Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact
An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
Richard E. Ernst +8 more
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Pressure‐Induced sp 2 ‐sp 3 Transitions in Carbon‐Bearing Phases
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Explores the behavior of carbon in minerals, melts, and fluids under extreme conditions
Carbon trapped in diamonds and carbonate-bearing rocks in subduction zones are examples of the continuing exchange of substantial carbon ...
Sergey S. Lobanov +1 more
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Multistage origin of dunite in the Purang ophiolite, southern Tibet, documented by composition, exsolution and Li isotope characteristics of constituent minerals [PDF]
The Purang ophiolite, which crops out over an area of about 650 km2 in the western Yarlung–Zangbo suture zone, consists chiefly of mantle peridotite, pyroxenite and gabbro.
F. Xiong +6 more
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Remote sensing methods are a vital alternative for regional exploration surveys. Many ore deposits (e.g., epithermal, porphyry-related, volcanogenic massive sulphides, etc.) have distinct distribution patterns of alteration zones that can be used for ...
Wanduku Tende Andongma +5 more
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A discovery of extremely REE-rich kimberlites: A possible new type of REE-deposit
Two newly discovered Mesozoic Group II kimberlites in the southeastern margin of North China Craton show extremely high ΣREE contents (ranging from 1046 to 1869 ppm), which also higher than the nearby Weishan carbonatite and other REE-bearing rocks in ...
Qi Hou +5 more
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First discovery of gold in kimberlite in Xuzhou, Northern Jiangsu Province
Several individual particle native golds were observed in two Mesozoic Group II kimberlites dikes in the southeastern margin of North China Craton (NCC).
Qi Hou +5 more
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Two new minerals, badengzhuite, TiP, and zhiqinite, TiSi2, from the Cr-11 chromitite orebody, Luobusa ophiolite, Tibet, China: is this evidence for super-reduced mantle-derived fluids? [PDF]
Titanium minerals enclosed in corundum separated from the Cr-11 orebody include native Ti, zamboite (FeTiSi2), osbornite (TiN)-khamrabaevite (TiC) solid solutions, and jingsuiite (TiB2), as well as the new minerals badengzhuite (TiP) and zhiqinite (TiSi2)
F. Xiong +10 more
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The Paleocene‐Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM; ∼56 Ma)–a geologically rapid carbon‐release event similar to anthropogenic carbon emissions–is ideal for investigating weathering responses to rapid carbon release and associated climate change.
Zuoling Chen +7 more
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The Cameroon Volcanic Line (CVL) of west Africa poses many challenges to common models of mantle processes and volcanic system genesis. Although the CVL superficially resembles the hot-spot trace of a mantle plume, there is no evidence for age ...
Aubreya Adams
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The geology of southern New England reflects subduction and terrane accretion during the Appalachian Orogeny and rifting during the breakup of Pangea.
Ethan Lopes +3 more
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