Zircons reveal magma fluxes in the Earth’s crust

Zircon petrochronology reveals the temporal link between porphyry systems and the magmatic evolution of their hidden plutonic roots (the Eocene Coroccohuayco deposit, Peru)

(2014) Cyril Chelle-Michou et al.   LITHOS

Frequency and magnitude of volcanic eruptions controlled by magma injection and buoyancy

(2014) Luca Caricchi et al.   Nature Geoscience

Zircon saturation re-revisited

(2013) Patrick Boehnke et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Source Plutons Driving Porphyry Copper Ore Formation: Combining Geomagnetic Data, Thermal Constraints, and Chemical Mass Balance to Quantify the Magma Chamber Beneath the Bingham Canyon Deposit

(2013) I. Steinberger et al.   ECONOMIC GEOLOGY

Tracking the evolution of large-volume silicic magma reservoirs from assembly to supereruption

(2013) Jörn-Frederik Wotzlaw et al.   GEOLOGY

Rates of magma differentiation and emplacement in a ballooning pluton recorded by U–Pb TIMS-TEA, Adamello batholith, Italy

(2012) Blair Schoene et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Time resolved construction of a bimodal laccolith (Torres del Paine, Patagonia)

(2012) Julien Leuthold et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Insights into the mechanisms and timescales of pluton assembly from deformation patterns of mafic enclaves

(2012) Luca Caricchi et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Catastrophic caldera-forming eruptions: Thermomechanics and implications for eruption triggering and maximum caldera dimensions on Earth

(2012) P.M. Gregg et al.   JOURNAL OF VOLCANOLOGY AND GEOTHERMAL RESEARCH

Evolution of Calc-Alkaline Volcanism and Associated Hydrothermal Gold Deposits at Yanacocha, Peru

(2011) A. A. Longo et al.   ECONOMIC GEOLOGY

Zircon crystallization and the lifetimes of ore-forming magmatic-hydrothermal systems

(2011) Albrecht von Quadt et al.   GEOLOGY

Multiscale magmatic cyclicity, duration of pluton construction, and the paradoxical relationship between tectonism and plutonism in continental arcs

(2010) Michel de Saint Blanquat et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

From plutons to magma chambers: Thermal constraints on the accumulation of eruptible silicic magma in the upper crust

(2009) C. Annen   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Zircon and titanite recording 1.5million years of magma accretion, crystallization and initial cooling in a composite pluton (southern Adamello batholith, northern Italy)

(2009) Urs Schaltegger et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Rapid Rates of Magma Generation at Contemporaneous Magma Systems, Taupo Volcano, New Zealand: Insights from U–Th Model-age Spectra in Zircons

(2009) C. J. N. Wilson et al.   JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY

Zircon Dating of Oceanic Crustal Accretion

(2009) C. J. Lissenberg et al.   SCIENCE

Incremental growth of the Patagonian Torres del Paine laccolith over 90 k.y

(2008) Jürgen Michel et al.   GEOLOGY