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1.39 Ga mafic dyke swarm in southwestern Yilgarn Craton marks Nuna to Rodinia transition in the West Australian Craton

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1.6 Ga crustal thickening along the final Nuna suture

scholarly article

850–790 Ma bimodal volcanic and intrusive rocks in northern Zhejiang, South China: A major episode of continental rift magmatism during the breakup of Rodinia

scientific article published in April 2008

A Mesozoic Andean-type active continental margin along coastal South China: New geological records from the basement of the northern South China Sea

scientific article published in November 2021

A geodynamic framework for 2 billion years of tectonic evolution: From cratonic amalgamation to the age of supercontinent cycle

scientific article published on 15 May 2023

A model for the evolution of the Earth's mantle structure since the Early Paleozoic

scientific article published in 2010

A palaeogeographic context for Neoproterozoic glaciation

scientific article published in June 2009

A trans-Iapetus transform fault control for the evolution of the Rheic Ocean: Implications for an early Paleozoic transition of accretionary tectonics

scientific article published on 28 February 2022

Age and chemical composition of Archean metapelites in the Zhongxiang Complex and implications for early crustal evolution of the Yangtze Craton

scientific article published in November 2018

Age and origin of high Ba–Sr appinite–granites at the northwestern margin of the Tibet Plateau: Implications for early Paleozoic tectonic evolution of the Western Kunlun orogenic belt

scientific article published in January 2008

Age and origin of middle Neoproterozoic mafic magmatism in southern Yangtze Block and relevance to the break-up of Rodinia

scientific article published in August 2007

Age and paleomagnetism of the 1210Ma Gnowangerup–Fraser dyke swarm, Western Australia, and implications for late Mesoproterozoic paleogeography

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Amalgamation between the Yangtze and Cathaysia Blocks in South China: Constraints from SHRIMP U–Pb zircon ages, geochemistry and Nd–Hf isotopes of the Shuangxiwu volcanic rocks

scientific article published in October 2009

An early Paleoproterozoic high-K intrusive complex in southwestern Tarim Block, NW China: Age, geochemistry, and tectonic implications

scientific article published in August 2007

Archean geodynamics: Ephemeral supercontinents or long-lived supercratons

scientific article

Assembly, configuration, and break-up history of Rodinia: A synthesis

scientific article published in January 2008

Asthenosphere–lithosphere interaction triggered by a slab window during ridge subduction: Trace element and Sr–Nd–Hf–Os isotopic evidence from Late Carboniferous tholeiites in the western Junggar area (NW China)

Author Correction: Global geochemical fingerprinting of plume intensity suggests coupling with the supercontinent cycle

scientific article published on 05 June 2020

Basin redox and primary productivity within the Mesoproterozoic Roper Seaway

scholarly article

Breakup of Rodinia

scientific article published in 2011

Ca. 1.5Ga mafic magmatism in South China during the break-up of the supercontinent Nuna/Columbia: The Zhuqing Fe–Ti–V oxide ore-bearing mafic intrusions in western Yangtze Block

scientific article published in May 2013

Ca. 825 Ma komatiitic basalts in South China: First evidence for >1500 °C mantle melts by a Rodinian mantle plume

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Climatic and tectonic controls on Late Triassic to Middle Jurassic sedimentation in northeastern Guangdong Province, South China

scientific article published in May 2016

Closing the “North American Magmatic” Gap: Crustal evolution of the Clearwater Block from multi-isotope and trace element zircon data

scientific article published in February 2022

Continental flood basalt weathering as a trigger for Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth

scientific article

Corrigendum to “Post-kinematic lithospheric delamination of the Wuyi–Yunkai orogen in South China: Evidence from ca. 435 Ma high-Mg basalts” [Lithos 154 (2012) 115–129]

scientific article published in November 2014

Coupled supercontinent–mantle plume events evidenced by oceanic plume record

scientific article published on 22 November 2019

Cr-spinel records metasomatism not petrogenesis of mantle rocks

scientific article published on 08 November 2019

Decoding earth's plate tectonic history using sparse geochemical data

scientific article published in 2020

Decoupling between Oxygen and Radiogenic Isotopes: Evidence for Generation of Juvenile Continental Crust by Partial Melting of Subducted Oceanic Crust

scientific article published in October 2021

Detrital provenance evolution of the Ediacaran–Silurian Nanhua foreland basin, South China

scientific article published in December 2015

Detrital zircon U–Pb age and Hf isotope constrains on the generation and reworking of Precambrian continental crust in the Cathaysia Block, South China: A synthesis

scientific article

Detrital zircon U–Pb and Hf signatures of Paleo-Mesoproterozoic strata in the Priest River region, northwestern USA: A record of Laurentia assembly and Nuna tenure

scientific article published in December 2021

Detrital zircon U–Pb geochronology, Hf isotopes and geochemistry constraints on crustal growth and Mesozoic tectonics of southeastern China

scientific article published in June 2015

Dike Magmatism in the Evolution of the Transform Active Continental Margin of the Siberian Craton in the Ediacaran

scientific article published in November 2019

Distinct formation history for deep-mantle domains reflected in geochemical differences

scientific article

Diverse Permian magmatism in the Tarim Block, NW China: Genetically linked to the Permian Tarim mantle plume?

scientific article published in October 2010

Do Supercontinent-Superplume Cycles Control the Growth and Evolution of Continental Crust?

scientific article published on 27 October 2020

Early Ediacaran Magmatism in the Yenisei Ridge and Evolution of the Southwestern Margin of the Siberian Craton

scientific article published on 23 June 2020

Early Late Cretaceous (ca. 93Ma) norites and hornblendites in the Milin area, eastern Gangdese: Lithosphere–asthenosphere interaction during slab roll-back and an insight into early Late Cretaceous (ca. 100–80Ma) magmatic “flare-up” in southe

scientific article published in July 2013

Early Mesozoic ferroan (A-type) and magnesian granitoids in eastern South China: Tracing the influence of flat-slab subduction at the western Pacific margin

scientific article published in January 2016

Early crustal evolution of the Yangtze Craton, South China: New constraints from zircon U-Pb-Hf isotopes and geochemistry of ca. 2.9–2.6 Ga granitic rocks in the Zhongxiang Complex

scientific article published in September 2018

Early differentiation of the bulk silicate Earth as recorded by the oldest mantle reservoir

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Early history of the eastern Sibao Orogen (South China) during the assembly of Rodinia: New mica 40Ar/39Ar dating and SHRIMP U–Pb detrital zircon provenance constraints

Eocene north–south trending dikes in central Tibet: New constraints on the timing of east–west extension with implications for early plateau uplift?

Episodic Precambrian crust growth: Evidence from U–Pb ages and Hf–O isotopes of zircon in the Nanhua Basin, central South China

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First Precambrian palaeomagnetic data from the Mawson Craton (East Antarctica) and tectonic implications

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

First evidence of Archean mafic dykes at 2.62 Ga in the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: Links to cratonisation and the Zimbabwe Craton

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Formation of juvenile continental crust in northern Nubian Shield: New evidence from granitic zircon U-Pb-Hf-O isotopes

scientific article published in September 2022

Formation of mantle “lone plumes” in the global downwelling zone — A multiscale modelling of subduction-controlled plume generation beneath the South China Sea

scientific article published in January 2018

Formation of the Jurassic South China Large Granitic Province: Insights from the genesis of the Jiufeng pluton

scientific article published in April 2015

Fresh water on Earth four billion years ago

scientific article published on 8 March 2024

From Rodinia to Pangea: an extroversion process driven first by plume push followed by downwelling pull, absorption and merging

scientific article published on 23 March 2020

Genesis of the 1.21 Ga Marnda Moorn large igneous province by plume–lithosphere interaction

scientific article published in February 2014

Geochemical and Hf–Nd isotope data of Nanhua rift sedimentary and volcaniclastic rocks indicate a Neoproterozoic continental flood basalt provenance

article by Xuan-Ce Wang et al published December 2011 in Lithos

Geochemical evidence for a widespread mantle re-enrichment 3.2 billion years ago: implications for global-scale plate tectonics

scientific article published on 11 June 2020

Geochemical fingerprinting of continental and oceanic basalts: A machine learning approach

scientific article published in October 2022

Geochronological and geochemical results from Mesozoic basalts in southern South China Block support the flat-slab subduction model

scientific article published in February 2012

Geochronology and geochemistry of Late Paleozoic magmatic rocks in the Lamasu–Dabate area, northwestern Tianshan (west China): Evidence for a tectonic transition from arc to post-collisional setting

scholarly article

Global geochemical fingerprinting of plume intensity suggests coupling with the supercontinent cycle

scientific article published on 21 November 2019

Harmonic hierarchy of mantle and lithospheric convective cycles: Time series analysis of hafnium isotopes of zircon

scientific article

Identification of an ancient mantle reservoir and young recycled materials in the source region of a young mantle plume: Implications for potential linkages between plume and plate tectonics

scholarly article

In situ U-Pb geochronology and geochemistry of a 1.13 Ga mafic dyke suite at Bunger Hills, East Antarctica: The end of the Albany-Fraser Orogeny

scholarly article by J. Camilla Stark et al published June 2018 in Precambrian Research

Indian-derived sediments deposited in Australia during Gondwana assembly

scientific article published in July 2018

Intraplate crustal remelting as the genesis of Jurassic high-K granites in the coastal region of the Guangdong Province, SE China

scientific article published in September 2013

Kerguelen carbonatite tuff sourced from deep recycled material

scientific article published in November 2023

Late Carboniferous high εNd(t)–εHf(t) granitoids, enclaves and dikes in western Junggar, NW China: Ridge-subduction-related magmatism and crustal growth

Late Cretaceous (100–89Ma) magnesian charnockites with adakitic affinities in the Milin area, eastern Gangdese: Partial melting of subducted oceanic crust and implications for crustal growth in southern Tibet

scientific article published in August 2013

Late Cretaceous (ca. 90Ma) adakitic intrusive rocks in the Kelu area, Gangdese Belt (southern Tibet): Slab melting and implications for Cu–Au mineralization

scientific article published in July 2012

Late Early Cretaceous adakitic granitoids and associated magnesian and potassium‐rich mafic enclaves and dikes in the Tunchang–Fengmu area, Hainan Province (South China): Partial melting of lower crust and mantle, and magma hybridization

scholarly article

Late Triassic high-Mg andesite/dacite suites from northern Hohxil, North Tibet: Geochronology, geochemical characteristics, petrogenetic processes and tectonic implications

Late Triassic melting of a thickened crust in southeastern China: Evidence for flat-slab subduction of the Paleo-Pacific plate

scientific article published in September 2013

Laurentian crust in northeast Australia: Implications for the assembly of the supercontinent Nuna

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Long-lived connection between the North China and North Australian cratons in supercontinent Nuna: paleomagnetic and geological constraints

scientific article

Magmatic switch-on and switch-off along the South China continental margin since the Permian: Transition from an Andean-type to a Western Pacific-type plate boundary

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Mesoproterozoic paleogeography: Supercontinent and beyond

Metasomatized lithosphere–asthenosphere interaction during slab roll-back: Evidence from Late Carboniferous gabbros in the Luotuogou area, Central Tianshan

Middle Cambrian granites in the Dunhuang Block (NW China) mark the early subduction of the southernmost Paleo-Asian Ocean

scientific article published in November 2020

Middle Neoproterozoic syn-rifting volcanic rocks in Guangfeng, South China: petrogenesis and tectonic significance

scientific article published on 8 April 2008

Mutual complement between statistical and neural network approaches for rock magnetism data analysis

scientific article published in August 2009

Neoproterozoic glaciations in a revised global palaeogeography from the breakup of Rodinia to the assembly of Gondwanaland

scientific article

Neoproterozoic mafic dyke swarms at the northern margin of the Tarim Block, NW China: Age, geochemistry, petrogenesis and tectonic implications

scientific article published in June 2009

Newly identified 1.89 Ga mafic dyke swarm in the Archean Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia suggests a connection with India

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Obduction-type granites within the NE Jiangxi Ophiolite: Implications for the final amalgamation between the Yangtze and Cathaysia Blocks

scientific article published in April 2008

Oceanic and super-deep continental diamonds share a transition zone origin and mantle plume transportation

scientific article published on 20 August 2021

Onset of the Earth’s hydrological cycle four billion years ago or earlier

scientific article published in June 2024

Origin of arc magmatic signature: A temperature-dependent process for trace element (re)-mobilization in subduction zones

scientific article published on 08 May 2019

Palaeomagnetism and geochronology of mid-Neoproterozoic Yanbian dykes, South China: implications for a c. 820–800 Ma true polar wander event and the reconstruction of Rodinia

scientific article published on 10 December 2015

Palaeomagnetism of the 1.89 Ga Boonadgin dykes of the Yilgarn Craton: Possible connection with India

scientific article

Paleo- to Mesoproterozoic magmatic and tectonic evolution of the southwestern Yangtze Block, south China: New constraints from ca. 1.7–1.5 Ga mafic rocks in the Huili-Dongchuan area

scientific article published in November 2020

Paleogene post-collisional lamprophyres in western Yunnan, western Yangtze Craton: Mantle source and tectonic implications

Paleogeographic record of Eocene Farallon slab rollback beneath western North America: COMMENT

scholarly article

Paleomagnetic constraints on the duration of the Australia-Laurentia connection in the core of the Nuna supercontinent

scientific article

Pannotia: in defence of its existence and geodynamic significance

scholarly article by J. Brendan Murphy et al published 15 July 2020 in Geological Society Special Publication

Petrogenesis of early Jurassic basalts in southern Jiangxi Province, South China: Implications for the thermal state of the Mesozoic mantle beneath South China

scientific article published in July 2016

Petrogenesis of the Early Eocene adakitic rocks in the Napuri area, southern Lhasa: Partial melting of thickened lower crust during slab break-off and implications for crustal thickening in southern Tibet

scientific article published in May 2014

Petrology, geochronology and geochemistry of ca. 780Ma A-type granites in South China: Petrogenesis and implications for crustal growth during the breakup of the supercontinent Rodinia

scientific article published in April 2010

Pitfalls in using the geochronological information from the EarthChem Portal for Precambrian time-series analysis

scientific article published in February 2022

Pliocene-Quaternary crustal melting in central and northern Tibet and insights into crustal flow.

scientific article published on 16 June 2016

Poly-phase metamorphism of garnet-bearing mafic granulite from the Larsemann Hills, East Antarctica: P-T path, U-Pb ages and tectonic implications

scientific article published in June 2019

Position of South China and Indochina along northern Gondwana margin during the Ediacaran–Silurian period

scientific article published in September 2022

Post-250 Ma thermal evolution of the central Cathaysia Block (SE China) in response to flat-slab subduction at the proto-Western Pacific margin

scientific article published in 2019

Post-collisional magmatism in NE Australia during Mesoproterozoic supercontinent Nuna: Insights from new zircon U Pb and Lu Hf data

scientific article published in 2022

Pre-Alpine contrasting tectono-metamorphic evolutions within the Southern Steep Belt, Central Alps

scientific article published in June 2018

Pre-Rodinia supercontinent Nuna shaping up: A global synthesis with new paleomagnetic results from North China

scientific article published in November 2012

Precambrian evolution and cratonization of the Tarim Block, NW China: Petrology, geochemistry, Nd-isotopes and U–Pb zircon geochronology from Archaean gabbro-TTG–potassic granite suite and Paleoproterozoic metamorphic belt

scientific article published in March 2012

Proterozoic tectonics of Hainan Island in supercontinent cycles: New insights from geochronological and isotopic results

scientific article published in March 2017

Recalibrating Rodinian rifting in the northwestern United States

scientific article

Recycling oceanic crust for continental crustal growth: Sr–Nd–Hf isotope evidence from granitoids in the western Junggar region, NW China

Reply to Comment by Steinberger on 'Will Earth's next supercontinent assemble through the closure of the Pacific Ocean?'

scientific article published in December 2022

Revisiting Mesozoic felsic intrusions in eastern South China: spatial and temporal variations and tectonic significance

scientific article published in December 2017

Ridge subduction and crustal growth in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Evidence from Late Carboniferous adakites and high-Mg diorites in the western Junggar region, northern Xinjiang (west China)

scholarly article

SIMS zircon U–Pb ages, geochemistry and Nd–Hf isotopes of ca. 1.0Ga mafic dykes and volcanic rocks in the Huili area, SW China: Origin and tectonic significance

scientific article published in February 2016

Seismic reflection data support episodic and simultaneous growth of the Tibetan Plateau since 25 Myr.

scientific article

Stratigraphic evolution of a Late Triassic to Early Jurassic intracontinental basin in southeastern South China: A consequence of flat-slab subduction?

scientific article published in April 2014

Subduction of Indian continent beneath southern Tibet in the latest Eocene (~ 35 Ma): Insights from the Quguosha gabbros in southern Lhasa block

scientific article published in January 2017

Supercontinent–superplume coupling, true polar wander and plume mobility: Plate dominance in whole-mantle tectonics

scientific article published in October 2009

Syn-collisional magmatic record of Indian steep subduction by 50 Ma

scholarly article

TTG generation by fluid-fluxed crustal melting: Direct evidence from the Proterozoic Georgetown Inlier, NE Australia

scientific article

Tectonic evolution, magmatism and metallogeny of the South China Craton — An introduction

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Tectonostratigraphic history of the Ediacaran–Silurian Nanhua foreland basin in South China

scientific article published in April 2016

Tectonostratigraphy and provenance analysis to define the edge and evolution of the eastern Wuyi-Yunkai orogen, South China

scientific article published on 2 October 2017

Temperature, Pressure, and Composition of the Mantle Source Region of Late Cenozoic Basalts in Hainan Island, SE Asia: a Consequence of a Young Thermal Mantle Plume close to Subduction Zones?

scientific article published on 13 December 2011

The Early Permian active continental margin and crustal growth of the Cathaysia Block: In situ U–Pb, Lu–Hf and O isotope analyses of detrital zircons

scholarly article

The South China and Indochina neighborhood in the assembled Gondwana

scientific article published on 23 March 2020

The Willouran basic province of South Australia: Its relation to the Guibei large igneous province in South China and the breakup of Rodinia

scientific article published in October 2010

The amalgamation of Pangea: Paleomagnetic and geological observations revisited

scientific article published on 24 July 2020

The dominant driving force for supercontinent breakup: Plume push or subduction retreat?

scientific article published in July 2018

The largest plagiogranite on Earth formed by re-melting of juvenile proto-continental crust

scholarly article

The magnificent seven: A proposal for modest revision of the quality index

The oldest known rocks in south–western China: SHRIMP U–Pb magmatic crystallisation age and detrital provenance analysis of the Paleoproterozoic Dahongshan Group

scientific article published in August 2008

The supercontinent cycle

scientific article

Thermochronological record of Middle–Late Jurassic magmatic reheating to Eocene rift-related rapid cooling in the SE South China Block

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Thermochronology of the Sulu ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic terrane: Implications for continental collision and lithospheric thinning

scientific article

Trading partners: Tectonic ancestry of southern Africa and western Australia, in Archean supercratons Vaalbara and Zimgarn

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Transition from oceanic to continental lithosphere subduction in southern Tibet: Evidence from the Late Cretaceous–Early Oligocene (~91–30Ma) intrusive rocks in the Chanang–Zedong area, southern Gangdese

Trial by fire: Testing the paleolongitude of Pangea of competing reference frames with the African LLSVP

scientific article published in July 2020

Two-stage crustal growth in the Arabian-Nubian shield: Initial arc accretion followed by plume-induced crustal reworking

scientific article published in July 2021

Variable involvements of mantle plumes in the genesis of mid-Neoproterozoic basaltic rocks in South China: A review

scientific article published in June 2009

Was there a Cambrian ocean in South China? – Insight from detrital provenance analyses

scientific article published on 18 July 2014

Weak orogenic lithosphere guides the pattern of plume-triggered supercontinent break-up

scientific article published on 19 November 2020

Will Earth's next supercontinent assemble through the closure of the Pacific Ocean?

scientific article published in December 2022

Zircon SHRIMP U–Pb geochronology of potassic felsic intrusions in western Yunnan, SW China: Constraints on the relationship of magmatism to the Jinsha suture

scientific article published in September 2012

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