Time will tell: Secular change in metamorphic timescales and the tectonic implications

Plate Tectonics and the Archean Earth

(2020) Michael Brown et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

High-temperature overprint in (U)HPM rocks exhumed from subduction zones; A product of isothermal decompression or a consequence of slab break-off (slab rollback)?

(2020) S.W. Faryad et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Polyphase zircon growth during slow cooling from ultrahigh temperature: an example from the Archean Pikwitonei Granulite Domain

(2020) Victor E Guevara et al.   JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY

Peel-back controlled lithospheric convergence explains the secular transitions in Archean metamorphism and magmatism

(2020) Priyadarshi Chowdhury et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Secular metamorphic change and the onset of plate tectonics

(2020) Richard M. Palin et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Prolonged Partial Melting of Garnet Amphibolite from the Eastern Himalayan Syntaxis: Implications for the Tectonic Evolution of Large Hot Orogens

(2020) D. Y. Kang et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Seismological evidence for the earliest global subduction network at 2 Ga ago

(2020) Bo Wan et al.   Science Advances

The Sveconorwegian orogeny

(2020) Bernard Bingen et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Slow Cooling at Higher Temperatures Recorded within High-P Mafic Granulites from the Southern Granulite Terrain, India: Implications for the Presence and Style of Plate Tectonics near the Archean–Proterozoic Boundary

(2019) Priyadarshi Chowdhury et al.   JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY

Surface erosion events controlled the evolution of plate tectonics on Earth

(2019) Stephan V. Sobolev et al.   NATURE

Geodynamics of the early Earth: Quest for the missing paradigm

(2019) Taras Gerya   GEOLOGY

Persistence of melt-bearing Archean lower crust for >200 m.y.—An example from the Lewisian Complex, northwest Scotland

(2019) Richard J.M. Taylor et al.   GEOLOGY

Secular change in metamorphism and the onset of global plate tectonics

(2018) Michael Brown et al.   AMERICAN MINERALOGIST

Peak to post-peak thermal history of the Saglek Block of Labrador: A multiphase and multi-instrumental approach to geochronology

(2018) Monika A. Kusiak et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

2.7 Ga high-pressure granulites of the Teton Range: Record of Neoarchean continent collision and exhumation

(2018) Susan M. Swapp et al.   Geosphere

Peeling back the lithosphere: Controlling parameters, surface expressions and the future directions in delamination modeling

(2018) Oğuz H. Göğüş et al.   JOURNAL OF GEODYNAMICS

Prolonged (>100 Ma) ultrahigh temperature metamorphism in the Napier Complex, East Antarctica: A P etrochronological investigation of Earth's hottest crust

(2018) Chris Clark et al.   JOURNAL OF METAMORPHIC GEOLOGY

Archaean tectonic systems: A view from igneous rocks

(2018) Jean-François Moyen et al.   LITHOS

2.09 Ga old eclogites in the Eburnian-Transamazonian orogen of southern Cameroon: Significance for Palaeoproterozoic plate tectonics

(2018) Denny Loose et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

A planet in transition: The onset of plate tectonics on Earth between 3 and 2 Ga?

(2018) Kent C. Condie   Geoscience Frontiers

Applications and limitations of U-Pb thermochronology to middle and lower crustal thermal histories

(2018) A.J. Smye et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Neoproterozoic evolution and Cambrian reworking of ultrahigh temperature granulites in the Eastern Ghats Province, India

(2018) Ruairidh J. Mitchell et al.   JOURNAL OF METAMORPHIC GEOLOGY

The earliest evidence for modern-style plate tectonics recorded by HP–LT metamorphism in the Paleoproterozoic of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

(2018) Camille François et al.   Scientific Reports

Shear heating reconciles thermal models with the metamorphic rock record of subduction

(2018) Matthew J. Kohn et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Continental crustal volume, thickness and area, and their geodynamic implications

(2018) Peter A. Cawood et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Primary magmas and mantle temperatures through time

(2017) Jérôme Ganne et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Rapid high-T decompression recorded by Archean granulites in the northern Wyoming Province: Insights from petrological modelling

(2017) Victor E. Guevara et al.   JOURNAL OF METAMORPHIC GEOLOGY

Initiation and duration of Grampian orogenesis constrained by refined Sm–Nd garnet geochronology of the Ballantrae ophiolite, Scotland

(2017) E. M. Stewart et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Emergence of silicic continents as the lower crust peels off on a hot plate-tectonic Earth

(2017) Priyadarshi Chowdhury et al.   Nature Geoscience

Record of modern-style plate tectonics in the Palaeoproterozoic Trans-Hudson orogen

(2017) O. M. Weller et al.   Nature Geoscience

What drives metamorphism in early Archean greenstone belts? Insights from numerical modeling

(2017) Elena Sizova et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Regimes of subduction and lithospheric dynamics in the Precambrian: 3D thermomechanical modelling

(2016) R. Fischer et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

A review of thermal history and timescales of tectonometamorphic processes in Sikkim Himalaya (NE India) and implications for rates of metamorphic processes

(2016) S. Chakraborty et al.   JOURNAL OF METAMORPHIC GEOLOGY

A matter of time: The importance of the duration of UHT metamorphism

(2016) Simon L. HARLEY   Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences

On the significance of short-duration regional metamorphism

(2016) Daniel Ricardo Viete et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Postcollisional lithospheric evolution of the Southeast Carpathians: Comparison of geodynamical models and observations

(2016) Oğuz H. Göğüş et al.   TECTONICS

Precambrian ultra-hot orogenic factory: Making and reworking of continental crust

(2016) A.L. Perchuk et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

P–T–t evolution of a large, long-lived, ultrahigh-temperature Grenvillian belt in central Australia

(2015) A.K. Walsh et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Emergence of blueschists on Earth linked to secular changes in oceanic crust composition

(2015) Richard M. Palin et al.   Nature Geoscience

Rapid cooling and exhumation in the western part of the Mesoproterozoic Albany-Fraser Orogen, Western Australia

(2015) Elisabeth Scibiorski et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

On ultrahigh temperature crustal metamorphism: Phase equilibria, trace element thermometry, bulk composition, heat sources, timescales and tectonic settings

(2015) David E. Kelsey et al.   Geoscience Frontiers

High-temperature cooling histories of migmatites from the High Himalayan Crystallines in Sikkim, India: rapid cooling unrelated to exhumation?

(2014) Nilanjana Sorcar et al.   CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

Taking the temperature of Earth's hottest crust

(2014) F.J. Korhonen et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Timing, duration and inversion of prograde Barrovian metamorphism constrained by high resolution Lu–Hf garnet dating: A case study from the Sikkim Himalaya, NE India

(2014) Robert Anczkiewicz et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Rapid evolution from sediment to anatectic granulite in an Archean continental collision zone: the example of the Bandelierkop Formation metapelites, South Marginal Zone, Limpopo Belt, South Africa

(2014) G. Nicoli et al.   JOURNAL OF METAMORPHIC GEOLOGY

Controls of P-T path and element mobility on the formation of corundum pseudomorphs in Paleoproterozoic high-pressure anorthosite from Sittampundi, Tamil Nadu, India

(2013) P. Chowdhury et al.   AMERICAN MINERALOGIST

Lu–Hf and Sm–Nd garnet geochronology: Chronometric closure and implications for dating petrological processes

(2013) Matthijs A. Smit et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

On the origin of orogens

(2013) R. A. Jamieson et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Contrasting styles of Phanerozoic and Precambrian continental collision

(2013) E. Sizova et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Archean Subduction: Fact or Fiction?

(2012) Jeroen van Hunen et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Timescales of crustal melting in the Higher Himalayan Crystallines (Sikkim, Eastern Himalaya) inferred from trace element-constrained monazite and zircon chronology

(2012) Daniela Rubatto et al.   CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

Precambrian geodynamics: Concepts and models

(2012) Taras Gerya   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Exhumation mechanisms of melt-bearing ultrahigh pressure crustal rocks during collision of spontaneously moving plates

(2012) E. SIZOVA et al.   JOURNAL OF METAMORPHIC GEOLOGY

How long-lived is ultrahigh temperature (UHT) metamorphism? Constraints from zircon and monazite geochronology in the Eastern Ghats orogenic belt, India

(2012) F.J. Korhonen et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Mass flow in serpentinite-hosted subduction channels: P–T–t path patterns of metamorphic blocks in the Rio San Juan mélange (Dominican Republic)

(2011) M. Krebs et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

The nature and origin of the Barrovian metamorphism, Scotland: diffusion length scales in garnet and inferred thermal time scales

(2011) Daniel R. Viete et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Phase equilibrium constraints on conditions of granulite-facies metamorphism at Scourie, NW Scotland

(2011) T.E. Johnson et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Insight into the cooling history of the Valhalla complex, British Columbia

(2011) Benjamin W. Hallett et al.   LITHOS

Transition between “Archaean-type” and “modern-type” tectonics: Insights from the Finnish Lapland Granulite Belt

(2011) F. Cagnard et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Paleoproterozoic eclogites of MORB-type chemistry and three Proterozoic orogenic cycles in the Ubendian Belt (Tanzania): Evidence from monazite and zircon geochronology, and geochemistry

(2011) Nelson Boniface et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Modeling metamorphism in collisional orogens intruded by magmas: I. Thermal evolution

(2010) T. Lyubetskaya et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

Modeling metamorphism in collisional orogens intruded by magmas: II. Fluid flow and implications for Barrovian and Buchan metamorphism, Scotland

(2010) T. Lyubetskaya et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

Constraints on the U–Pb systematics of metamorphic rutile from in situ LA-ICP-MS analysis

(2010) Ellen Kooijman et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Thermal history of the Earth and its petrological expression

(2010) Claude Herzberg et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Geodynamic models of Archean continental collision and the formation of mantle lithosphere keels

(2010) Robert Gray et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Coupled and decoupled regimes of continental collision: Numerical modeling

(2009) M. Faccenda et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Crustal structure: A key constraint on the mechanism of ultra-high-pressure rock exhumation

(2009) C. Beaumont et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Paired metamorphic belts revisited

(2009) Michael Brown   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Effect of metamorphic reactions on thermal evolution in collisional orogens

(2009) T. LYUBETSKAYA et al.   JOURNAL OF METAMORPHIC GEOLOGY

Subduction styles in the Precambrian: Insight from numerical experiments

(2009) E. Sizova et al.   LITHOS

Flow of ultra-hot orogens: A view from the Precambrian, clues for the Phanerozoic

(2009) Dominique Chardon et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Mountain building and exhumation processes through time: inferences from nature and models

(2009) Denis Gapais et al.   TERRA NOVA

Diffusion in Solid Silicates: A Tool to Track Timescales of Processes Comes of Age

(2008) Sumit Chakraborty   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Exhumation of high-pressure rocks driven by slab rollback

(2008) Jean-Pierre Brun et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Exhumation of oceanic blueschists and eclogites in subduction zones: Timing and mechanisms

(2008) P. Agard et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Mantle lithosphere delamination driving plateau uplift and synconvergent extension in eastern Anatolia

(2008) Oğuz H. Göğüş et al.   GEOLOGY

Assembly and preservation of lower, mid, and upper orogenic crust in the Grenville Province—Implications for the evolution of large hot long-duration orogens

(2008) Toby Rivers   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Plate tectonics on the early Earth: Limitations imposed by strength and buoyancy of subducted lithosphere

(2007) Jeroen van Hunen et al.   LITHOS