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A Case for Delamination of the Deep Batholithic Crust beneath the Sierra Nevada, California

scientific article published in January 1998

A MASH Zone Revealed: the Mafic Complex of the Sierra Valle Fértil

scholarly article

A zircon petrochronologic view on granitoids and continental evolution

scientific article

Active foundering of a continental arc root beneath the southern Sierra Nevada in California

scientific article published in September 2004

Age and geochemistry of western Hoh-Xil–Songpan-Ganzi granitoids, northern Tibet: Implications for the Mesozoic closure of the Paleo-Tethys ocean

scholarly article by Li-Yun Zhang et al published March 2014 in Lithos

Andean surface uplift constrained by radiogenic isotopes of arc lavas

scientific article published on 6 March 2018

Arc composition at mid-crustal depths: Insights from the Coast Ridge Belt, Santa Lucia Mountains, California

scientific article published in July 2003

Archean, highly unradiogenic lead in shallow cratonic mantle

scientific article published on 27 March 2020

Arclogites and their role in continental evolution; Part 1: Background, locations, petrography, geochemistry, chronology and thermobarometry

scholarly article published 2 September 2020

Arclogites and their role in continental evolution; part 1: Background, locations, petrography, geochemistry, chronology and thermobarometry

scientific article

Assembling the world’s type shallow subduction complex: Detrital zircon geochronologic constraints on the origin of the Nacimiento block, central California Coast Ranges

scientific article published on 29 February 2016

Birth, life, and demise of the Andean-syn-collisional Gissar arc: Late Paleozoic tectono-magmatic-metamorphic evolution of the southwestern Tian Shan, Tajikistan

scholarly article by James R. Worthington et al published October 2017 in Tectonics

Building the Pamirs: The view from the underside

scholarly article

Buoyancy sources for a large, unrooted mountain range, the Sierra Nevada, California: Evidence from xenolith thermobarometry

scientific article published on 10 April 1996

Can in situ measurements of mantle electrical conductivity be used to infer properties of partial melts?

scientific article

Carbonated sediment recycling and its contribution to lithospheric refertilization under the northern North China Craton

scholarly article

Carpathian‐Pannonian Magmatism Database

scientific article published in 2021

Characterization of the crust of the Coast Mountains Batholith, British Columbia, from P to S converted seismic waves and petrologic modeling

scientific article published in January 2010

Chronology of pluton emplacement and regional deformation in the southern Sierra Nevada batholith, California ⬇️

scientific article published in 2008

Constraints on plateau architecture and assembly from deep crustal xenoliths, northern Altiplano (SE Peru)

scientific article published on 10 June 2015

Constraints on the bulk composition and root foundering rates of continental arcs: A California arc perspective

scientific article published in November 2002

Cyclical orogenic processes in the Cenozoic central Andes

Cyclicity in Cordilleran orogenic systems

Detrital zircon and isotopic constraints on the crustal architecture and tectonic evolution of the northeastern Pamir

article by Alexander C. Robinson et al published April 2012 in Tectonics

Diapirism of carbonate platforms subducted into the upper mantle

scholarly article

Early arc development recorded in Permian–Triassic plutons of the northern Mojave Desert region, California, USA

scientific article published on 27 November 2018

Elemental and Isotopic Evidence for Granitoid Genesis From Deep-Seated Sources in the Coast Mountains Batholith, British Columbia

Evolution of the Sibişel Shear Zone (South Carpathians): A study of its type locality near Răşinari (Romania) and tectonic implications

scientific article published in 2016

Fingerprinting orogenic delamination

scholarly article

Foundering-driven lithospheric melting: The source of central Andean mafic lavas on the Puna Plateau (22°S–27°S)

scientific article

Generation of Tonalitic and Dioritic Magmas by Coupled Partial Melting of Gabbroic and Metasedimentary Rocks within the Deep Crust of the Famatinian Magmatic Arc, Argentina

article

Geochemical characteristics of crustal anatexis during the formation of migmatite at the Southern Sierra Nevada, California

scientific article published on 5 October 2005

Geochemical evidence of a near-surface history for source rocks of the central Coast Mountains Batholith, British Columbia

scientific article published on 18 June 2009

Geochemical evidences for quantifying crustal thickness over time in the Urumieh-Dokhtar magmatic arc (Iran)

scientific article published in November 2020

Geodynamic models of Cordilleran orogens: Gravitational instability of magmatic arc roots

scientific article published in 2015

High temperatures and inverted metamorphism in the schist of Sierra de Salinas, California

scientific article published in January 2006

Igniting flare-up events in Cordilleran arcs

scholarly article

Imaging a magma plumbing system from MASH zone to magma reservoir

scholarly article by Jonathan R. Delph et al published January 2017 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

In search for the missing arc root of the Southern California Batholith: P-T-t evolution of upper mantle xenoliths of the Colorado Plateau Transition Zone

scientific article published in October 2020

Influence of pre-Andean crustal structure on Cenozoic thrust belt kinematics and shortening magnitude: Northwestern Argentina

article

Initial Rifting of the Lhasa Terrane from Gondwana: Insights From the Permian (~262 Ma) Amphibole‐Rich Lithospheric Mantle‐Derived Yawa Basanitic Intrusions in Southern Tibet

scientific article

Interaction Among Magmas from Various Sources and Crustal Melting Processes During Continental Collision: Insights from the Huayang Intrusive Complex of the South Qinling Belt, China

scientific article published in April 2018

Late Cambrian–Ordovician northeastern Gondwanan terranes in the basement of the Apuseni Mountains, Romania

scientific article published in 2010

Late Cretaceous Construction of the Mantle Lithosphere Beneath the Central California Coast Revealed by Crystal Knob Xenoliths

scholarly article by Daven P. Quinn et al published September 2018 in G3: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Late Cretaceous gravitational collapse of the southern Sierra Nevada batholith, California

scientific article published in 2012

Lithospheric architecture and tectonic evolution of the southwestern U.S. Cordillera: Constraints from zircon Hf and O isotopic data

scholarly article

Lithospheric mantle duplex beneath the central Mojave Desert revealed by xenoliths from Dish Hill, California

scientific article

Lower Cretaceous Provenance and Sedimentary Deposition in the Eastern Carpathians: Inferences for the Evolution of the Subducted Oceanic Domain and its European Passive Continental Margin

scientific article published in 2020

Mafic volcanism on the Puna Plateau, NW Argentina: Implications for lithospheric composition and evolution with an emphasis on lithospheric foundering

article

Magmatic evolution of a Cordilleran flare-up and its role in the creation of silicic crust

scientific article published on 22 August 2017

Major Miocene exhumation by fault-propagation folding within a metamorphosed, early Paleozoic thrust belt: Northwestern Argentina

article

Mantle-drip magmatism beneath the Altiplano-Puna plateau, central Andes

scholarly article

Marshallsussmanite, NaCaMnSi3O8(OH), a new pectolite-group mineral providing insight into hydrogen bonding in pyroxenoids

scientific article published in 2021

Microaerophilic Fe-oxidizing micro-organisms in Middle Jurassic ferruginous stromatolites and the paleoenvironmental context of their formation (Southern Carpathians, Romania)

scientific article published on 15 January 2020

Near-Ultrahigh Pressure Processing of Continental Crust: Miocene Crustal Xenoliths from the Pamir

Neoproterozoic I-type and highly fractionated A-type granites in the Yili Block, Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Petrogenesis and tectonic implications

Neotethyan Subduction Ignited the Iran Arc and Backarc Differently

scientific article

Net Dextral Slip, Neogene San Gregorio-Hosgri Fault Zone, Coastal California: Geologic Evidence and Tectonic Implications ⬇️

New Timing and Depth Constraints for the Catalina Metamorphic Core Complex, Southeast Arizona

scientific article published in 2020

Origin of High Mountains in the Continents: The Southern Sierra Nevada

scientific article published in Science

Paleo-Asian Oceanic slab under the North China Craton revealed by carbonatites derived from subducted limestones: REPLY

article

Paleo-Asian oceanic slab under the North China craton revealed by carbonatites derived from subducted limestones

article

Pluton assembly and the genesis of granitic magmas: Insights from the GIC pluton in cross section, Sierra Nevada Batholith, California

scholarly article in American Mineralogist, vol. 99 no. 7, July 2014

Preface and Acknowledgments

Preliminary stratigraphic and structural architecture of Bhutan: Implications for the along strike architecture of the Himalayan system

scientific article published in July 2008

Production and loss of high-density batholithic root, southern Sierra Nevada, California

scientific article published on 18 November 2003

Project combines seismic and magnetotelluric surveying to address the Sierran root question

article

Quantifying Crustal Thickness in Continental Collisional Belts: Global Perspective and a Geologic Application

scientific article

Quantifying crustal thickness over time in magmatic arcs

scientific article

Quaternary Volcanism in Myanmar: A Record of Indian Slab Tearing in a Transition Zone From Oceanic to Continental Subduction

scholarly article

RESEARCH FOCUS: Understanding continental subduction: A work in progress

scientific article

Role of extrusion of the Rand and Sierra de Salinas schists in Late Cretaceous extension and rotation of the southern Sierra Nevada and vicinity

scientific article published on 15 September 2010

Sediment underthrusting within a continental magmatic arc: Coast Mountains batholith, British Columbia

scholarly article by David M. Pearson et al published October 2017 in Tectonics

Shear heating not a cause of inverted metamorphism

scholarly article

Significant Zr isotope variations in single zircon grains recording magma evolution history

scientific article published on 18 August 2020

Similarities between Archean high MgO eclogites and Phanerozoic arc-eclogite cumulates and the role of arcs in Archean continent formation

scientific article published in April 2007

Southern Tibetan Oligocene–Miocene adakites: A record of Indian slab tearing

Spatial and temporal radiogenic isotopic trends of magmatism in Cordilleran orogens

scientific article published in August 2017

Sub-magmatic arc underplating by trench and forearc materials in shallow subduction systems; A geologic perspective and implications

scientific article published in October 2018

Subducted carbonates, metasomatism of mantle wedges, and possible connections to diamond formation: An example from California

scientific article published in May 2005

Tectonic Evolution of the Central Andean Plateau and Implications for the Growth of Plateaus

Tectonic implications of postcontractional magmatism of the Alisitos arc segment of the Peninsular Ranges, Baja California, Mexico

Temporal‐Geochemical Evolution of the Persani Volcanic Field, Eastern Transylvanian Basin (Romania): Implications for Slab Rollback Beneath the SE Carpathians

scientific article published in 2020

Temporal–compositional trends over short and long time-scales in basalts of the Big Pine Volcanic Field, California

article

The Architecture, Chemistry, and Evolution of Continental Magmatic Arcs

scientific article published on 30 May 2015

The geochemical evolution of the granitoid rocks in the South Qinling Belt: Insights from the Dongjiangkou and Zhashui intrusions, central China

article

The geochemistry and geochronology of Early Jurassic igneous rocks from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, NW Colombia, and tectono-magmatic implications

scholarly article by Dennis Quandt et al published October 2018 in Journal of South American Earth Sciences

The role of arc migration in Cordilleran orogenic cyclicity

scientific article published on 13 May 2019

Tracking changes in crustal thickness during orogenic evolution with Sr/Y: An example from the North American Cordillera

scholarly article

U-PB Detrital Zircon Geochronology of the Lower Danube and Its Tributaries: Implications for the Geology of the Carpathians

scholarly article by Mihai N. Ducea et al published 14 September 2018 in G3: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

U-Pb detrital-zircon geochronology of northern Salinian basement and cover rocks

scientific article published in 2005

U-Pb-Hf characterization of the central Coast Mountains batholith: Implications for petrogenesis and crustal architecture

scientific article published in 2011

U-Th-Pb geochronology of the Coast Mountains batholith in north-coastal British Columbia: Constraints on age and tectonic evolution

scientific article published on 21 July 2009

Ultrafast magmatic buildup and diversification to produce continental crust during subduction

scholarly article

Unraveling crustal growth and reworking processes in complex zircons from orogenic lower-crust: The Proterozoic Putumayo Orogen of Amazonia

Unroofing history of Alabama and Poverty Hills basement blocks, Owens Valley, California, from apatite (U–Th)/He thermochronology

scientific article published on 12 August 2009

Use of non-traditional heavy stable isotopes in archaeological research

U–Pb zircon and Re–Os molybdenite geochronology from La Caridad porphyry copper deposit: insights for the duration of magmatism and mineralization in the Nacozari District, Sonora, Mexico

scholarly article by V. A. Valencia et al published March 2005 in Mineralium Deposita

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