Origin, Accretion, and Reworking of Continents

Widespread reworking of Hadean-to-Eoarchean continents during Earth’s thermal peak

(2021) C. L. Kirkland et al.   Nature Communications

Mesozoic intraplate tectonism of East Asia due to flat subduction of a composite terrane slab

(2021) Liang Liu et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Plume-driven recratonization of deep continental lithospheric mantle

(2021) Jingao Liu et al.   NATURE

Nature and secular evolution of the lithospheric mantle beneath the North China Craton

(2021) Yanjie Tang et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

East Asian lithospheric evolution dictated by multistage Mesozoic flat-slab subduction

(2021) Lijun Liu et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Lithosphere thickness controls the extent of mantle melting, depth of melt extraction and basalt compositions in all tectonic settings on Earth – A review and new perspectives

(2021) Yaoling Niu   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Plate Tectonics and the Archean Earth

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

Texturally-controlled U–Th–Pb monazite geochronology reveals Paleoproterozoic UHT metamorphic evolution in the Khondalite Belt, North China Craton

(2020) Shujuan Jiao et al.   JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY

Subduction tectonics vs. Plume tectonics—Discussion on driving forces for plate motion

(2020) Ling Chen et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

Accretionary processes and metallogenesis of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Advances and perspectives

(2020) Wenjiao Xiao et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

Metamorphic rocks and plate tectonics

(2020) Peter A. Cawood   Science Bulletin

Critical role of water in the formation of continental crust

(2020) William J. Collins et al.   Nature Geoscience

Plutonic processes in transitional oceanic plateau crust: structure, age and emplacement of the South Rallier du Baty laccolith, Kerguelen Islands

(2020) Léandre Ponthus et al.   TERRA NOVA

The age and origin of cratonic lithospheric mantle: Archean dunites vs. Paleoproterozoic harzburgites from the Udachnaya kimberlite, Siberian craton

(2020) Dmitri A. Ionov et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

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

(2020) Hamed Gamal El Dien et al.   Scientific Reports

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

(2020) Bo Wan et al.   Science Advances

The Evolution of the Continental Crust and the Onset of Plate Tectonics

(2020) Chris J. Hawkesworth et al.   Frontiers in Earth Science

Building cratonic keels in Precambrian plate tectonics

(2020) A. L. Perchuk et al.   NATURE

New insight into the Dahomeyide Belt of southeastern Ghana, West Africa: Evidence of arc-continental collision and Neoarchaean crustal reworking

(2020) Felix Aidoo et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Petrogenesis of ca. 113 Ma volcanic rocks in the central Lhasa subterrane, southern Tibet: Implications for the tectonic setting and continental crustal reworking

(2020) Yu Huang et al.   GEOLOGICAL JOURNAL

Reworking of Hadean continental crust in the Dabie orogen: Evidence from the Muzidian granitic gneisses

(2020) Xiao-Fei Qiu et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

The Itabuna-Salvador-Curaçá Orogen revisited, São Francisco Craton, Brazil: New zircon U–Pb ages and Hf data support evolution from archean continental arc to paleoproterozoic crustal reworking during block collision

(2020) D.F. Martins de Sousa et al.   JOURNAL OF SOUTH AMERICAN EARTH SCIENCES

Thermochemical lithosphere differentiation and the origin of cratonic mantle

(2020) Fabio A. Capitanio et al.   NATURE

Lateral Structural Variation of the Lithosphere‐Asthenosphere System in the Northeastern to Eastern Iranian Plateau and Its Tectonic Implications

(2020) Zimu Wu et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Magmatic perspective on subduction of Paleo-Pacific plate and initiation of big mantle wedge in East Asia

(2020) Qiang Ma et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Thermal, rheological and kinematic conditions for channelized lower crustal flow in a threshold example

(2019) A.R.A. Aitken et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Southward propagation of Nazca subduction along the Andes

(2019) Yi-Wei Chen et al.   NATURE

Generation of Earth's early continents from a relatively cool Archean mantle

(2019) Andrea Piccolo et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

A refined model for lithosphere evolution beneath the decratonized northeastern North China Craton

(2019) A-Bing Lin et al.   CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

Deformation of crust and upper mantle in central Tibet caused by the northward subduction and slab tearing of the Indian lithosphere: New evidence based on shear wave splitting measurements

(2019) Chenglong Wu et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Decoding Earth’s rhythms: Modulation of supercontinent cycles by longer superocean episodes

(2019) Z.X. Li et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

The subduction of the west Pacific plate and the destruction of the North China Craton

(2019) Rixiang Zhu et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

A global plate model including lithospheric deformation along major rifts and orogens since the Triassic

(2019) R. Dietmar Müller et al.   TECTONICS

Seismic Constraints on the Magmatic System Beneath the Changbaishan Volcano: Insight Into its Origin and Regional Tectonics

(2019) Xingli Fan et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Toward a myth-free geodynamic history of Earth and its neighbors

(2019) Warren B. Hamilton   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Mantle earthquakes in the Himalayan collision zone

(2019) Vera Schulte-Pelkum et al.   GEOLOGY

Lithospheric structure beneath the central and western North China Craton and adjacent regions from S-receiver function imaging

(2019) Yaoyang Zhang et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Upper Mantle P and S Wave Velocity Structure of the Kalahari Craton and Surrounding Proterozoic Terranes, Southern Africa

(2019) Kameron Ortiz et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Metamorphism and the evolution of plate tectonics

(2019) Robert M. Holder et al.   NATURE

The evolution of the Kaapvaal craton: A multi-isotopic perspective from lithospheric peridotites from Finsch diamond mine

(2019) Qiao Shu et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Cyclical one-way continental rupture-drift in the Tethyan evolution: Subduction-driven plate tectonics

(2019) Bo Wan et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

Lachlan Orogen, Eastern Australia: Triangle Formation Records the Late Ordovician Arrival of the Macquarie Arc Terrane at the Margin of Eastern Gondwana

(2019) Q. Zhang et al.   TECTONICS

Complex Lithospheric Deformation in Eastern and Northeastern Tibet from Shear‐wave Splitting Observations and its Geodynamic Implications

(2019) Yifan Gao et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Cretaceous Episodic Extension in the South China Block, East Asia: Evidence From the Yuechengling Massif of Central South China

(2019) Yang Chu et al.   TECTONICS

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

No evidence for high-pressure melting of Earth’s crust in the Archean

(2019) Robert H. Smithies et al.   Nature Communications

Two styles of plate tectonics in Earth’s history

(2019) Yong-Fei Zheng et al.   Science Bulletin

Secular change in metamorphism and the onset of global plate tectonics

(2018) Michael Brown et al.   AMERICAN MINERALOGIST

The Tasmanides: Phanerozoic Tectonic Evolution of Eastern Australia

(2018) Gideon Rosenbaum   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Estimating the formation age distribution of continental crust by unmixing zircon ages

(2018) Jun Korenaga   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Lithospheric discontinuities beneath the U.S. Midcontinent – signatures of Proterozoic terrane accretion and failed rifting

(2018) Chen Chen et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Seismic Structure of the Upper Mantle Beneath Eastern Asia From Full Waveform Seismic Tomography

(2018) Kai Tao et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

The Changing Face of the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary: Imaging Continental Scale Patterns in upper mantle structure across the contiguous U.S. with Sp Converted Waves

(2018) Emily Hopper et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

High Pressure Phase Relations of a Depleted Peridotite Fluxed by CO2 -H2 O-Bearing Siliceous Melts and the Origin of Mid-Lithospheric Discontinuity

(2018) Sriparna Saha et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

On the Role of Lower Crust and Midlithosphere Discontinuity for Cratonic Lithosphere Delamination and Recycling

(2018) Zhensheng Wang et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Ridge subduction and slab windows in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Tectonic implications for the evolution of an accretionary orogen

(2018) Brian F. Windley et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Mesozoic decratonization of the North China Craton by lithospheric delamination: Evidence from Sr-Nd-Hf-Os isotopes of mantle xenoliths of Cenozoic alkaline basalts in Yangyuan, Hebei Province, China

(2018) Jin-Hui Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

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

Modification of the Western Gondwana craton by plume–lithosphere interaction

(2018) Jiashun Hu et al.   Nature Geoscience

Archaean continental spreading inferred from seismic images of the Yilgarn Craton

(2018) Andrew J. Calvert et al.   Nature Geoscience

Mesozoic mafic magmatism in North China: Implications for thinning and destruction of cratonic lithosphere

(2018) Yongfei Zheng et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

Subduction history of the Paleo-Pacific slab beneath Eurasian continent: Mesozoic-Paleogene magmatic records in Northeast Asia

(2018) Jie Tang et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

Indication from finite-frequency tomography beneath the North China Craton: The heterogeneity of craton destruction

(2018) Xiaobing Xu et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

A Probabilistic Shear Wave Velocity Model of the Crust in the Central West Australian Craton Constrained by Transdimensional Inversion of Ambient Noise Dispersion

(2018) Huaiyu Yuan et al.   TECTONICS

Lithospheric discontinuities in Central Australia

(2018) B.L.N. Kennett et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Archaean crustal growth through successive partial melting events in an oceanic plateau-like setting in the Tanzania Craton

(2018) Ioan V. Sanislav et al.   TERRA NOVA

Stagnant lids and mantle overturns: Implications for Archaean tectonics, magmagenesis, crustal growth, mantle evolution, and the start of plate tectonics

(2018) Jean H. Bédard   Geoscience Frontiers

S-type granites in the southwestern Superior Province: a marker of Archean terrane boundaries

(2018) Xue-Ming Yang et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

Redox-influenced seismic properties of upper-mantle olivine

(2018) C. J. Cline II et al.   NATURE

Mantle Flow and Deforming Continents: From India-Asia Convergence to Pacific Subduction

(2018) Laurent Jolivet et al.   TECTONICS

Lithospheric Controls on the Rifting of the Tanzanian Craton at the Eyasi Basin, Eastern Branch of the East African Rift System

(2018) Andrew W. Fletcher et al.   TECTONICS

Destruction of the North China Craton in the Mesozoic

(2018) Fu-Yuan Wu et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Geological reconstructions of the East Asian blocks: From the breakup of Rodinia to the assembly of Pangea

(2018) Guochun Zhao et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

The Dynamic History of 220 Million Years of Subduction Below Mexico: A Correlation Between Slab Geometry and Overriding Plate Deformation Based on Geology, Paleomagnetism, and Seismic Tomography

(2018) Lydian M. Boschman et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Water input into the Mariana subduction zone estimated from ocean-bottom seismic data

(2018) Chen Cai et al.   NATURE

Rates of generation and destruction of the continental crust: implications for continental growth

(2018) Bruno Dhuime et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Geological archive of the onset of plate tectonics

(2018) Peter A. Cawood et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Seismic structure of the lithosphere beneath NWNamibia: Impact of the Tristan da Cunha mantle plume

(2017) Xiaohui Yuan et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Isotopic composition of Mg and Fe in garnet peridotites from the Kaapvaal and Siberian cratons

(2017) Yajun An et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Location, location, location: The variable lifespan of the Laramide orogeny

(2017) Peter Copeland et al.   GEOLOGY

No excessive crustal growth in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Further evidence from field relationships and isotopic data

(2017) Alfred Kröner et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Petrogenetic and geodynamic origin of the Neoarchean Doré Lake Complex, Abitibi subprovince, Superior Province, Canada

(2017) Ali Polat et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

Craton destruction and related resources

(2017) Rixiang Zhu et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

Metamorphism in Neoarchean Granite-Greenstone Belts: Insights from the Link between Elu and Hope Bay Belts (∼2.7 Ga), Northeastern Slave Craton

(2017) H. Mvondo et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY

Archaean basin margin geology and crustal evolution: an East Pilbara traverse

(2017) Wouter Nijman et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Origins of cratonic mantle discontinuities: A view from petrology, geochemistry and thermodynamic models

(2017) Sonja Aulbach et al.   LITHOS

Continental crust formation on early Earth controlled by intrusive magmatism

(2017) A. B. Rozel et al.   NATURE

Earth’s first stable continents did not form by subduction

(2017) Tim E. Johnson et al.   NATURE

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

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

Potential links between continental rifting, CO2 degassing and climate change through time

(2017) Sascha Brune et al.   Nature Geoscience

Building Archean cratons from Hadean mafic crust

(2017) Jonathan O’Neil et al.   SCIENCE

Titanium isotopic evidence for felsic crust and plate tectonics 3.5 billion years ago

(2017) Nicolas D. Greber et al.   SCIENCE

Water in the Earth’s Interior: Distribution and Origin

(2017) Anne H. Peslier et al.   SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS

A tale of two orogens: Crustal processes in the Proterozoic Trans-Hudson and Grenville Orogens, eastern Canada

(2017) F. A. Darbyshire et al.   TECTONICS

Construction and destruction of some North American cratons

(2017) David B. Snyder et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Andean mountain building and magmatic arc migration driven by subduction-induced whole mantle flow

(2017) W. P. Schellart   Nature Communications

Plume-subduction interaction forms large auriferous provinces

(2017) Santiago Tassara et al.   Nature Communications

1.9 Ga eclogite from the Archean-Paleoproterozoic Belomorian Province, Russia

(2017) Xiaoli Li et al.   Science Bulletin

Layering of subcontinental lithospheric mantle

(2017) Ling Chen   Science Bulletin

Earthquake rupture below the brittle-ductile transition in continental lithospheric mantle

(2017) Germán A. Prieto et al.   Science Advances

Reconstructing South China in Phanerozoic and Precambrian supercontinents

(2017) Peter A. Cawood et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Ocean Basin Evolution and Global-Scale Plate Reorganization Events Since Pangea Breakup

(2016) R. Dietmar Müller et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Layered structure in the upper mantle across North America from joint inversion of long and short period seismic data

(2016) M. Calò et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Titanium-hydroxyl defect-controlled rheology of the Earth's upper mantle

(2016) Ulrich H. Faul et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Low water contents in diamond mineral inclusions: Proto-genetic origin in a dry cratonic lithosphere

(2016) Lawrence A. Taylor et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Insights into the tectonic evolution of the North China Craton through comparative tectonic analysis: A record of outward growth of Precambrian continents

(2016) T.M. Kusky et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Nature of the seismic lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary within normal oceanic mantle from high-resolution receiver functions

(2016) Tolulope Morayo Olugboji et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

The origin of Earth’s first continents and the onset of plate tectonics

(2016) Alan R. Hastie et al.   GEOLOGY

Destruction of the Wyoming craton: Seismic evidence and geodynamic processes

(2016) Riddhi Dave et al.   GEOLOGY

Magmatic history and crustal genesis of western South America: Constraints from U-Pb ages and Hf isotopes of detrital zircons in modern rivers

(2016) Martin Pepper et al.   Geosphere

Sources of volcanic detritus in the basal Chinle Formation, southwestern Laurentia, and implications for the Early Mesozoic magmatic arc

(2016) N.R. Riggs et al.   Geosphere

Regional variation in Moho depth and Poisson’s ratio beneath eastern China and its tectonic implications

(2016) Zigen Wei et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Complex metasomatism of lithospheric mantle by asthenosphere-derived melts: Evidence from peridotite xenoliths in Weichang at the northern margin of the North China Craton

(2016) Dongya Zou et al.   LITHOS

Global variations in abyssal peridotite compositions

(2016) Jessica M. Warren   LITHOS

Olivine inclusions in Siberian diamonds and mantle xenoliths: Contrasting water and trace-element contents

(2016) M.M. Jean et al.   LITHOS

Distribution and transport of hydrogen in the lithospheric mantle: A review

(2016) Sylvie Demouchy et al.   LITHOS

Earliest Paleoproterozoic high-grade metamorphism and orogenesis in the Gawler Craton, South Australia: The southern cousin in the Rae family?

(2016) Jacqueline A. Halpin et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Archean upper crust transition from mafic to felsic marks the onset of plate tectonics

(2016) M. Tang et al.   SCIENCE

Localized seismic deformation in the upper mantle revealed by dense seismic arrays

(2016) A. Inbal et al.   SCIENCE

Focused radiogenic heating of middle crust caused ultrahigh temperatures in southern Madagascar

(2016) Forrest Horton et al.   TECTONICS

Lasting mantle scars lead to perennial plate tectonics

(2016) Philip J. Heron et al.   Nature Communications

Three billion years of crustal evolution in eastern Canada: Constraints from receiver functions

(2016) L. Petrescu et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Seismic Evidence for Sharp Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundaries of Oceanic Plates

(2016) H. Kawakatsu et al.   SCIENCE

Continental Lower Crust

(2015) Bradley R. Hacker et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

A Tale of Amalgamation of Three Permo-Triassic Collage Systems in Central Asia: Oroclines, Sutures, and Terminal Accretion

(2015) Wenjiao Xiao et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

The seismic mid-lithosphere discontinuity

(2015) Kate Selway et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Magmatic underplating and crustal growth in the Emeishan Large Igneous Province, SW China, revealed by a passive seismic experiment

(2015) Yun Chen et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Tectonic evolution of the Sevier and Laramide belts within the North American Cordillera orogenic system

(2015) W. Adolph Yonkee et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

The thinning of subcontinental lithosphere: The roles of plume impact and metasomatic weakening

(2015) Hongliang Wang et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Characterization and Petrological Constraints of the Midlithospheric Discontinuity

(2015) Erika Rader et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

North America’s Midcontinent Rift: When rift met LIP

(2015) Carol A. Stein et al.   Geosphere

Early Palaeozoic continental growth in the Tasmanides of northeast Gondwana and its implications for Rodinia assembly and rifting

(2015) C.L. Fergusson et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

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

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

A Paleozoic Japan-type subduction-accretion system in the Beishan orogenic collage, southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt

(2015) Dongfang Song et al.   LITHOS

H2O in olivine and garnet inclusions still trapped in diamonds from the Siberian craton: Implications for the water content of cratonic lithosphere peridotites

(2015) Davide Novella et al.   LITHOS

Mechanisms and geologic significance of the mid-lithosphere discontinuity in the continents

(2015) Shun-ichiro Karato et al.   Nature Geoscience

Transformation of an Archean craton margin during Proterozoic basin formation and magmatism: The Albany–Fraser Orogen, Western Australia

(2015) C.V. Spaggiari et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

The Yellowstone magmatic system from the mantle plume to the upper crust

(2015) H.-H. Huang et al.   SCIENCE

Regional differences in crustal structure of the North China Craton from receiver functions

(2015) ZiGen Wei et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

Decratonic gold deposits

(2015) RiXiang Zhu et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

Style of rifting and the stages of Pangea breakup

(2015) Dominique Frizon de Lamotte et al.   TECTONICS

Early tectonic evolution of the Thomson Orogen in Queensland inferred from constrained magnetic and gravity data

(2015) Giovanni P.T. Spampinato et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Big insights from tiny peridotites: Evidence for persistence of Precambrian lithosphere beneath the eastern North China Craton

(2015) Jingao Liu et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

The continent–ocean transition at the mid-northern margin of the South China Sea

(2015) Jinwei Gao et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Geodynamics of oceanic plateau and plume head accretion and their role in Phanerozoic orogenic systems of China

(2015) Peter G. Betts et al.   Geoscience Frontiers

Crustal imprints of Precambrian orogenesis in western Laurentia

(2015) Yunfeng Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

The Moho beneath western Tibet: Shear zones and eclogitization in the lower crust

(2014) Zhongjie Zhang et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Imaging the North American continent using waveform inversion of global and USArray data

(2014) A.J. Schaeffer et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Craton stability and longevity: The roles of composition-dependent rheology and buoyancy

(2014) Hongliang Wang et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

High water contents in the Siberian cratonic mantle linked to metasomatism: An FTIR study of Udachnaya peridotite xenoliths

(2014) Luc S. Doucet et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Lu–Hf isotope systematics of the Hadean–Eoarchean Acasta Gneiss Complex (Northwest Territories, Canada)

(2014) Martin Guitreau et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Presence of an intralithospheric discontinuity in the central and western North China Craton: Implications for destruction of the craton

(2014) L. Chen et al.   GEOLOGY

Proterozoic onset of crustal reworking and collisional tectonics: Reappraisal of the zircon oxygen isotope record

(2014) C. J. Spencer et al.   GEOLOGY

A contrast in anisotropy across mid-lithospheric discontinuities beneath the central United States—A relic of craton formation

(2014) Erin A. Wirth et al.   GEOLOGY

A Proterozoic Wilson cycle identified by Hf isotopes in central Australia: Implications for the assembly of Proterozoic Australia and Rodinia

(2014) R.G. Smits et al.   GEOLOGY

Heading down early on? Start of subduction on Earth

(2014) S. Turner et al.   GEOLOGY

Crustal structure beneath southern Africa: insight into how tectonic events affect the Mohorovi i  discontinuity

(2014) J. R. Delph et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

P and S wave tomography of the mantle beneath the United States

(2014) Brandon Schmandt et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

A review of Wilson Cycle plate margins: A role for mantle plumes in continental break-up along sutures?

(2014) Susanne J.H. Buiter et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

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

(2014) Xian-Hua Li et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Reworking of old continental lithosphere: an important crustal evolution mechanism in orogenic belts, as evidenced by Triassic I-type granitoids in the East Kunlun orogen, Northern Tibetan Plateau

(2014) Fuhao Xiong et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Why Archaean TTG cannot be generated by MORB melting in subduction zones

(2014) Hervé Martin et al.   LITHOS

The Early Permian Tarim Large Igneous Province: Main characteristics and a plume incubation model

(2014) Yi-Gang Xu et al.   LITHOS

Spreading continents kick-started plate tectonics

(2014) Patrice F. Rey et al.   NATURE

Rejuvenation of Appalachian topography caused by subsidence-induced differential erosion

(2014) Lijun Liu   Nature Geoscience

Earth’s earliest evolved crust generated in an Iceland-like setting

(2014) Jesse R. Reimink et al.   Nature Geoscience

Eastward expansion of the Tibetan Plateau by crustal flow and strain partitioning across faults

(2014) Qi Yuan Liu et al.   Nature Geoscience

Just another drip: Re-analysis of a proposed Mesoarchean suture from the Barberton Mountain Land, South Africa

(2014) Martin J. Van Kranendonk et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Structural setting of the Young-Davidson syenite-hosted gold deposit in the Western Cadillac-Larder Lake Deformation Zone, Abitibi Greenstone Belt, Superior Province, Ontario

(2014) Jian Zhang et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Mantle dynamics in the Mediterranean

(2014) Claudio Faccenna et al.   REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS

Thinning and destruction of the cratonic lithosphere: A global perspective

(2014) FuYuan Wu et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

Influence of lithospheric mantle stratification on craton extension: Insight from two-dimensional thermo-mechanical modeling

(2014) Jie Liao et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Craton formation: Internal structure inherited from closing of the early oceans

(2014) C.M. Cooper et al.   Lithosphere

Initiation and Evolution of Plate Tectonics on Earth: Theories and Observations

(2013) Jun Korenaga   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Kimberlite Volcanism

(2013) R.S.J. Sparks   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Are Wilson Cycles preserved in Archean cratons? A comparison of the North China and Slave cratons

(2013) Timothy M. Kusky et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

Diverse crustal components in pyroxenite xenoliths from Junan, Sulu orogenic belt: Implications for lithospheric modification invoked by continental subduction

(2013) Jifeng Ying et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

The distribution of water in the continental lithospheric mantle and its implications for the stability of continents

(2013) QunKe Xia et al.   CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN

Partial melting of lower crust at 10–15 kbar: constraints on adakite and TTG formation

(2013) Qing Qian et al.   CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

A sharp cratonic lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary beneath the American Midwest and its relation to mantle flow

(2013) K. Foster et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Widespread refertilization of cratonic and circum-cratonic lithospheric mantle

(2013) Yan-Jie Tang et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Seismic evidence for stratification in composition and anisotropic fabric within the thick lithosphere of Kalahari Craton

(2013) Forough Sodoudi et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Large magnesium isotope fractionation in peridotite xenoliths from eastern North China craton: Product of melt–rock interaction

(2013) Yan Xiao et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Synchronous vertical and horizontal tectonism at late stages of Archean cratonization and genesis of Hemlo gold deposit, Superior craton, Ontario, Canada

(2013) Shoufa Lin et al.   GEOLOGY

Reassessment of continental growth during the accretionary history of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt

(2013) A. Kröner et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Orogen styles in the East African Orogen: A review of the Neoproterozoic to Cambrian tectonic evolution

(2013) H. Fritz et al.   JOURNAL OF AFRICAN EARTH SCIENCES

Differential destruction of the North China Craton: A tectonic perspective

(2013) Yan-Jie Tang et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Superplume metasomatism: Evidence from Siberian mantle xenoliths

(2013) Geoffrey H. Howarth et al.   LITHOS

Structural comparison of archetypal Atlantic rifted margins: A review of observations and concepts

(2013) Gwenn Peron-Pinvidic et al.   MARINE AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY

Water may be a damp squib

(2013) John Brodholt   NATURE

Argon isotopic composition of Archaean atmosphere probes early Earth geodynamics

(2013) Magali Pujol et al.   NATURE

Small effect of water on upper-mantle rheology based on silicon self-diffusion coefficients

(2013) Hongzhan Fei et al.   NATURE

Ephemeral isopycnicity of cratonic mantle keels

(2013) David W. Eaton et al.   Nature Geoscience

Early Permian Tarim Large Igneous Province in northwest China

(2013) ShuFeng Yang et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

Moho and magmatic underplating in continental lithosphere

(2013) H. Thybo et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Formation and Evolution of the Continental Crust

(2013) Nick Arndt   Geochemical Perspectives

Magma Oceans in the Inner Solar System

(2012) Linda T. Elkins-Tanton   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Emplacement age and Sr–Nd isotopic compositions of the Afrikanda alkaline ultramafic complex, Kola Peninsula, Russia

(2012) Fu-Yuan Wu et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Mesoproterozoic U–Pb ages, trace element and Sr–Nd isotopic composition of perovskite from kimberlites of the Eastern Dharwar craton, southern India: Distinct mantle sources and a widespread 1.1Ga tectonomagmatic event

(2012) N.V. Chalapathi Rao et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Olivine rheology, shear stress, and grain growth in the lithospheric mantle: Geological constraints from the Kaapvaal craton

(2012) Xu Chu et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Depth, degrees and tectonic settings of mantle melting during craton formation: inferences from major and trace element compositions of spinel harzburgite xenoliths from the Udachnaya kimberlite, central Siberia

(2012) L.S. Doucet et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

High water content in Mesozoic primitive basalts of the North China Craton and implications on the destruction of cratonic mantle lithosphere

(2012) Qun-Ke Xia et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Lower crustal H2O controls on the formation of adakitic melts

(2012) G.F. Zellmer et al.   GEOLOGY

How does the continental crust thin in a hyperextended rifted margin? Insights from the Iberia margin

(2012) Emilie Sutra et al.   GEOLOGY

Episodic widespread magma underplating beneath the North China Craton in the Phanerozoic: Implications for craton destruction

(2012) Hong-Fu Zhang et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Highly heterogeneous lithospheric mantle beneath the Central Zone of the North China Craton evolved from Archean mantle through diverse melt refertilization

(2012) Yan-Jie Tang et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Distinct variations of crustal shear wave velocity structure and radial anisotropy beneath the North China Craton and tectonic implications

(2012) Cheng Cheng et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Precambrian geodynamics: Concepts and models

(2012) Taras Gerya   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Textures and geochemistry of the Saramta peridotites (Siberian craton): Melting and refertilization during early evolution of the continental lithospheric mantle

(2012) M.A. Gornova et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Seismic structure of the crust and uppermost mantle of South America and surrounding oceanic basins

(2012) Gary S. Chulick et al.   JOURNAL OF SOUTH AMERICAN EARTH SCIENCES

Melt-peridotite interaction in the Pre-Cambrian mantle beneath the western North China Craton: Petrology, geochemistry and Sr, Nd and Re isotopes

(2012) Hong-Fu Zhang et al.   LITHOS

Timing of destruction of the North China Craton

(2012) Ri-Xiang Zhu et al.   LITHOS

Forty years of TTG research

(2012) Jean-François Moyen et al.   LITHOS

Mechanisms for the generation of plate tectonics by two-phase grain-damage and pinning

(2012) David Bercovici et al.   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS

Amalgamation of the North China Craton: Key issues and discussion

(2012) Guochun Zhao et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

A critical assessment of Neoarchean “plume only” geodynamics: Evidence from the Superior Province

(2012) D.A. Wyman   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

A Change in the Geodynamics of Continental Growth 3 Billion Years Ago

(2012) B. Dhuime et al.   SCIENCE

Destruction of the North China Craton

(2012) RiXiang Zhu et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

Mountain building and mantle dynamics

(2012) Claudio Faccenna et al.   TECTONICS

Dynamic role of the rheological contrast between cratonic and oceanic lithospheres in the longevity of cratonic lithosphere: A three-dimensional numerical study

(2012) Masaki Yoshida   TECTONOPHYSICS

Building the Zagros collisional orogen: Timing, strain distribution and the dynamics of Arabia/Eurasia plate convergence

(2012) F. Mouthereau et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Investigation of the Moho discontinuity beneath the Chinese mainland using deep seismic sounding profiles

(2012) Jiwen Teng et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Surface topography as key constraint on thermo-rheological structure of stable cratons

(2012) Thomas François et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Two types of Archean continental crust: Plume and plate tectonics on early Earth

(2011) M. J. Van Kranendonk   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

Building and Destroying Continental Mantle

(2011) Cin-Ty A. Lee et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

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

(2011) Xian-Hua Li et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

How Does the Continental Crust Get Really Hot?

(2011) C. Clark et al.   Elements

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(2011) A.P. Barth   Geosphere

Geophysical and geological tests of tectonic models of the North China Craton

(2011) Timothy M. Kusky   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Subduction erosion: Rates, mechanisms, and its role in arc magmatism and the evolution of the continental crust and mantle

(2011) Charles R. Stern   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Growth and reworking of the early Precambrian continental crust in the North China Craton: Constraints from zircon Hf isotopes

(2011) Yuansheng Geng et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Cool greenstone drips and the role of partial convective overturn in Barberton greenstone belt evolution

(2011) Martin J. Van Kranendonk   JOURNAL OF AFRICAN EARTH SCIENCES

Quantifying the Timing and Rate of Crustal Evolution: Global Compilation of Radiometrically Dated Detrital Zircon Grains

(2011) Peter J. Voice et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY

Seismic volcanostratigraphy of the western Indian rifted margin: The pre-Deccan igneous province

(2011) Gérôme Calvès et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Effects of melt percolation on platinum group elements and Re–Os systematics of peridotites from the Tan-Lu fault zone, eastern North China Craton

(2011) Yan Xiao et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Crustal–lithospheric structure and continental extrusion of Tibet

(2011) M.P. Searle et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Geochemical and geochronological studies of granitoid rocks from the Western Tianshan Orogen: Implications for continental growth in the southwestern Central Asian Orogenic Belt

(2011) Lingli Long et al.   LITHOS

Modern-style plate subduction preserved in the Palaeoproterozoic West African craton

(2011) J. Ganne et al.   Nature Geoscience

Dominant role of tectonic inheritance in supercontinent cycles

(2011) Pascal Audet et al.   Nature Geoscience

Magmatic breakup as an explanation for magnetic anomalies at magma-poor rifted margins

(2011) Adrien Bronner et al.   Nature Geoscience

Two contrasting Phanerozoic orogenic systems revealed by hafnium isotope data

(2011) William J. Collins et al.   Nature Geoscience

Continental growth and secular evolution: Constraints from U-Pb ages and Hf isotope of detrital zircons in Proterozoic Jixian sedimentary section (1.8–0.8Ga), North China Craton

(2011) Ji-Feng Ying et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Timing, scale and mechanism of the destruction of the North China Craton

(2011) RiXiang Zhu et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

Unraveling the New England orocline, east Gondwana accretionary margin

(2011) P. A. Cawood et al.   TECTONICS

The contorted New England Orogen (eastern Australia): New evidence from U-Pb geochronology of early Permian granitoids

(2011) Gideon Rosenbaum et al.   TECTONICS

Seismic velocity structure of crustal intrusions in the Danish Basin

(2011) H. Thybo et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Initiation of Rayleigh–Taylor instabilities in intra-cratonic settings

(2011) Weronika Gorczyk et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

The effect of Al and water on the compressibility of diopside

(2010) P. Gavrilenko et al.   AMERICAN MINERALOGIST

The Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary

(2010) Karen M. Fischer et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Protracted continental collision — evidence from the Grenville OrogenThis article is one of a series of papers published in this Special Issue on the theme Lithoprobe — parameters, processes, and the evolution of a continent.

(2010) Andrew Hynes et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

Geochronology, geochemistry and petrogenesis of rhyodacite lavas in eastern Jamaica: A new adakite subgroup analogous to early Archaean continental crust?

(2010) Alan R. Hastie et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Strength of single-crystal orthopyroxene under lithospheric conditions

(2010) Tomohiro Ohuchi et al.   CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

The sanukitoid series: magmatism at the Archaean–Proterozoic transition

(2010) Hervé Martin et al.   Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Full waveform tomography for radially anisotropic structure: New insights into present and past states of the Australasian upper mantle

(2010) Andreas Fichtner et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Diamondiferous kimberlites in central India synchronous with Deccan flood basalts

(2010) Bernd Lehmann 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

The lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary and cratonic lithospheric layering beneath Australia from Sp wave imaging

(2010) Heather A. Ford et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Reconciling plate-tectonic reconstructions of Alpine Tethys with the geological–geophysical record of spreading and subduction in the Alps

(2010) Mark R. Handy et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Late Neoproterozoic 40  intraplate rotation within Australia allows for a tighter-fitting and longer-lasting Rodinia

(2010) Z.-X. Li et al.   GEOLOGY

Exotic crustal block accretion to the eastern Gondwanaland margin in the Late Cambrian–Tasmania, the Selwyn Block, and implications for the Cambrian–Silurian evolution of the Ross, Delamerian, and Lachlan orogens

(2010) R.A. Cayley   GONDWANA RESEARCH

The Río de la Plata Craton: a review of units, boundaries, ages and isotopic signature

(2010) Pedro Oyhantçabal et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

Mesoproterozoic evolution of the Río de la Plata Craton in Uruguay: at the heart of Rodinia?

(2010) Claudio Gaucher et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

The generation and evolution of the continental crust

(2010) C.J. Hawkesworth et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

The growth of the continental crust: Constraints from zircon Hf-isotope data

(2010) E.A. Belousova et al.   LITHOS

The composite Archaean grey gneisses: Petrological significance, and evidence for a non-unique tectonic setting for Archaean crustal growth

(2010) Jean-François Moyen   LITHOS

Plate tectonics began in Neoproterozoic time, and plumes from deep mantle have never operated

(2010) Warren B. Hamilton   LITHOS

Olivine water contents in the continental lithosphere and the longevity of cratons

(2010) Anne H. Peslier et al.   NATURE

India–Asia convergence driven by the subduction of the Greater Indian continent

(2010) F. A. Capitanio et al.   Nature Geoscience

Crustal deformation of the eastern Tibetan plateau revealed by magnetotelluric imaging

(2010) Denghai Bai et al.   Nature Geoscience

Comparisons of the kinematics and deep structures of the Zagros and Himalaya and of the Iranian and Tibetan plateaus and geodynamic implications

(2010) Denis Hatzfeld et al.   REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS

The anatomy of a deep intracontinental orogen

(2010) Tom Raimondo et al.   TECTONICS

Earth's Earliest Atmospheres

(2010) K. Zahnle et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

The Hadean Crust: Evidence from >4 Ga Zircons

(2009) T. Mark Harrison   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Continental geochemical signatures in dacites from Iceland and implications for models of early Archaean crust formation

(2009) Matthias Willbold et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Formation of Paleoarchean continental crust through infracrustal melting of enriched basalt

(2009) R.H. Smithies et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Crustal structure beneath the Florida‐to‐Edmonton broadband seismometer array

(2009) S. W. French et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

The lithospheric architecture of Africa: Seismic tomography, mantle petrology, and tectonic evolution

(2009) G.C. Begg et al.   Geosphere

Yin and yang of continental crust creation and destruction by plate tectonic processes

(2009) Robert J. Stern et al.   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

End-Permian to mid-Triassic termination of the accretionary processes of the southern Altaids: implications for the geodynamic evolution, Phanerozoic continental growth, and metallogeny of Central Asia

(2009) W. J. Xiao et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

Did the Delamerian Orogeny Start in the Neoproterozoic?

(2009) Simon Turner et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY

Archean Accretion and Crustal Evolution of the Kalahari Craton—the Zircon Age and Hf Isotope Record of Granitic Rocks from Barberton/Swaziland to the Francistown Arc

(2009) Armin Zeh et al.   JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY

Crust–mantle coupling revisited: The Archean Slave craton, NWT, Canada

(2009) H. Helmstaedt   LITHOS

Isua supracrustal belt (Greenland)—A vestige of a 3.8 Ga suprasubduction zone ophiolite, and the implications for Archean geology

(2009) Harald Furnes et al.   LITHOS

Scattered wave imaging of the lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary

(2009) Catherine A. Rychert et al.   LITHOS

Subduction styles in the Precambrian: Insight from numerical experiments

(2009) E. Sizova et al.   LITHOS

Concordant structural variations from the surface to the base of the upper mantle in the North China Craton and its tectonic implications

(2009) Ling Chen   LITHOS

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

(2009) Zheng-Xiang Li et al.   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS

Granulite facies anatexis in the Ancient Gneiss Complex, Swaziland, at 2.73Ga: Mid-crustal metamorphic evidence for mantle heating of the Kaapvaal craton during Ventersdorp magmatism

(2009) Jeanne Taylor et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Geophysical Detection of Relict Metasomatism from an Archean ( 3.5 Ga) Subduction Zone

(2009) C.-W. Chen et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2009) Dominique Chardon et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Integrated seismic model of the crust and upper mantle of the Trans-European Suture zone between the Precambrian craton and Phanerozoic terranes in Central Europe

(2009) Monika Wilde-Piórko et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Cenozoic tectonic evolution of Asia: A preliminary synthesis

(2009) An Yin   TECTONOPHYSICS

Rheology of the deep upper mantle and its implications for the preservation of the continental roots: A review

(2009) Shun-ichiro Karato   TECTONOPHYSICS

The Cordilleran Ribbon Continent of North America

(2008) Stephen T. Johnston   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

The timing and extent of the eruption of the Siberian Traps large igneous province: Implications for the end-Permian environmental crisis

(2008) Marc K. Reichow et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Role of oceanic plateaus in the initiation of subduction and origin of continental crust

(2008) Rajeev Nair et al.   GEOLOGY

Accretionary Mesozoic–Cenozoic expansion of the Cordilleran continental margin in California and adjacent Oregon

(2008) William R. Dickinson   Geosphere

The Composition and Evolution of Lithospheric Mantle: a Re-evaluation and its Tectonic Implications

(2008) W. L. Griffin et al.   JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY

Origin of Archean subcontinental lithospheric mantle: Some petrological constraints

(2008) N.T. Arndt et al.   LITHOS

The continental lithosphere: Reconciling thermal, seismic, and petrologic data

(2008) Irina M. Artemieva   LITHOS

Rejuvenation and erosion of the cratonic lithosphere

(2008) Stephen F. Foley   Nature Geoscience

Arabia–Eurasia collision and the forcing of mid-Cenozoic global cooling

(2008) Mark B. Allen et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Steps in lithospheric thickness within eastern Australia, evidence from surface wave tomography

(2008) S. Fishwick et al.   TECTONICS

Tethyan and Indian subduction viewed from the Himalayan high- to ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic rocks

(2008) S. Guillot et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Lower crustal composition and crustal lineaments on the Vøring Margin, NE Atlantic: A review

(2008) R. Mjelde et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Geodynamic Significance of Seismic Anisotropy of the Upper Mantle: New Insights from Laboratory Studies

(2007) Shun-ichiro Karato et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Evolution of the Mazatzal province and the timing of the Mazatzal orogeny: Insights from U-Pb geochronology and geochemistry of igneous and metasedimentary rocks in southern New Mexico

(2007) J. M. Amato et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

On ultrahigh-temperature crustal metamorphism

(2007) David E. Kelsey   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Dynamics of cratons in an evolving mantle

(2007) C.J. O'Neill et al.   LITHOS

Refertilization of ancient lithospheric mantle beneath the central North China Craton: Evidence from petrology and geochemistry of peridotite xenoliths

(2007) Yan-Jie Tang et al.   LITHOS

Re–Os isotopes of sulfides in mantle xenoliths from eastern China: Progressive modification of lithospheric mantle

(2007) Xisheng Xu et al.   LITHOS

The Kalahari Craton during the assembly and dispersal of Rodinia

(2007) J. Jacobs et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Palaeoproterozoic to Neoproterozoic growth and evolution of the eastern Congo Craton: Its role in the Rodinia puzzle

(2007) B. De Waele et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Geological and geochronological evidence for the Precambrian evolution of the Tarim Craton and surrounding continental fragments

(2007) Songnian Lu et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

The East European Craton (Baltica) before and during the assembly of Rodinia

(2007) S.V. Bogdanova et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

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

(2007) Z.X. Li et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH