Peter A. Cawood

TL;DR: In this paper, a mantle plume model is proposed for the formation and evolution of Late Archean basement rocks in the Eastern and Western Blocks based on a combination of extensive exposure of TTG gneisses, affinities of mafic rocks to continental tholeiitic basalts, presence of voluminous komatiitic rocks, dominant diaprism-related domiform structures, anticlockwise P-T paths, and a short time span from the primary emplacement of the TTG and ultramafic-to-maf

TL;DR: The existence of a supercontinent existing before Rodinia, referred to herein as Columbia, a name recently proposed by Rogers and Santosh [Gondwana Res. 5 (2002) 5] for a Paleo-Mesoproterozoic super-continent, was confirmed by available lithostratigraphic, tectonothermal, geochronological and paleomagnetic data as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a model for the origin of the 2.55-2.50-Ga metamorphic pulse in the North China Craton (NCC), which is interpreted as a major phase of juvenile crustal growth in the craton.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use the difference between the measured crystallization ages (CA) of individual zircon grains present in the sediment and the depositional age (DA) of the sedi-ment to constrain the tectonic setting in which the sediment was deposited.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors classify orogens into retreating and advancing types, based on their kinematic framework and resulting geological character, including the supra-subduction zone forearc, magmatic arc and back-arc components.