Paleogeography of the Southern Tarim Terrane Revealed by Neoproterozoic Mafic Dyke Swarm in Altyn
Geochemistry, Geophysics, GeosystemsUsing high‐resolution remote sensing images and detailed field investigations, this study provides the spatiotemporal distribution and geometry of the Neoproterozoic giant mafic dyke swarm in the southeastern Tarim Craton, which is crucial for ...
Xian‐Tao Ye +5 more
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Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 1-26., 2021 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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A Thermo‐Compositional Model of the Cratonic Lithosphere of South America
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2021 New seismic data on the crust and upper mantle of South America have recently become available and describe its deep structure with unprecedented resolution.
N.‐P. Finger +5 more
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Minerals, 2023 A synthesis of the evolution of the Neoproterozoic belts or orogens surrounding the São Francisco craton (SFC) in northeastern and southeastern Brazil is presented.
A. Uhlein +3 more
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Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2022 Constraints on the structure of cratonic lithosphere are essential to improve our understanding of craton formation, evolution and long‐term stability.
Isabella Altoe +2 more
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Terra Nova, 2020 Records of Earth's primitive crust are scarce. Eoarchean (older than 3.6 Ga) banded mafic to felsic gneisses have been discovered in the São Francisco Craton, Brazil, pushing back by over 100 million years the oldest gneisses known to date in South ...
E. Oliveira +3 more
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Tectonic overview of the West Gondwana margin [PDF]
, 2008 The oceanic southern margin of Gondwana, from southern South America through South Africa, West Antarctica, New Zealand (in its pre break-up position), and Victoria Land to Eastern Australia is one of the longest and longest-lived active continental ...
Pankhurst, Robert J., Vaughan, Alan P.M.
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Geology, 2022 The Chapada Diamantina region in the São Francisco craton of eastern Brazil is composed of sedimentary successions containing both Mesoproterozoic and Neoproterozoic carbonate levels, making it a key natural laboratory for understanding the fluctuations ...
F. Caxito +6 more
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Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 137-165., 2020 This book is Open Access. A digital copy can be downloaded for free from Wiley Online Library.
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 ...
Konstantin Litasov +3 more
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Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2003 The Passa Tempo Metamorphic Complex is one of several metamorphic complexes that form the Archean sialic crust of the southern São Francisco Craton. It encompasses hypersthene-bearing gneissic rocks, with subordinateNW- or EW-trending mafic-ultramafic ...
José C.S. Campos +2 more
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