The surveys of natural gamma-emitting radionuclides in rocks and soils from the Ezine plutonic area were conducted during 2007. Direct dose measurement using a survey meter was carried out simultaneously. The present study, which is part of the survey, analysed the activity concentrations of U, Th and K in granitoid samples from all over the region by HPGe gamma spectrometry. The activity conce...

We welcome Zhang et al.’s comment on our recent paper dealing with the significance of the first geochemical and geochronological analyses of deep drill-core samples collected from the basement of the central Tarim basin (Guo et al., 2005). In their comments, Zhang et al. raised three questions with regard to our paper (1) the compatibility of our model with regional geology, (2) our interpreta...

Several Archean granitoid-greenstone terranes are exposed on the southeastern Kaapvaal craton in South Africa, but they received little scientific attention compared to archetypal greenstone belt successions of Barberton Mountain Land at eastern margin. This study reports a detailed field and geochemical survey Buffalo River Greenstone Belt southern margin KwaZulu-Natal, with focus hitherto uns...

Samuel A. Bowring and Todd Housh (1) report Sm/Nd isotopic data giving a wide range of initial ENd values, from +3.5 to -4 at 4.0 billion years ago (Ga) and from +4 to -7 at 3.6 Ga. Their samples were from the Acasta gneisses of northern Canada, which represent the oldest known outcrops of continental crust (2). Their modeling of the Sm-Nd isotopic data is taken to suggest that the Acasta grani...

The supergiant Shizhuyuan W–Sn–Bi–Mo deposit is hosted by the Qianlishan granite, a small, highly fractionated granitic pluton (∼ 10 km) with multiple phases of intrusions within the Early Yanshanian granitoid province of SE China. Strong alteration of skarn and greisen that formed in the contact zone between the first and second phases of granite intrusions and Devonian limestone is responsibl...