Journal articles: 'Continental magmatism'

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Lipman, Peter W. "IAVCEI Meeting: Continental magmatism." Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union 70, no. 52 (1989): 1574. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/89eo00404.

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Haidar, Tanveer, Sagar Misra, Neeraj Vishwakarma, and K. R. Hari. "Geochemical evolution of basaltic flows from Dongargarh Supergroup, Bastar Craton, Central India." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 1032, no. 1 (June 1, 2022): 012001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1032/1/012001.

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Abstract Composition of basalts in magmatic arcs influenced by the subducting lithosphere, mantle wedge, dehydration of oceanic crust, and/or crustal assimilation beneath the arc. In this paper, we compiled earlier published geochemical data of Dongargarh basalts to decipher the genesis of volcanic rocks. SiO2 vs (FeO + MgO) plot of basalt suggests the volcanic rocks are tholeiitic in composition. Primitive mantle and REE normalized plots indicate either the source was enriched mantle or a possible interaction of depleted magmatic source with the Paleoarchean continental crust in the Bastar Craton. The primitive mantle normalized diagram shows a negative anomaly of Nb, Ti, and Ta indicates subduction-related magmatism. In addition to the basalt composition, variation diagrams for tectonic settings represent the continental arc-related magmatism. From the available geochemical data of basalts and earlier studies on Dongargarh volcanic, there was an oceanic ridge that was subducted beneath the continental plate. The source of Pitepani basalts was significantly enriched in HFSE and REE as compared to mid-oceanic basalts. Thus the study finds the volcanic rocks are part of enriched mantle source that formed in the subduction-related magmatism.

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Guo, Zhengfu, and Marjorie Wilson. "Late Oligocene–early Miocene transformation of postcollisional magmatism in Tibet." Geology 47, no. 8 (June 10, 2019): 776–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/g46147.1.

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Abstract Uplift of the Tibetan Plateau is thought to be one of the most important orogenic and climate forcing events of the Cenozoic Era, associated with geodynamic changes related to India-Asia collision and subsequent continental lithosphere subduction. However, the fate and scale of the subducted continental lithosphere segments remain highly controversial. Using a comprehensive compilation of the spatiotemporal distribution of postcollisional magmatic rocks across Tibet, together with new geochemical and Sr-Nd-Pb isotopic data and modeling simulations, we propose a holistic, two-stage evolutionary model to explain the link between genesis of the magmas and continental subduction. The magmatism prior to 25 Ma resulted from continuous upwelling of a carbonate-rich upper-mantle plume induced by northward underthrusting of Indian oceanic and continental lithosphere with its cover of Tethyan platform carbonate sediments, whereas magmatism after 25 Ma was related to opposing north-directed and south-directed continental subduction. Our model indicates a transformation in the distribution and nature of the magmatism in Tibet at ca. 25 Ma, which reflects a significant change in the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen and associated mantle dynamic processes in the early Miocene. Understanding this transformation could have important implications for the utility of the Himalayan-Tibetan system as a modern analogue for ancient orogens.

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Pérez Luján, Sofía B., Florencia L. Boedo, Juan P. Ariza, Graciela I. Vujovich, Patricia Alvarado, and Suzanne M. Kay. "The Cuyano proto-ocean between the Chilenia and Cuyania terranes: rifting and plume interaction during the Neoproterozoic – early Palaeozoic evolution of the SW Gondwana margin." Geological Magazine 158, no. 10 (April 27, 2021): 1773–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016756821000303.

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AbstractThe Precordillera mafic–ultramafic belt (PMUB), located in central-western Argentina, comprises mafic and ultramafic bodies interlayered and/or in tectonic contact with marine siliciclastic units. Whole-rock, mineral geochemistry and Nd–Sr isotope analyses performed in magmatic rocks suggest a relatively different spatial and temporal evolution along the belt. The southern PMUB (south of 32° S) evolved as an intra-continental rifted margin with an enriched mid-ocean-ridge basalt (E-MORB) tholeiitic to alkaline magmatism, to a proto-ocean basin (the Cuyano proto-ocean) with tholeiitic normal-MORB geochemical signature. Based on neodymium model ages (TDM), the magmatic activity started during the late Neoproterozoic Era and continued into the early Palaeozoic Era. Instead, the northern PMUB (28–32° S) evolved as an intra-continental rifted margin with dominant tholeiitic E-MORB to continental flood basalt (CFB) magmatism during the early Palaeozoic Era. ϵNd values (+3.4 to +8.4), rare earth element trends and high-field-strength element systematics, together with an estimated potential mantle temperature of c. 50–100°C above ambient mantle, suggest the PMUB magmatism derived from an enriched mantle source related to the effect of a rising plume linked to the Iapetus Ocean opening. In particular, TDM estimations of 600–550 Ma agree with reported magmatism in central to southern Appalachians. The magmatism in the PMUB, and those registered in the Neoproterozoic Catoctin Formation and in the Southern Oklahoma Aulacogen in the conjugated Laurentian margin, seem to be contemporaneous, sharing a similar plume-enriched mantle source. In this context, the E-MORB signature identified along the PMUB can be described as a plume-distal ridge tectonic setting over an extended margin.

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White, Robert S., George D. Spence, Susan R. Fowler, Dan P. McKenzie, Graham K. Westbrook, and Adrian N. Bowen. "Magmatism at rifted continental margins." Nature 330, no. 6147 (December 1987): 439–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/330439a0.

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Gower, Charles F., and Thomas E. Krogh. "A U–Pb geochronological review of the Proterozoic history of the eastern Grenville Province." Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 39, no. 5 (May 1, 2002): 795–829. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e01-090.

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The geological evolution of the eastern Grenville Province can be subdivided into three stages. During the first stage, namely pre-Labradorian (> 1710 Ma) and Labradorian (17101600 Ma) events, a continental-marginal basin was created and subsequently destroyed during accretion of a magmatic arc formed over a south-dipping subduction zone. Subduction was short-lived and arrested, leading to a passive continental margin. The second stage addresses events between 1600 and 1230 Ma. The passive margin lasted until 1520 Ma, following which a continental-margin arc was constructed during Pinwarian (15201460 Ma) orogenesis. Elsonian (14601230 Ma) distal-inboard, mafic and anorthositic magmatism, decreasing in age northward, is explained by funnelled flat subduction, possibly associated with an overridden spreading centre. As the leading edge of the lower plate advanced, it was forced beneath the Paleoproterozoic Torngat orogen root between the Archean Superior and North Atlantic cratons, achieving its limit of penetration by 1290 Ma. Static north-northeast-trending rifting then ensued, with mafic magmatism flanked by felsic products to the north and south. Far-field orogenic effects heralded the third stage, lasting from 1230 to 955 Ma. Until 1180 Ma, the eastern Grenville Province was under the distal, mild influence of Elzevirian orogenesis. From 1180 to 1120 Ma, mafic and anorthositic magmatism occurred, attributed to back-arc tectonism inboard of a post-Elzevirian Laurentian margin. Quiescence then prevailed until Grenvillian (1080980 Ma) continentcontinent collision. Grenvillian orogenesis peaked in different places at different times as thrusting released stress, thereby precipitating its shift elsewhere (pressure-point orogenesis). High-grade metamorphism, thrusting and minor magmatism characterized the Exterior Thrust Zone, in contrast to voluminous magmatism in the Interior Magmatic Belt. Following final deformation, early posttectonic anorthositicalkalicmafic magmatism (985975 Ma) and late posttectonic monzoniticsyenitegranite magmatism (975955 Ma) brought the active geological evolution of this region to a close.

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DeGraaff Surpless, Kathleen, Diane Clemens-Knott, Andrew P. Barth, and Michelle Gevedon. "A survey of Sierra Nevada magmatism using Great Valley detrital zircon trace-element geochemistry: View from the forearc." Lithosphere 11, no. 5 (June 27, 2019): 603–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/l1059.1.

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AbstractThe well-characterized Sierra Nevada magmatic arc offers an unparalleled opportunity to improve our understanding of continental arc magmatism, but present bedrock exposure provides an incomplete record that is dominated by Cretaceous plutons, making it challenging to decipher details of older magmatism and the dynamic interplay between plutonism and volcanism. Moreover, the forearc detrital record includes abundant zircon formed during apparent magmatic lulls, suggesting that understanding the long-term history of arc magmatism requires integrating plutonic, volcanic, and detrital records. We present trace-element geochemistry of detrital zircon grains from the Great Valley forearc basin to survey Sierra Nevadan arc magmatism through Mesozoic time. We analyzed 257 previously dated detrital zircon grains from seven sandstone samples of volcanogenic, arkosic, and mixed compositions deposited ca. 145–80 Ma along the length of the forearc basin. Detrital zircon trace-element geochemistry is largely consistent with continental arc derivation and shows similar geochemical ranges between samples, regardless of location along strike of the forearc basin, depositional age, or sandstone composition. Comparison of zircon trace-element data from the forearc, arc, and retroarc regions revealed geochemical asymmetry across the arc that was persistent through time and demonstrated that forearc and retroarc basins sampled different parts of the arc and therefore recorded different magmatic histories. In addition, we identified a minor group of Jurassic detrital zircon grains with oceanic geochemical signatures that may have provenance in the Coast Range ophiolite. Taken together, these results suggest that the forearc detrital zircon data set reveals information different from that gleaned from the arc itself and that zircon compositions can help to identify and differentiate geochemically distinct parts of continental arc systems. Our results highlight the importance of integrating multiple proxies to fully document arc magmatism, demonstrating that detrital zircon geochemical data can enhance understanding of a well-characterized arc, and these data may prove an effective means by which to survey an arc that is inaccessible and therefore poorly characterized.

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Kravchenko, S. M. "Possible relationships between mantle convection and continental mantle magmatism." Global Tectonics and Metallogeny 6, no. 1 (August 1, 1996): 21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/gtm/6/1996/21.

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Capaldi, T. N., N. R. McKenzie, B. K. Horton, C. Mackaman-Lofland, C. L. Colleps, and D. F. Stockli. "Detrital zircon record of Phanerozoic magmatism in the southern Central Andes." Geosphere 17, no. 3 (May 6, 2021): 876–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/ges02346.1.

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Abstract The spatial and temporal distribution of arc magmatism and associated isotopic variations provide insights into the Phanerozoic history of the western margin of South America during major shifts in Andean and pre-Andean plate interactions. We integrated detrital zircon U-Th-Pb and Hf isotopic results across continental magmatic arc systems of Chile and western Argentina (28°S–33°S) with igneous bedrock geochronologic and zircon Hf isotope results to define isotopic signatures linked to changes in continental margin processes. Key tectonic phases included: Paleozoic terrane accretion and Carboniferous subduction initiation during Gondwanide orogenesis, Permian–Triassic extensional collapse, Jurassic–Paleogene continental arc magmatism, and Neogene flat slab subduction during Andean shortening. The ~550 m.y. record of magmatic activity records spatial trends in magma composition associated with terrane boundaries. East of 69°W, radiogenic isotopic signatures indicate reworked continental lithosphere with enriched (evolved) εHf values and low (<0.65) zircon Th/U ratios during phases of early Paleozoic and Miocene shortening and lithospheric thickening. In contrast, the magmatic record west of 69°W displays depleted (juvenile) εHf values and high (>0.7) zircon Th/U values consistent with increased asthenospheric contributions during lithospheric thinning. Spatial constraints on Mesozoic to Cenozoic arc width provide a rough approximation of relative subduction angle, such that an increase in arc width reflects shallower slab dip. Comparisons among slab dip calculations with time-averaged εHf and Th/U zircon results exhibit a clear trend of decreasing (enriched) magma compositions with increasing arc width and decreasing slab dip. Collectively, these data sets demonstrate the influence of subduction angle on the position of upper-plate magmatism (including inboard arc advance and outboard arc retreat), changes in isotopic signatures, and overall composition of crustal and mantle material along the western edge of South America.

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Keir, D. "Magmatism and deformation during continental breakup." Astronomy & Geophysics 55, no. 5 (September 17, 2014): 5.18–5.22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/astrogeo/atu213.

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Sears, James W., Gregory M. St. George, and J. Chris Winne. "Continental rift systems and anorogenic magmatism." Lithos 80, no. 1-4 (March 2005): 147–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2004.05.009.

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Korenaga, Jun. "Mantle mixing and continental breakup magmatism." Earth and Planetary Science Letters 218, no. 3-4 (February 2004): 463–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0012-821x(03)00674-5.

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Peace, Alexander Lewis, Gillian R. Foulger, Christian Schiffer, and Ken J. W. McCaffrey. "Evolution of Labrador Sea–Baffin Bay: Plate or Plume Processes?" Geoscience Canada 44, no. 3 (October 6, 2017): 91–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.12789/geocanj.2017.44.120.

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Breakup between Greenland and Canada resulted in oceanic spreading in the Labrador Sea and Baffin Bay. These ocean basins are connected through the Davis Strait, a bathymetric high comprising primarily continental lithosphere, and the focus of the West Greenland Tertiary volcanic province. It has been suggested that a mantle plume facilitated this breakup and generated the associated magmatism. Plume-driven breakup predicts that the earliest, most extensive rifting, magmatism and initial seafloor spreading starts in the same locality, where the postulated plume impinged. Observations from the Labrador Sea–Baffin Bay area do not accord with these predictions. Thus, the plume hypothesis is not confirmed at this locality unless major ad hoc variants are accepted. A model that fits the observations better involves a thick continental lithospheric keel of orogenic origin beneath the Davis Strait that blocked the northward-propagating Labrador Sea rift resulting in locally enhanced magmatism. The Davis Strait lithosphere was thicker and more resilient to rifting because the adjacent Paleoproterozoic Nagssugtoqidian and Torngat orogenic belts contain structures unfavourably orientated with respect to the extensional stress field at the time.RÉSUMÉLa cassure entre le Groenland et le Canada a entraîné une expansion océanique de la mer du Labrador et de la baie de Baffin. Ces bassins océaniques sont reliés par le détroit de Davis, un haut bathymétrique constitué principalement de lithosphère continentale et de la province volcanique tertiaire de l'ouest du Groenland. Il a été suggéré qu'un panache du manteau a facilité cette cassure et généré le magmatisme associé. L’hypothèse d’une cassure produite par panache du manteau prédit que la première distension océanique, la plus importante, le magmatisme et l'expansion océanique initial se produisent là où le panache mantélique touche la croûte continentale. Or les observations dans la région de la mer du Labrador–baie de Baffin ne correspondent pas à ces prédictions. Et donc l'hypothèse du panache ne fonctionne pas dans cette région à moins que des facteurs ad hoc déterminants ne soient présents. Un modèle qui correspond mieux aux observations présuppose la présence d’une épaisse quille lithosphérique continentale d'origine orogénique sous le détroit de Davis qui aurait bloqué l’expansion océanique de la mer du Labrador vers le nord, ce qui aurait provoqué une augmentation du magmatisme localement. La lithosphère du détroit de Davis était plus épaisse et plus résistante à l’expansion océanique parce que les bandes orogéniques paléoprotérozoïques du Nagssugtoqidian et de Torngat renferment des structures défavorablement orientées par rapport au champ de contraintes d’extensions de l'époque.

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DRAUT, AMY E., PETER D. CLIFT, DAVID M. CHEW, MATTHEW J. COOPER, REX N. TAYLOR, and ROBYN E. HANNIGAN. "Laurentian crustal recycling in the Ordovician Grampian Orogeny: Nd isotopic evidence from western Ireland." Geological Magazine 141, no. 2 (March 2004): 195–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s001675680400891x.

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Because magmatism associated with subduction is thought to be the principal source for continental crust generation, assessing the relative contribution of pre-existing (subducted and assimilated) continental material to arc magmatism in accreted arcs is important to understanding the origin of continental crust. We present a detailed Nd isotopic stratigraphy for volcanic and volcaniclastic formations from the South Mayo Trough, an accreted oceanic arc exposed in the western Irish Caledonides. These units span an arc–continent collision event, the Grampian (Taconic) Orogeny, in which an intra-oceanic island arc was accreted onto the passive continental margin of Laurentia starting at ∼ 475 Ma (Arenig). The stratigraphy corresponding to pre-, syn- and post-collisional volcanism reveals a progression of εNd(t) from strongly positive values, consistent with melt derivation almost exclusively from oceanic mantle beneath the arc, to strongly negative values, indicating incorporation of continental material into the melt. Using εNd(t) values of meta-sediments that represent the Laurentian passive margin and accretionary prism, we are able to quantify the relative proportions of continent-derived melt at various stages of arc formation and accretion. Mass balance calculations show that mantle-derived magmatism contributes substantially to melt production during all stages of arc–continent collision, never accounting for less than 21% of the total. This implies that a significant addition of new, rather than recycled, continental crust can accompany arc–continent collision and continental arc magmatism.

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Wang, Zeng-Zhen, Xuan-Hua Chen, Zhao-Gang Shao, Bing Li, Hong-Xu Chen, Wei-Cui Ding, Yao-Yao Zhang, and Yong-Chao Wang. "Geochronology, geochemistry and tectonic implications of early Carboniferous plutons in the southwestern Alxa Block." Geological Magazine 159, no. 3 (November 12, 2021): 372–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016756821000984.

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AbstractThe southeastern Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB) records the assembly process between several micro-continental blocks and the North China Craton (NCC), with the consumption of the Paleo-Asian Ocean (PAO), but whether the S-wards subduction of the PAO beneath the northern NCC was ongoing during Carboniferous–Permian time is still being debated. A key issue to resolve this controversy is whether the Carboniferous magmatism in the northern NCC was continental arc magmatism. The Alxa Block is the western segment of the northern NCC and contiguous to the southeastern CAOB, and their Carboniferous–Permian magmatism could have occurred in similar tectonic settings. In this contribution, new zircon U–Pb ages, elemental geochemistry and Sr–Nd isotopic analyses are presented for three early Carboniferous granitic plutons in the southwestern Alxa Block. Two newly identified aluminous A-type granites, an alkali-feldspar granite (331.6 ± 1.6 Ma) and a monzogranite (331.8 ± 1.7 Ma), exhibit juvenile and radiogenic Sr–Nd isotopic features, respectively. Although a granodiorite (326.2 ± 6.6 Ma) is characterized by high Sr/Y ratios (97.4–139.9), which is generally treated as an adikitic feature, this sample has highly radiogenic Sr–Nd isotopes and displays significantly higher K2O/Na2O ratios than typical adakites. These three granites were probably derived from the partial melting of Precambrian continental crustal sources heated by upwelling asthenosphere in lithospheric extensional setting. Regionally, both the Alxa Block and the southeastern CAOB are characterized by the formation of early Carboniferous extension-related magmatic rocks but lack coeval sedimentary deposits, suggesting a uniform lithospheric extensional setting rather than a simple continental arc.

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Windley, Brian F. "Anorogenic magmatism and the Grenvillian Orogeny." Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 26, no. 3 (March 1, 1989): 479–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e89-041.

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The Grenvillian Orogeny was preceded by extensive anorogenic volcanism and plutonism in the period 1500–1300 Ma in the form of rhyolites, epizonal granites, anorthosites, gabbros, alkaline complexes, and basic dykes. An analogue for the mid-Proterozoic anorogenic complexes is provided by the 2000 km by 200 km belt of anorogenic complexes in the Hoggar, Niger, and Nigeria, which contain anorthosites, gabbros, and peralkaline granites and were generated in a Cambrian to Jurassic rift that farther south led to the formation of the South Atlantic. An analogue for the 1 × 106 km2 area of 1500–1350 Ma rhyolites (and associated epizonal granites) that underlie the mid-continental United States is provided by the 1.7 × 106 km2 area of Jurassic Tobifera rhyolites in Argentina, which were extruded on the stretched continental margin of South America immediately preceding the opening of the South Atlantic. The mid-Proterozoic complexes were intruded close to the continental margin of the Grenvillian ocean and were commonly superimposed by the craton-directed thrusts that characterized the final stages of the Grenvillian Orogeny. The bulk of the Keweenawan rift and associated anorogenic magmatism formed about 1100 Ma at the same time as the Ottawan Orogeny in Ontario, which probably resulted from the collision of the island arc of the Central Metasedimentary Belt attached to the continental block in the east with the continental block to the west. The most appropriate modern equivalent would be the Rhine Graben, which formed at the same time as the main Alpine compression.

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Hill, R. I., B. W. Chappell, and I. H. Campbell. "Late Archaean granites of the southeastern Yilgarn Block, Western Australia: age, geochemistry, and origin." Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 83, no. 1-2 (1992): 211–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0263593300007902.

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ABSTRACTLate Archaean granitic rocks from the southern Yilgarn Craton of Western Australia have a close temporal relationship to the basaltic and komatiitic volcanism which occurs within spatially associated greenstone belts. Greenstone volcanism apparently began ∼2715 Ma ago, whereas voluminous felsic magmatism (both extrusive and intrusive) began about 2690 Ma ago. A brief but voluminous episode of crust-derived magmatism ∼2690-2685 Ma ago resulted in the emplacement of a diverse assemblage of plutons having granodioritic, monzogranitic and tonalitic compositions. This early felsic episode was followed immediately by the emplacement of mafic sills, and, after a further time delay, by a second episode of voluminous crust-derived magmatism dominated by monzogranite but containing plutons covering a wide compositional range, including diorite, granodiorite and tonalite. The products of this 2665–2660 Ma magmatic episode now form a significant fraction of the exposed southern Yilgarn Craton. Later magmatism, which continued to at least 2600 Ma ago, appears largely restricted to rocks having unusually fractionated compositions.The magmatic sequence basalt-voluminous crust-derived magmatism-later diverse magmatism, is interpreted in terms of a dynamically-based model for the ascent of the head of a new mantle plume. In this model basalts and komatiites are derived by decompression melting of rising plume material, and the crust-derived magmas result after conductive transport of heat from the top of the plume head into overlying continental crust. This type of magmatic evolution, the fundamentally bimodal nature of the magmatism, the presence of high-Mg volcanics (komatiites), and the areal extent of the late Archaean magmatic event, are all suggested to be characteristic of crustal reworking above mantle plumes rather than resulting from other processes, such as those related to subduction.

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Ovchinnikov, R. O., A. A. Sorokin, N. M. Kudryashov, V. P. Kovach, J. V. Plotkina, and T. M. Skovitina. "Age of the Early Paleozoic granitoid magmatismin the central part of the Bureya continental massif, Central Asian Fold Belt." Geodynamics & Tectonophysics 11, no. 1 (March 19, 2020): 89–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.5800/gt-2020-11-1-0465.

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The article presents new age data on the ‘key’ Early Paleozoic igneous complexes located in the central part of the Bureya continental massif of the Central Asian Fold Belt. Porphyroblastic quartz monzonites of the Kivili complex are dated to 453±2 Ma. The age of gneissic granites of the Sularin complex is ~481 Ma. The Sm-Nd isotope studies show that Late Ordovician quartz monzonites were formed mainly from crustal sources with Paleoproterozoic Nd model isotopic ages. Both ancient (Paleoproterozoic?) and younger sources were involved in the formation of Cambrian granites. Our data, as well as previously published materials, suggest several stages of the Early Paleozoic magmatism in the evolution of the Bureya continental massif: ~541, ~504–500, ~487, ~474 and ~453 Ma. Early Paleozoic magmatism developed under a similar scenario in the Jiamusi continental massif. In addition to the synchronism of Neoproterozoic magmatism within these continental massifs, this feature testifies to their common geological history.

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White, R. S. "Magmatism during and after continental break-up." Geological Society, London, Special Publications 68, no. 1 (1992): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/gsl.sp.1992.068.01.01.

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Kazmin, V. G., and A. F. Byakov. "Magmatism and crustal accretion in continental rifts." Journal of African Earth Sciences 30, no. 3 (April 2000): 555–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0899-5362(00)00038-5.

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Rivers, Toby, and David Corrigan. "Convergent margin on southeastern Laurentia during the Mesoproterozoic: tectonic implications." Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 37, no. 2-3 (April 2, 2000): 359–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e99-067.

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A continental-margin magmatic arc is inferred to have existed on the southeastern (present coordinates) margin of Laurentia from Labrador to Texas from ~1500-1230 Ma, with part of the arc subsequently being incorporated into the 1190-990 Ma collisional Grenville Orogen. Outside the Grenville Province, where the arc is known as the Granite-Rhyolite Belt, it is undeformed, whereas within the Grenville Province it is deformed and metamorphosed. The arc comprises two igneous suites, an inboard, principally quartz monzonitic to granodioritic suite, and an outboard tonalitic to granodioritic suite. The quartz monzonite-granodiorite suite was largely derived from continental crust, whereas the tonalitic-granodiorite suite is calc-alkaline and has a juvenile isotopic signature. Available evidence from the Grenville Province suggests that the arc oscillated between extensional and compressional settings several times during the Mesoproterozoic. Back-arc deposits of several ages, that formed during relatively brief periods of extension, include (1) mafic dyke swarms subparallel to the arc; (2) continental sediments, bimodal volcanics and plateau basalts; (3) marine sediments and volcanics formed on stretched continental crust; and (4) ocean crust in a marginal basin. Closure of the back-arc basins occurred during the accretionary Pinwarian (~1495-1445 Ma) and Elzevirian (~1250-1190 Ma) orogenies, as well as during three pulses of crustal shortening associated with the 1190-990 Ma collisional Grenvillian Orogeny. During the Elzevirian Orogeny, closure of the Central Metasedimentary Belt marginal basin in the southeastern Grenville Province was marked by subduction-related magmatism as well as by imbrication of back-arc deposits. The presence of a continental-margin magmatic arc on southeastern Laurentia during the Mesoproterozoic implies that other coeval magmatism inboard from the arc took place in a back-arc setting. Such magmatism was widespread and chemically diverse and included large volume "anorogenic" anorthosite-mangerite-charnockite-granite (AMCG) complexes as well as small volume alkaline, quartz-saturated and -undersaturated "within-plate" granitoids. Recognition of the ~300 million year duration of the Mesoproterozoic convergent margin of southeastern Laurentia suggests that there may be useful parallels with the evolution of the Andes, which has been a convergent margin since the early Paleozoic.

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Ross, Gerald M., and David W. Eaton. "Proterozoic tectonic accretion and growth of western Laurentia: results from Lithoprobe studies in northern Alberta." Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 39, no. 3 (March 1, 2002): 313–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e01-081.

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The western Canadian Shield of northern Alberta is composed of a series of continental slivers that were accreted to the margin of the Archean Rae hinterland ca. 1.92.0 Ga., preserving a unique record of continental evolution for the interval 2.12.3 Ga. This part of Laurentia owes its preservation to the accretionary style of tectonic assembly south of the Great Slave Lake shear zone, which contrasts with indentationescape processes that dominate the Paleoproterozoic record farther north. The Buffalo Head and Chinchaga domains form the central core of this region, comprising a collage of ca. 23252045 Ma crustal elements formed on an Archean microcontinental edifice, and similar age crust is preserved as basement to the Taltson magmatic zone. The distribution of magmatic ages and inferred collision and subduction zone polarity are used to indicate closure of intervening oceanic basins that led to magmatism and emplacement of continental margin arc and collisional belts that formed from ca. 1998 to1900 Ma. Lithoprobe crustal seismic profiles complement the existing geochronologic and geologic databases for northern Alberta and elucidate the nature of late stages of the accretionary process. Crustal-scale imbrication occurred along shallow eastward-dipping shear zones, resulting in stacking of arc slivers that flanked the western Buffalo Head terrane. The seismic data suggest that strain is concentrated along the margins of these crustal slivers, with sparse evidence for internal penetrative deformation during assembly. Post-collisional mafic magmatism consisted of widespread intrusive sheets, spectacularly imaged as regionally continuous subhorizontal reflections, which are estimated to extend over a region of ca. 120 000 km2. The form of such mid-crustal magmatism, as subhorizontal sheets (versus vertical dykes), is interpreted to represent a style of magma emplacement within a confined block, for which a tectonic free face is unavailable.

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Fang, Wei, Li-Qun Dai, Yong-Fei Zheng, Zi-Fu Zhao, and Li-Tao Ma. "Tectonic transition from oceanic subduction to continental collision: New geochemical evidence from Early-Middle Triassic mafic igneous rocks in southern Liaodong Peninsula, east-central China." GSA Bulletin 132, no. 7-8 (November 18, 2019): 1469–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/b35278.1.

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Abstract In contrast to the widespread occurrence of mafic arc magmatism during oceanic subduction, there is a general lack of such magmatism during continental subduction. This paradigm is challenged by the discovery of Early-Middle Triassic mafic igneous rocks from the southeastern margin of the North China Block (NCB), which was subducted by the South China Block (SCB) during the Triassic. Zircon U-Pb dating for these mafic rocks yields 247 ± 2–244 ± 5 Ma for their emplacement, coeval with the initial collision between the two continental blocks. These Triassic mafic rocks generally exhibit ocean island basalt (OIB)-like trace element distribution patterns, intermediate (87Sr/86Sr)i ratios of 0.7057–0.7091, weakly negative εNd(t) values of –1.2 to –3.8, and εHf(t) values of –1.3 to –3.2. Such geochemical features indicate origination from a metasomatic mantle source with involvement of felsic melts derived from dehydration melting of the previously subducting Paleo-Tethyan oceanic crust. The syn-magmatic zircons of Triassic age show variable Hf-O isotopic compositions, indicating that the crustal component was composed of both altered basaltic oceanic crust and terrigenous sediment. High Fe/Mn and Zn/Fe ratios suggest that the mantle source would mainly consist of ultramafic pyroxenites. The melt-mobile incompatible trace elements were further fractionated relative to melt-immobile trace elements during partial melting of these pyroxenites, giving rise to basaltic melts with OIB-like geochemical signatures. The mafic magmatism may be caused by tectonic extension due to rollback of the subducting Paleo-Tethyan oceanic slab in response to the initial collision of the NCB and SCB in the Early Triassic. Therefore, the syn-subduction mafic magmatism provides new geochemical evidence for tectonic transition from oceanic subduction to continental collision in east-central China.

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Gordienko, I. V. "The role of island-arc oceanic, collisional and intraplate magmatism in the formation of continental crust in the Mongolia-Trasnbaikalia region: geostructural, geochronological and Sm-Nd isotope data." Geodynamics & Tectonophysics 12, no. 1 (March 21, 2021): 1–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.5800/gt-2021-12-1-0510.

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The formation of continental crust in the Mongolia-Transbaikalia region is researched to identify the mechanisms of interactions between the crust and the mantle in the development of the Neoarchean, Proterozoic and Paleozoic magmatic and sedimentary complexes in the study area. Using the results of his own studies conducted for many years and other published data on this vast region of Central Asia, the author have analysed compositions, ages and conditions for the formation of Karelian, Baikalian, Caledonian and Hercynian structure-formational complexes in a variety of geodynamic settings. Based on the geostructural, petrological, geochemical, geochronological and Sm-Nd isotope data, he determines the crustal and mantle sources of magmatism, conducts the identification and mapping of isotopic provinces, and reveals the role of island-arc oceanic, accretion-collision and intraplate magmatism in the formation of continental crust. Considering the formation of the bulk continental crust, three main stages are distinguished: (1) Neoarchean and Paleoproterozoic (Karelian) (almost 30% of the crust volume), (2) Meso-Neoproterozoic (Baikalian) (50%), and (3) Paleozoic (Caledonian and Hercynian) (over 20%). This sequence of the evolution stages shows the predominance of the ancient crustal material in igneous rocks sources at the early stage. During the subsequent stages, tectonic structures created earlier were repeatedly reworked, and mixed crustal-mantle and juvenile sources were widely involved in the formation of the bulk continental crust in the study area.

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Puchkov, Viktor N. "The plume-dependent granite-rhyolite magmatism." LITOSFERA, no. 5 (October 28, 2018): 692–705. http://dx.doi.org/10.24930/1681-9004-2018-18-5-692-705.

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The plume-dependent magmatism is widespread and well justified. The bulk of it is represented by flood basalts, basalts of oceanic islands (OIB), and basalts of oceanic plateaus (OPB), though the whole scope of plume magmatism is very diverse. A noticeable role among them is played also by acid (silicic) magmatic rocks - rhyolites and granites. Two main types of plume magmatism are recognized. The first belongs to Large Igneous Provinces (LIP) and is thought to be born at the Core-Mantle boundary within structures, called superswells, that produce giant, short-living mantle upwellings, resulting in abundant volcanism on the Earth’s surface. The second type is represented by linear volcanic chains characterized by regular age progressions. They are formed by single plumes - thin ascending mantle flows, acting during longer periods of time. It is shown that the abundance of silicic magmatism strongly depends on the type of the earth’s crust. Among flood basalts of continents, silicic magmatism is usually present, subordinate in volume to basalts and belongs to a bimodal type of magmatism. But in some cases LIP in continents are formed predominantly by silicic rocks; they are given the name Silicic LIPS, or SLIPS. In oceans, LIP are fundamentally basaltic with no considerable volume of silicic volcanics, if any. The time-progressive volcanic chains in continents are rare and usually comprise a noticeable silicic component. In oceans, the chains are composed mostly of basalts (OIB type), though in the top parts of volcanoes more acid and alkaline differentiates are present; usually they lack rhyolites and granites, except the cases of a presence of some strips of continental crust or anomalously thick oceanic crust. This review can lead to a thought of an important role of melting of continental crust in formation of plume-dependent rhyolite-granite magmatism. As for the Urals, the proofs for a presence of plume-dependent magmatism in its history were presented only recently. Among the plume episodes, some are characterized by presence of silicic components, in particular: Mashak (1380-1385 Ma), Igonino (707-732 Ma), Man’khambo (mainly Cambrian), Ordovician Kidryasovo, Stepninsky (Permian) and Urals-Siberian (Triassic).

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Handke, Michael J., Robert D. Tucker, and Lewis D. Ashwal. "Neoproterozoic continental arc magmatism in west-central Madagascar." Geology 27, no. 4 (1999): 351. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<0351:ncamiw>2.3.co;2.

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Laurie, Angelique, Gary Stevens, and Jeroen van Hunen. "The end of continental growth by TTG magmatism." Terra Nova 25, no. 2 (November 14, 2012): 130–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ter.12015.

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Wendlandt, Richard F., W. Scott Baldridge, and E. R. Neumann. "Modification of lower crust by continental rift magmatism." Geophysical Research Letters 18, no. 9 (September 1991): 1759–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/91gl01881.

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Marzoli, Andrea, Francesco Princivalle, Leone Melluso, and Don Baker. "Within plate continental magmatism and its mantle sources." Lithos 188 (February 2014): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2013.11.008.

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Hergt, Janet. "Magmatism and the causes of continental break-up." Chemical Geology 109, no. 1-4 (October 1993): 356–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0009-2541(93)90081-s.

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Pedersen, Svend, Tom Andersen, Jens Konnerup-Madsen, and William L. Griffin. "Recurrent mesoproterozoic continental magmatism in South-Central Norway." International Journal of Earth Sciences 98, no. 5 (June 13, 2008): 1151–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00531-008-0309-0.

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LEAT, PHILIP. "Magmatism and the causes of continental break-up." Journal of the Geological Society 149, no. 4 (July 1992): 669–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/gsjgs.149.4.0669.

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Swanson, Donald A. "Magmatism and the Causes of Continental Break-up." Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 60, no. 3-4 (May 1994): 327–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0377-0273(94)90058-2.

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Dostal, Jaroslav, J. Duncan Keppie, B. Neil Church, Peter H. Reynolds, and Cheryl R. Reid. "The Eocene–Oligocene magmatic hiatus in the south-central Canadian Cordillera: a capture of the Kula Plate by the Pacific Plate?" Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 45, no. 1 (January 1, 2008): 69–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e07-062.

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The Tertiary (Paleogene and Neogene) geological record in south-central Canadian Cordillera is dominated by the 350–400 km wide, lower Eocene volcanic arc and the overlying Miocene–Recent back-arc lavas that are separated by a hiatus in magmatic activity between 48 and 24 Ma. In the Black Dome area (~240 km north of Vancouver), the Eocene volcanic rocks are mainly continental margin calc-alkaline andesite and dacite, resulting from the melting of a juvenile mafic source at the base of the crust. In contrast, the Miocene volcanic rocks resemble continental flood basalts. Both Eocene and Miocene rocks from the Black Dome volcanic complex have high positive εNd values (+7.2 to +7.4 and +6.4 to +7.6, respectively) and low initial Sr isotopic ratios (0.702 516 – 0.703 528 and 0.703 376 – 0.703 392, respectively) comparable to modern oceanic basalts. The onset of the hiatus in magmatism at 48 Ma coincides with capture of the Kula Plate by the Pacific Plate resulting in a change in convergence direction with the North American Plate from orthogonal to margin-parallel. The margin-parallel motion is inferred to have removed a 50–100 km sliver of the Eocene forearc that formed the boundary between the Pacific and subducted Kula Plate. Reinitiation of arc magmatism at 24 Ma is related to subduction of the Farallon and associated plates and it superimposed back-arc tholeiitic magmatism on top of the Eocene arc.

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Liu, Yutao, Chun-Feng Li, Yonglin Wen, Zewei Yao, Xiaoli Wan, Xuelin Qiu, Jia-zheng Zhang, Aqeel Abbas, Xi Peng, and Gang Li. "Mantle serpentinization beneath a failed rift and post-spreading magmatism in the northeastern South China Sea margin." Geophysical Journal International 225, no. 2 (January 11, 2021): 811–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggab006.

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SUMMARY The post-spreading magmatic activities in the northeastern South China Sea (SCS) margin are very strong, evidenced by widely distributed high-velocity lower crust (HVLC) and numerous volcanoes. However, there are large contrasts in magmatic activities and crustal structure between the Southern Depression (TSD) of the Tainan Basin and the volcanic continental slope area further south. We analyse their crustal P-wave velocity structures based on a newly acquired wide-angle ocean bottom seismic data set. The Cenozoic strata below the TSD, a Cenozoic failed rift, are relatively thick (∼3–4.5 km) with velocities from 1.6 to 3.6–3.9 km s–1, whereas the Mesozoic strata are relatively thin (∼1–2.5 km) with velocities from 4.3 to 4.6–5.2 km s–1. In the TSD, magmatic activities are relatively weak and the crust is severely thinned (∼4 km). The crust is 9–15 km thick below the volcanic continental slope area, which shows extensive volcanism. We identified HVLC below the failed rift of the TSD (Zone 1) and attributed it to mantle serpentinization, whereas the imaged HVLC below the volcanic continental slope (Zone 3) and HVLC adjacent to the failed rift of the TSD (Zone 2) are due to post-spreading magmatic underplating/intrusions. At the model distance ∼90 km, lateral transition from magmatic underplating/intrusions to mantle serpentinization occurred abruptly. We concur that post-spreading cooling and thermal contraction in the nearby SCS oceanic lithosphere can trigger decompressive melting and deformation in the thinned continental slope zone. Our study shows that, in addition to mantle serpentinization in the continent–ocean transition (COT) zone, mantle can also be serpentinized below the rift during early-stage rifting. Weak syn-rifting magmatism and mantle serpentinization below the failed rift support that the northeastern SCS has a magma-poor margin.

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Riley, T. R., M. J. Flowerdew, R. J. Pankhurst, P. T. Leat, I. L. Millar, C. M. Fanning, and M. J. Whitehouse. "A revised geochronology of Thurston Island, West Antarctica, and correlations along the proto-Pacific margin of Gondwana." Antarctic Science 29, no. 1 (August 30, 2016): 47–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954102016000341.

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AbstractThe continental margin of Gondwana preserves a record of long-lived magmatism from the Andean Cordillera to Australia. The crustal blocks of West Antarctica form part of this margin, with Palaeozoic–Mesozoic magmatism particularly well preserved in the Antarctic Peninsula and Marie Byrd Land. Magmatic events on the intervening Thurston Island crustal block are poorly defined, which has hindered accurate correlations along the margin. Six samples are dated here using U-Pb geochronology and cover the geological history on Thurston Island. The basement gneisses from Morgan Inlet have a protolith age of 349±2 Ma and correlate closely with the Devonian–Carboniferous magmatism of Marie Byrd Land and New Zealand. Triassic (240–220 Ma) magmatism is identified at two sites on Thurston Island, with Hf isotopes indicating magma extraction from Mesoproterozoic-age lower crust. Several sites on Thurston Island preserve rhyolitic tuffs that have been dated at 182 Ma and are likely to correlate with the successions in the Antarctic Peninsula, particularly given the pre-break-up position of the Thurston Island crustal block. Silicic volcanism was widespread in Patagonia and the Antarctic Peninsula at ~ 183 Ma forming the extensive Chon Aike Province. The most extensive episode of magmatism along the active margin took place during the mid-Cretaceous. This Cordillera ‘flare-up’ event of the Gondwana margin is also developed on Thurston Island with granitoid magmatism dated in the interval 110–100 Ma.

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Pereira, Manuel Francisco, José Manuel Fuenlabrada, Carmen Rodríguez, and António Castro. "Changing Carboniferous Arc Magmatism in the Ossa-Morena Zone (Southwest Iberia): Implications for the Variscan Belt." Minerals 12, no. 5 (May 9, 2022): 597. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/min12050597.

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Carboniferous magmatism in southwestern Iberia was continuously active for more than 60 m.y. during the development of the Appalachian-Variscan belt of North America, North Africa and Western-Central Europe. This collisional orogen that records the closure of the Rheic Ocean is essential to understanding the late Paleozoic amalgamation of the Pangea supercontinent. However, the oblique convergence between Laurussia and Gondwana that lasted from the Devonian to the Carboniferous was likely more complex. Recently, a new tectonic model has regarded the Iberia Variscan belt as the site of coeval collisional and accretionary orogenic processes. Early Carboniferous plutonic rocks of southwest Iberia indicate arc magmatism in Gondwana. The Ossa-Morena Zone (OMZ) acted as the upper plate in relation to the geometry of the Paleotethys subduction. This active accretionary-extensional margin was progressively involved in a collisional phase during the Late Carboniferous. Together, the Évora Massif and the Beja Igneous Complex include three successive stages of bimodal magmatism, with a chemical composition indicative of a long-lived subduction process lasting from the Tournaisian to the Moscovian in the OMZ. The earliest stage of arc magmatism includes the Tournaisian Beja and Torrão gabbro-dioritic rocks of the Layered Gabbroic Sequence. We present new geochemical and Nd isotopic and U-Pb geochronological data for magmatic rocks from the Main (Visean-Serpukhovian) and Latest (Bashkirian-Moscovian) stages of arc magmatism. Visean Toca da Moura trachyandesite and rhyolites and Bashkirian Baleizão porphyries and Alcáçovas quartz diorite share enriched, continental-crust like characteristics, as indicated by major and trace elements, mainly suggesting the addition of calc-alkaline magma extracted from various mantle sources in a subduction-related setting (i.e., Paleotethys subduction). New U-Pb zircon geochronology data have allowed us to establish a crystallization age of 317 ± 3 Ma (Bashkirian) for Alcáçovas quartz diorite that confirms a temporal link with Baleizão porphyry. Positive εNd(t) values for the Carboniferous igneous rocks of the Beja Igneous Complex and the Évora gneiss dome indicate production of new juvenile crust, whereas negative εNd(t) values also suggest different grades of magma evolution involving crustal contamination. The production and evolution of Carboniferous continental crust in the OMZ was most likely associated with the development of an active continental margin during the convergence of the Paleotethys Ocean with Gondwana, involving juvenile materials and different grades of crustal contamination.

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Kutsukake, Toshio. "An initial continental margin plutonism — Cretaceous Older Ryoke granitoids, southwest Japan." Geological Magazine 130, no. 1 (January 1993): 15–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016756800023694.

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AbstractThe emplacement of the Older Ryoke granitoids took place in the Mid-Cretaceous Period in the outermost side of the Inner Zone of southwest Japan, which was located at the eastern margin of the Eurasian Continent before the opening of the Japan Sea. The Ryoke Belt constitutes a long segment of the Cretaceous to Palaeogene felsic magmatic belt of Pacific Asia. The Older Ryoke granitoids represent its initial magmatism, related to the subduction of an oceanic plate underneath the Eurasian plate in that time. Their magmas were generated in the lower to middle crust beneath the Ryoke Belt in the subduction regime. They were emplaced during the Ryoke regional metamorphism and converted to orthogneisses.

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Sato, K., S. V. Kovalenko, N. P. Romanovsky, M. Nedachi, N. V. Berdnikov, and T. Ishihara. "Crustal control on the redox state of granitoid magmas: tectonic implications from the granitoid and metallogenic provinces in the circum-Japan Sea Region." Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 95, no. 1-2 (March 2004): 319–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0263593300001103.

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ABSTRACTFelsic magmatism has occurred over a large region of East Asia since Jurassic times and has provided important mineral resources such as tin, tungsten, base metals and gold. The circum-Japan Sea region preserves various geological records of active continental margins, including Jurassic to Early Tertiary magmatic arcs and subduction zones and pre-Jurassic continental basements, which were separated by the opening of the Japan Sea during the Miocene. The felsic magmatism in this region shows a wide variation in terms of redox state and related mineralisation, encompassing east–west contrasts around the Pacific Ocean. A review of granitoids and associated ore deposits in this region indicates that the character of the crust, sedimentary versus igneous, is an essential factor to control the redox state, and a tectonic setting may be an additional factor in some cases.The reduced-type granitoids, characterised by tin mineralisation, were generated in carbonbearing sedimentary crust which was composed mainly of accretionary complex material and not influenced by previous magmatism. Involvement of sedimentary materials is corroborated by oxygen, sulphur and strontium isotope data. The oxidised-type granitoids, characterised by gold or molybdenum mineralisation, were generated in igneous crust which was depleted in reducing agents as a result of previous magmatism. Granitoid magmatism in a given area tends to become more oxidised with time.Jurassic accretionary complexes in East Asia are thought to have been largely displaced from the original place of accretion and stacked up against the northeastern margin in the Khingan and Sikhote–Alin Mountains. This region, dominated by sedimentary crust, was subsequently subjected to Cretaceous felsic magmatism and converted to a large province of reduced-type granitoids and tin–tungsten mineralisation. Diverse geodynamic processes, including the change of the arc-trench system, the creation and collapse of the back-arc basin and the collision of continents, may have prepared many favourable sites for the generation of reduced-type granitoids in northeast Asia. These processes may have resulted in a remarkable contrast with the Pacific margin of North America, where repeated arc magmatism during the Mesozoic formed granitoid batholiths of the oxidised-type.The granitoid types may also be controlled by the tectonic setting and mode of magma emplacement. In the northern Kitakami area of Northeast Japan, Early Cretaceous episodic magmatism occurred in a Jurassic accretionary complex, and formed the oxidised-type granitoids accompanied by submarine bimodal volcanism associated with kuroko mineralisation. Granitoids of fissure-filling type emplaced under extensional environments may be oxidised, irrespective of basement geology, because of insignificant crustal input.

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Wang, Wei, Peter A. Cawood, Christopher J. Spencer, Manoj K. Pandit, Jun-Hong Zhao, Xiao-Ping Xia, Jian-Ping Zheng, and Gui-Mei Lu. "Global-scale emergence of continental crust during the Mesoarchean–early Neoarchean." Geology 50, no. 2 (November 9, 2021): 184–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/g49418.1.

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Abstract The timing of the emergence of subaerial landmasses is equivocally constrained as post-Archean and continues to be a much-debated issue. In this study, we document exceptionally 18O-depleted (δ18O < 4.7‰) Mesoarchean to early Neoarchean magmatism in India that shows a similarity with the coeval low-δ18O magmas reported from Australia, South America, and northern China. Such global-scale low-δ18O magmatism would require high-temperature meteoric water–rock interaction in the uppermost crust synchronous with magma generation, necessitating the emergence of a substantial volume of the continental crust. The timing of this low-δ18O magmatism coincides with the development of extensive, subaerial large igneous provinces, a downward shift in δ18O and Δ17O values in pelitic rocks, the rise of normalized 87Sr/86Sr in seawater, and an intermittent upsurge in the proportion of atmospheric oxygen. We propose that the emergence of substantial volumes of continental crust initiated at ca. 3.2 Ga and peaked at 2.8–2.6 Ga, facilitating the generation of globally distributed low-δ18O magmas, and this event can be linked to the first appearance of atmospheric oxygen.

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Grebennikov, A. V., S. A. Kasatkin, D. G. Fedoseev, and A. I. Khanchuk. "THE MIDDLE PALEOCENE–EARLY EOCENE (60.5–53.0 MA) STAGE OF MAGMATISM IN THE SOUTH OF THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST." Tikhookeanskaya Geologiya 39, no. 5 (2020): 34–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.30911/0207-4028-2020-39-5-34-40.

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The Sikhote-Alin orogenic belt is a key area for understanding the evolution of the lithospheric plates’ interaction in the East Pacific margin. At the same time the precise isssotope-geochemical and geochronological data for the above said region are of a quite limited and scattered character. The new isotopic age data of the Early Paleogene magmatism are given which allow supplementing the current state of issue and establishing a specific Middle Paleocene–Early Eocene magmatic stage (60.5–53.0 Ma) in the south of the Russian Far East with the A-type acid magmatic rocks predominating during the geodynamic reconstruction of the continental margin.

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Fedorov, P. I., D. V. Kovalenko, T. B. Bayanova, and P. A. Serov. "Early cenozoic magmatism in the continental margin of Kamchatka." Petrology 16, no. 3 (May 2008): 261–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1134/s086959110803003x.

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Johnston, S. "Continental flood basalts: episodic magmatism above long-lived hotspots." Earth and Planetary Science Letters 175, no. 3-4 (February 15, 2000): 247–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0012-821x(99)00293-9.

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Chiaradia, Massimo, Llu�s Fontbot�, and Bernardo Beate. "Cenozoic continental arc magmatism and associated mineralization in Ecuador." Mineralium Deposita 39, no. 2 (March 1, 2004): 204–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00126-003-0397-5.

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de Silva, S. L., N. R. Riggs, and A. P. Barth. "Quickening the Pulse: Fractal Tempos in Continental Arc Magmatism." Elements 11, no. 2 (March 31, 2015): 113–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.2113/gselements.11.2.113.

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WHITE, R. S. "Crustal structure and magmatism of North Atlantic continental margins." Journal of the Geological Society 149, no. 5 (September 1992): 841–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/gsjgs.149.5.0841.

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Ross, Gerald M. "Evolution of Precambrian continental lithosphere in Western Canada: results from Lithoprobe studies in Alberta and beyond." Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 39, no. 3 (March 1, 2002): 413–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e02-012.

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The Precambrian lithosphere of western Canada was assembled into the present crustal configuration between ca. 2.01.78 Ga by plate collisions, sometimes accompanied by arc magmatism, with subsequent cooling of the lithosphere since ca. 1.7 Ga. Collisional processes inferred along preserved plate sutures include (1) subduction of oceanic lithosphere and accretion of Proterozoic arc crust to the western Rae Province; (2) marginal basin consumption and tectonic entrapment of the Hearne Province between coeval subductioncollision zones; and (3) amagmatic marginal basin closure, perhaps analogous to the roots of small collisional orogens, such as the Pyrenees. Seismic reflection profiles acquired during the Lithoprobe Alberta Basement Transect have captured images of syn- to post-collisional structures along these sutures and evidence for crustal-scale thrust imbrication and rigid body accretion of Archean crust with preservation of precollisional tectonic fabric. The degree to which lithospheric mantle beneath Archean crustal blocks was preserved during these collisions is unknown, although tectonic geometries imply significant thermal and (or) mechanical interaction. Post-collisional, intrusive mafic magmatism is imaged widely in both seismic reflection and refraction surveys. These magmatic events are demonstrably Proterozoic, based on crosscutting relationships seen on seismic reflection profiles and geochronology of lower crustal xenoliths, and are comparable in scale to Phanerozoic igneous provinces (e.g., large igneous provinces) but have little preserved surface manifestation. Reactivation of Precambrian basement structures is limited or very subtle, reflecting strength control by the mantle on stress transmission and crustal failure. Long-wavelength elastic deformation of the crust during the Phanerozoic occurred in regions associated with, or adjacent to, Proterozoic mafic magmatism, suggesting local rheologic control of anomalous Phanerozoic paleotopography.

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SINTON, C. W., K. HITCHEN, and R. A. DUNCAN. "40Ar–39Ar geochronology of silicic and basic volcanic rocks on the margins of the North Atlantic." Geological Magazine 135, no. 2 (March 1998): 161–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016756898008401.

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At the submerged margins of the North Atlantic, andesitic to dacitic and basaltic volcanic rocks occur together. The silicic rocks were derived by processes requiring the presence of continental crust (crustal anatexis and/or contamination of mafic magmas) while the majority of the basaltic lavas had little or no contact with continental crust. We report 40Ar–39Ar incremental heating ages for several dacitic and basaltic rocks recovered from three offshore localities of the North Atlantic Igneous Province. Dacitic lavas and tuffs at the southeast Greenland margin and trachytic lavas in the Scottish Hebrides erupted contemporaneously with basaltic lavas at 62–61 Ma. In contrast, the silicic lavas from the northern Rockall Trough (offshore western Scotland) and the Vøring Plateau (offshore Norway) erupted at ∼55 Ma followed shortly by basaltic volcanism. At this time, silicic magmatism at the southeast Greenland margin had ceased and only oceanic basalts were erupted. Similarly, ∼55 Ma lavas on the southwest Rockall Plateau are wholly basaltic. The compositions of all of the dated silicic volcanic rocks are consistent with derivation from partial melting of either continental crust or sediments. The heat necessary for partial melting appears to have been provided by basaltic magmas. Therefore, the existence of the silicic rocks indicates the presence of continental crust as well as a stable tectonic environment that allowed the stagnation and pooling of basaltic melts within the crust. With this in mind, it is apparent that at 62–60 Ma, both western and eastern sides of the present North Atlantic margins were characterized by extensional environments within continental crust that were restrictive to the passage of mafic magmas. By 55 Ma, at the time of continental breakup, the proximal margins at southeast Greenland and the Rockall Plateau were devoid of continental crust. But the presence of 55 Ma silicic magmatism on the eastern North Atlantic margin can be attributed to a broader zone of magmatism and sediment-filled Mesozoic rift basins.

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Chauvet, François, Henriette Lapierre, Delphine Bosch, Stéphane Guillot, Georges Mascle, Jean-Claude Vannay, Jo Cotten, Pierre Brunet, and Francine Keller. "Geochemistry of the Panjal Traps basalts (NW Himalaya): records of the Pangea Permian break-up." Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 179, no. 4 (July 1, 2008): 383–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.2113/gssgfbull.179.4.383.

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AbstractThe late Lower to Middle Permian Panjal Traps (NW Himalaya, India-Pakistan) represent the greatest magmatic province erupted on the northern Indian platform during the Neotethys opening. New geochemical and isotopic analyses were performed on basalts from the eastern borders of the traps (SE Zanskar-NW Spiti area) in order to characterize this volcanism, to discuss its compositional variations in comparison to Panjal counterparts and its relationships with the opening of Neotethys. Lavas show features of tholeiitic low-Ti (< 1.6%) continental flood basalts with LREE, Th enrichments and Nb-Ta negative anomalies. Trace element ratios combined with εNdi values (−3.6 to +0.9) and high Pb isotopic ratios suggest that these tholeiitic basalts were derived from an OIB-like mantle contaminated at various degrees by a continental crust component. Previous geochemical features are broadly similar to those of the coeval Panjal volcanic sequences identified westwards (Ladakh, Kashmir and Pakistan). Present geochemical constraints obtained for the Panjal Traps basalts suggest they originated from rapid effusion of tholeiitic melts during opening of the Neotethys Ocean. Similar magmatism implying an OIB-type reservoir is contemporaneously recognized on and along the adjacent Arabian platform. Both Indian and Arabian Permian volcanics were emplaced during coeval syn-rift to post rift transition. These Lower to Middle Permian south Neotethyan continental flood magmatism are regarded as associated to a passive rifting. In this scheme, OIB-type isotopic signature would be related either to a melting episode of syn-rift up-welling mantle plumes or to a melting of a regional abnormally hot and enriched mantle.

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Lee, Tae-Ho, and Kye-Hun Park. "Detrital Zircon U-Pb Geochronology and Hf Isotope Geochemistry of the Hayang Group, SE Korea and the Himenoura and Goshoura Groups, SW Japan: Signs of Subduction-Related Magmatism after a Long Resting Period." Minerals 10, no. 11 (October 22, 2020): 936. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/min10110936.

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There was a hiatus in magmatism in Korea and Japan, located on the eastern continental margin of Asia, during a period of about 40 Ma from 160 Ma to 120 Ma. The cause of the resumption of magmatism since then is not yet well understood. In this study, we analyzed the Hf isotope composition of detrital zircons in the Cretaceous sediments of Korea (Hayang Group) and Japan (Goshoura and Himenoura groups) to investigate the tectonic evolution of eastern Asia in the Early Cretaceous period. εHf(t) in Cretaceous zircons from Japanese samples values from +8.2 to +0.1, suggesting that magmatism was sourced from the depleted juvenile materials, which is compatible with ridge subduction and subsequent melting of the young oceanic crust. εHf(t) values from Cretaceous zircons in the Hayang Group are negative, except for the Jindong Formation, which had a sediment supply from Japan, indicating that the old continental crust material of the Korean Peninsula was included in the magma generation. The detrital zircons of this study exhibit a depleted isotopic character at the beginning of subduction-related magmatism in Permian and Early Cretaceous, and then gradually change to a more enriched composition. This trend may be a typical example of the Pacific-type orogenic cycle.

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