Geoscience Frontiers 2018 Vol. 9 No. 5

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Frontiers in geoscience: A tribute to Prof. Xuanxue Mo – Preface

Zengqian Hou, M. Santosh, Wenjiao Xiao, Yaoling Niu, Victor Mocanu

2018, 9(5): 1261-1264. DOI: 10.1016/j.gsf.2018.07.001

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Origin of the LLSVPs at the base of the mantle is a consequence of plate tectonics – A petrological and geochemical perspective

Yaoling Niu

2018, 9(5): 1265-1278. DOI: 10.1016/j.gsf.2018.03.005

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Voyage of the Indian subcontinent since Pangea breakup and driving force of supercontinent cycles: Insights on dynamics from numerical modeling

Masaki Yoshida, M. Santosh

2018, 9(5): 1279-1292. DOI: 10.1016/j.gsf.2017.09.001

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An apatite U–Pb thermal history map for the northern Gawler Craton, South Australia

James W. Hall, Stijn Glorie, Anthony J. Reid, Samuel C. Boone, Alan S. Collins, Andrew Gleadow

2018, 9(5): 1293-1308. DOI: 10.1016/j.gsf.2017.12.010

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Fluid-induced high-temperature metasomatism at Rundvågshetta in the Lützow-Holm Complex, East Antarctica: Implications for the role of brine during granulite formation

Kazuki Takahashi, Toshiaki Tsunogae, Emmanuel Nwachukwu Ugwuonah

2018, 9(5): 1309-1323. DOI: 10.1016/j.gsf.2017.11.010

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Permo-Triassic high-pressure metamorphism in the central western Korean Peninsula, and its link to Paleo-Tethyan Ocean closure: Key issues revisited

Hyeong Soo Kim, Sanghoon Kwon, Sung Won Kim, M. Santosh

2018, 9(5): 1325-1335. DOI: 10.1016/j.gsf.2018.01.007

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The Eocene corundum-bearing rocks in the Gangdese arc, south Tibet: Implications for tectonic evolution of the Himalayan orogen

Zeming Zhang, Huixia Ding, Xin Dong, Zuolin Tian, Hongchen Mu, Mengmei Li, Shengkai Qin, Zhixiang Niu, Ning Zhang

2018, 9(5): 1337-1354. DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.gsf.2017.12.011

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A new ophiolitic mélange containing boninitic blocks in Alxa region: Implications for Permian subduction events in southern CAOB

Rongguo Zheng, Jinyi Li, Wenjiao Xiao, Lijia Wang

2018, 9(5): 1355-1367. DOI: 10.1016/j.gsf.2018.02.014

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Petrology, geochemistry and geochronology of the Zhongcang ophiolite, northern Tibet: implications for the evolution of the Bangong-Nujiang Ocean

Yue Tang, Qingguo Zhai, Peiyuan Hu, Xuchang Xiao, Haitao Wang

2018, 9(5): 1369-1381. DOI: 10.1016/j.gsf.2018.05.007

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Petrogenesis and tectonic implications of early Paleozoic granitoids in East Kunlun belt: Evidences from geochronology, geochemistry and isotopes

Guochen Dong, Mingfei Luo, Xuanxue Mo, Zhidan Zhao, Liangqiong Dong, Xuehui Yu, Xin Wang, Xiaowei Li, Xiongfei Huang, Yanbin Liu

2018, 9(5): 1383-1397. DOI: 10.1016/j.gsf.2018.03.003

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Geochemistry, geochronology and Hf isotope of granitoids in the Chinese Altai: Implications for Paleozoic tectonic evolution of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt

Dengfeng He, Yunpeng Dong, Xueyi Xu, Junlu Chen, Xiaoming Liu, Wei Li, Xiangmin Li

2018, 9(5): 1399-1415. DOI: 10.1016/j.gsf.2018.01.002

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Discriminating characters of ore-forming intrusions in the super-large Chalukou porphyry Mo deposit, NE China

Peixin Duan, Cui Liu, Xuanxue Mo, Jinfu Deng, Jinhua Qin, Yu Zhang, Shipan Tian

2018, 9(5): 1417-1431. DOI: 10.1016/j.gsf.2018.04.003

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Geochronology and geochemistry of the Donglufang porphyry-skarn Mo–Cu deposit in the southern Yidun Terrane and their geological significances

Wenyan He, Shixiong Xie, Xudong Liu, Xue Gao, Yanlu Xing

2018, 9(5): 1433-1450. DOI: 10.1016/j.gsf.2018.05.009

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The role of mechanical stratigraphy in the lateral variations of thrust development along the central Alberta Foothills, Canada

Hyunjung Lee, Yirang Jang, Sanghoon Kwon, Myong-Ho Park, Gautam Mitra

2018, 9(5): 1451-1464. DOI: 10.1016/j.gsf.2018.03.006

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Calcareous nannofossil changes linked to climate deterioration during the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum in Tarim Basin, NW China

Wenxin Cao, Dangpeng Xi, Mihaela C. Melinte-Dobrinescu, Tian Jiang, Sherwood W. Wise Jr., Xiaoqiao Wan

2018, 9(5): 1465-1478. DOI: 10.1016/j.gsf.2018.04.002

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IsoplotR: A free and open toolbox for geochronology

Pieter Vermeesch

2018, 9(5): 1479-1493. DOI: 10.1016/j.gsf.2018.04.001

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Meso-Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Talas-Fergana region of the Kyrgyz Tien Shan revealed by low-temperature basement and detrital thermochronology

Simon Nachtergaele, Elien De Pelsmaeker, Stijn Glorie, Fedor Zhimulev, Marc Jolivet, Martin Danišík, Mikhail M. Buslov, Johan De Grave

2018, 9(5): 1495-1514. DOI: 10.1016/j.gsf.2017.11.007

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The complexity of sediment recycling as revealed by common Pb isotopes in K-feldspar

Simon P. Johnson, Christopher L. Kirkland, Noreen J. Evans, Brad J. McDonald, Huntly N. Cutten

2018, 9(5): 1515-1527. DOI: 10.1016/j.gsf.2018.03.009

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Mantle derived crystal-poor rhyolitic ignimbrites: Eruptive mechanism from geochemical and geochronological data of the Piedra Parada caldera, Southern Argentina

Eugenio Aragon, Antonio Castro, Juan Diaz-Alvarado, Lucio Pinotti, Fernando D′eramo, Manuel Demartis, Jorge Coniglio, Irene Hernando, Carmen Rodriguez

2018, 9(5): 1529-1553. DOI: 10.1016/j.gsf.2017.09.004

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Finite-element 3D modeling of stress patterns around a dipping fault

R.M. Lobatskaya, I.P. Strelchenko, E.S. Dolgikh

2018, 9(5): 1555-1563. DOI: 10.1016/j.gsf.2017.09.010

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New insights into petrogenesis of Miocene magmatism associated with porphyry copper deposits of the Andean Pampean flat slab, Argentina

Silvia I. Carrasquero, Nora A. Rubinstein, Anabel L.R. Gómez, Massimo Chiaradia, Dénis Fontignie, Victor A. Valencia

2018, 9(5): 1565-1576. DOI: 10.1016/j.gsf.2017.10.009

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Geochemical contamination in the mine affected soil of Raniganj Coalfield – A river basin scale assessment

Abhijit Manna, Ramkrishna Maiti

2018, 9(5): 1577-1590. DOI: 10.1016/j.gsf.2017.10.011

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Field report: Sailing around the exhumed roots of the Mesozoic Patagonian paleo-accretionary wedge (Diego de Almagro Island, Chile)

Samuel Angiboust, Jesus Muñoz

2018, 9(5): 1591-1594. DOI: 10.1016/j.gsf.2018.05.003

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