro Loza-Aguirre, Fanis Abdullin, Juan A. Ramírez-Fernández, Juliana Estrada-Carmona, Federico Viera-Décida, Olvin Castellanos, Alexander Iriondo, Luigi Solari, Gilles Levresse
The El Salvador plutonic complex is a 9.2 km2 circular body within the Sierra de Tamaulipas, part of the Eastern Mexican Alkaline Province (EMAP). Three alkaline magmatic suites were identified fro...
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Geochronological and stratigraphical characterization of lower Jurassic tectonically-controlled felsic tuff ring volcanism in Northwestern Patagonia, Argentina Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-21 Agustín J. Stremel, Leonardo Benedini, Leonardo Strazzere, Daniel A. Gregori, Marcos E. Bahía, Mauro C. Geraldes, Cecilia Pavón Pivetta, Mercedes Barros, Anderson Costa dos Santos
The early Jurassic syn-rift phase generated a significant set of half-grabens, calderas, and pull-apart basins along the southwestern margin of South America. In particular, the Loncon Complex, loc...
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Geochemistry and geochronology of early Triassic tephra from SW China: implications for biological evolution and tectonics Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Guoqing Xiong, Qi Deng, Xi Zheng, Yong Dan, Xiaogang Li, Zhoujun Peng
Late Permian to middle Triassic volcanic activities were very strong, however, volcanic records in the early Triassic strata are less reported than those of the Permo-Triassic boundary and the Tria...
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Using detrital zircon systematics to trace the sediment sources of Jurassic uranium-bearing sandstones in the western Ordos Basin, China: implications for uranium exploration in a sedimentary basin Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Xiaochao Shu, Rui Tao, Deliang Li, Fanwei Meng
The Jurassic Zhiluo Formation in the western Ordos Basin is known for hosting economically significant sandstone-type uranium deposits. However, the understanding of sediment sources for this forma...
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Jurassic–cretaceous exhumation history of the Northern Qaidam Basin and its implications for Northeastern Qinghai–Tibet plateau tectonism: evidences from zircon fission track thermochronology Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Zirui Feng, Wanming Yuan, Zhidan Zhao, Guochen Dong, Xiaowei Li, Wenli Sun, Li Yang, Shujiong Hong, Mingming Zhao, Caixia Hu, Shiyu Li
Reconstructing the growth model of the Northeastern Qinghai–Tibet Plateau is of significant importance in understanding its tectonic evolution through time. We present 20 new zircon fission track d...
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Petrogenesis of early Paleozoic peraluminous A-type granites from southern China Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Zhen-Tao Song, Biao Liu, Wen-Tao Hong
Early Paleozoic A-type granites in South China are rare, and their petrogenesis is still highly debated. This study focuses on the controversial Epo pluton in the Wuyi-Yunkai Orogen and conducts pe...
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Devonian intrusions of southwestern New Brunswick, Canada: U-Pb geochronology, petrogenesis and genetic constraints on gold mineralization Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Hassan Heidarian, David R. Lentz, Kathleen G. Thorne, Christopher R. M. McFarlane
The Clarence Stream intrusion-related gold deposit is hosted within metasedimentary and metavolcanic sequences of the Ordovician Cookson and Silurian Mascarene groups that were intruded by several ...
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Extremely enriched lithospheric mantle–derived magmas in the central Lhasa Terrane, southern Tibet Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-07 Yutong Zhang, Feng Huang, Jifeng Xu, Han Liu, Mingjian Li, Yunchuan Zeng, Jing Hu, Mingda Lv, Xijun Liu
Plate tectonics plays a crucial role in the evolution of Earth’s continents and oceans. However, the impact of oceanic subduction and continental collision on the continental lithospheric mantle wi...
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Subduction and retreat of Permian oceanic plates in the East Kunlun Orogenic Belt: evidence from mafic-ultramafic intrusive rocks Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Chaobin Hu, Chengyou Feng, Meng Li, Xianfeng Zha, Xiaofeng Gao, Zikun Gao, Ming Li
The East Kunlun Orogenic Belt, an important part of the Central Orogenic Belt in China, preserved wealthy geological information for the tectonic evolution of the Proto- and Paleo-Tethys Ocean. Sev...
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History of western Tethys Ocean and the birth of the circum-mediterranean orogeny as reflected by source-to-sink relations Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Salvatore Critelli, Manuel Martín-Martín
A broad region of Mesozoic to Cenozoic tectonism along the western and central Circum-Mediterranean (CM) margins, from southern Spain (Betic Cordillera) to the northern Morocco (Rif) and Italy (Ape...
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Petrogenesis and tectonic implications of the carboniferous El Carmen Pluton, central Colombian Andes: insights from whole-rock and mineral geochemistry, in situ zircon Lu–Hf isotopes and U–Pb geochronology Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Eliselder Zapata-Cardona, Juan S. Hernández-González, July A. Quiceno-Colorado, Elvira C. Ruiz-Jiménez, Mario Moreno-Sánchez, Edwin Naranjo-Sierra, Luz Mary Toro-Toro, Jairo Rincón-Alape
During the initial stages of Pangea amalgamation in the Carboniferous period, the Rheic Ocean basin experienced subduction prompted by the convergence between Gondwana and Laurasia, culminating in ...
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Recently-discovered Bahçecik Au±Ag mineralization in the Eastern Pontides, Gümüşhane-NE Türkiye: geological and geochemical implications on the intermediate sulfidation epithermal deposit Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Mustafa Kemal Revan, Yılmaz Demir, İ̇brahim Uysal, Mustafa Özkan, Özcan Dumanlılar, Cüneyt Şen, Rasim Taylan Kara, Semi Hamzaçebİ, Deniz Göç, Dirk Müller, Mustafa Tokoğlu
Intermediate sulfidation epithermal deposits represent significant reservoirs of precious metals, playing a crucial role in global mining operations. The Anatolian Peninsula, predominantly characte...
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Genesis and tectonic setting of an Early Palaeozoic skarn in the East Kunlun Orogenic Belt, China: constraints from adakitic rocks and garnet megacrysts Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Lili Xu, Dengfeng He, Xianfeng Zha, Chaobin Hu, Zuochen Li, Meng Li, Xiaofeng Gao, Xianzhi Pei
The East Kunlun Orogenic Belt (E-KOB) in the northern Tibet Plateau has undergone a long multi-stage history of drifting, accretion, and collision of the Proto- and Palaeo-Tethyan oceans. It has be...
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Subduction, accretion, and collision in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Iberia: a tribute to the career of Antonio García-Casco Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 I.F. Blanco-Quintero, Y. Rojas-Agramonte, J.A. Proenza
Published in International Geology Review (Vol. 66, No. 1, 2024)
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Metamorphic and geochronological constraints on the final assembly of West Gondwana: an Ediacaran-Cambrian collisional setting in the northern Araguaia Orogen, central Brazil Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Gabriela Bueno Fagundes de Freitas, Vinícius Tieppo Meira, Caue Rodrigues Cioffi, Brenda Chung Rocha, George Luiz Luvizotto, Jeffrey Vervoort, Ricardo Ivan Ferreira da Trindade
The Araguaia Orogen, located in Central Brazil, represents an Ediacaran-Cambrian collisional orogen associated with the final assembly of West Gondwana. Two contrasting tectonic models have been pr...
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New U-Pb zircon geochronological data for Takestan magmatic rocks (Western Alborz) and their significance for the interpretation of Paleogene magmatism in Iran Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-10 Ali A. Sepahi, Batool Nemati, Abbas Asiabanha, David R. Lentz, Chris R. M. McFarlane
The Takestan area is in the western part of the Alborz magmatic arc. Magmatic rocks of the area consist of plutonic rocks (e.g. granitoids), effusive volcanic, and pyroclastic rocks. Using U-Pb zir...
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The role of high oxygen fugacity on genesis of the late Cenozoic Abaga basalts in Xilin Gol League, Inner Mongolia, China Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Jinheng Sun, Ni Li, Yongwei Zhao, Wanfeng Zhang, Jun Hu
The Abaga basalts, which erupted within an intraplate background in the late Cenozoic, are situated in eastern central Inner Mongolia. Previous studies have explored the genesis of these basalts, w...
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Apatite geochemical composition of Mesozoic granitoids in the eastern Jiangnan Orogen, S. China: insights into petrogenesis and intrinsic magmatic variables Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Chao Li, Jun Yan
The geochemical compositions of apatite are commonly used to provide reliable constraints on the intrinsic magmatic variables of the parental magma. There is a widespread distribution of Mesozoic g...
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Metamorphic P-T-t path of Triassic eclogite from the Rongcheng region, eastern China: implications for the tectonic evolution of Sulu orogenic belt Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Haozhong Zhu, Zhonghua Tian, Pinghua Liu, Wenyong Duan, Zhanghuang Ye
Interpretation and inversion of P-T (Pressure-Temperature) paths of high-pressure (HP) and ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) metamorphic rocks are critical to understanding the subduction and exhumation his...
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Origin and tectonic setting of middle–late Triassic Lalingzaohuo granitoids in the western East Kunlun Orogen, northern Tibetan Plateau Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Jing Chen, Bin Li, Jin-Xi Zhou
Triassic granitoids are widespread in the East Kunlun Orogen (EKO), with Middle Triassic granitoids being dominant and Late Triassic granitoids being subordinate. This paper presents new whole-rock...
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Origin of late Carboniferous highly fractionated high-K calc-alkaline I-type granites from the eastern Pontides (Şiran, northern Turkey) Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Gültekin Topuz, Orhan Yavuz, Osman Candan, Thomas Zack, Mutlu Özkan, Wolfgang Siebel
The Sakarya Zone (northern Turkey) is characterized by the emplacement of voluminous granitoids during the late Carboniferous. In this study, we present geological, U-Pb zircon age, elemental abund...
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Petrogenesis and rare-metal mineralization of the Ririwai alkaline granitoids, north-central Nigeria: mineralogical and geochemical constraints Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Vandi Dlama Kamaunji, Lian-Xun Wang, Wei Chen, Musa Bala Girei, Hafizullah Abba Ahmed, Yu-Xiang Zhu, Victor Ikechukwu Vincent, Liang Cao
The Ririwai anorogenic alkaline complex harbours extensive rare metal (Nb-Zr-Sn-Zn) mineralization. However, uncertainty still surrounds their origin and magmatic-hydrothermal processes responsible...
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Geochronology, provenance, and tectonic setting of the meta-sedimentary rocks from the North Shahrekord metamorphic Complex, Iran Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-26 Mahin Hashemi, Ali Reza Davoudian, Nahid Shabanian, John M. Cottle, Hossein Azizi, Yoshihiro Asahara
The meta-sedimentary rocks from the North Shahrekord metamorphic Complex (NSMC) comprise micaschists, paragneisses, quartz-feldspathic schists, and marbles. Detrital zircons from the paragneisses y...
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U-Pb zircon ages and Lu-Hf isotope systematics across northwestern Mexico: implications for Cretaceous to Paleocene tectonomagmatic evolution during Farallon subduction Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-26 Arlin B. Fonseca-Martínez, Alexander Iriondo, Scott E.K. Bennett, Fred W. McDowell, Carlos Ortega-Obregón
This study presents U-Pb zircon ages and Lu-Hf zircon isotope data for Cretaceous-Paleocene plutonic rocks along a W-E transect in northwestern Mexico. These data are combined with tectonic reconst...
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Zircon U-Pb geochronology and petrogenesis of Middle Eocene monzonitic plutons in NE Turkey: constraints for generation of post-collisional I-type shoshonitic magmas Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-25 İ̇rfan Temizel, Mehmet Arslan
We present U – Pb zircon geochronology and whole-rock Sr-Nd-Pb isotopic compositions of monzonitic plutons from NE Turkey to elucidate their genesis and provide significant insights into the genera...
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A late Neoarchean continental arc system in the northeastern North China Craton: constrain from the Guanghua mélange in the Tonghua area, southern Jilin Province Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-25 Shigang Zheng, Weimin Li, Yongjiang Liu, Wei Jin, Yingli Zhao, Tongjun Liu, Jinhui Gao, Tao Chen, Nwabueze Ekene Chibuike
The late Neoarchean tonalite – trondhjemite – granodiorite (TTG) and mafic rocks record essential information regarding the early tectonic evolution of the North China Craton, which is crucial for ...
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Subduction initiation of Paleo-Pacific Ocean and final closure of Paleo-Asian Ocean: constraints from Triassic granitoids in Jiamusi Block, NE China Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Wenjing Bai, Yu Dong, Wenchun Ge, Hao Yang, Junhui Bi, Chen Liu, Jielu Yu, Hongying Zhou, Zheng Ji
The process of transformation and superposition from the Paleo-Asian Ocean to the Paleo-Pacific Ocean tectonic systems have been a critical scientific issue. However, the final closure of the Paleo...
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The Elat Timna area, southern Israel: a unique geological window into 800 million years of geological evolution Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Michael Beyth, Ran Calvo
The Elat/Timna area in Southern Israel provides an unparalleled opportunity for geological field studies due to its unique geology, spanning from the Neoproterozoic to the Holocene. The well-expose...
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Nature of magma and ore-forming conditions at the Randu Kuning porphyry Cu-Au deposit, Indonesia: a comparative study with other Cu-Au deposits in the region Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-18 Arifudin Idrus, Cendi D. P. Dana, Lucas D. Setijadji, Sutarto, Ernowo, Grigorios A. Sakellaris, Theo van Leeuwen
The subduction-related Sunda-Banda arc hosts several giant and major Cu–Au–Mo porphyry and epithermal Au systems, making it one of the most important magmatic-related metallogenic belts in Indonesi...
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Petrogenesis of the U-rich Permian Akkulen syenite intrusion, Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan: insights into its magmatic evolution and geodynamic setting Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-12 Renke Wang, Xiaobo Zhao, Chunji Xue, Qing Sun, Reimar Seltmann, Nikolay Pak, David T.A. Symons, Guoxiong Ma, Yiwei Shi
Permian alkaline granitoids are widely distributed throughout the Tien Shan Orogen and adjacent region of the southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt. However, their petrogenesis and related tectonic ...
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Late Mesozoic tectonic affinity of the Tengchong Block and southward extension of the Bangong-Nujiang Suture: constraints from Early Cretaceous granitic rocks in western Yunnan, SW China Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-12 Chen Wang, Gang Li, Zheng-Hong Liu, Shi-Jie Wang, Xi Chen, Yu Gao, Nuo Zhang, Yu-Fei Xuan
The southward extension of the Bangong-Nujiang Suture and the late Mesozoic tectonic affinity of the Tengchong Block have been subject to debate, and the Early Cretaceous magmatism in the eastern T...
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How did submarine volcanic eruptions interact with organic matter to favour hydrocarbon generation in the Bohai Bay Basin, China? Int. Geol. Rev. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Chuanming Li, Jianhui Zeng, Shuning Liu, Yuyang Dong, Maoyun Wang
Based on the geological and geochemical analysis of volcanic rock and their surrounding rocks, combined with palaeontological data and hydrocarbon generation thermal simulation experiments, the mec...