The processes leading to the assembly of Rodinia supercontinent through Grenvillian collisional orogeny are relatively well known. In contrast, accretionary orogenic occurring at periphery following poorly understood. To fill this gap, we have identified metamorphic rocks in Mongolia collage Central Asian Orogenic Belt, where numerous data testify for Meso- Neoproterozoic magmatic reworking. te...

Abstract As one of the widest terranes exposed in icy Antarctica, Larsemann Hills Prydz Bay belt preserves diverse rock types with a complex metamorphic history and thus is critical to tectono-metamorphic evolution East Antarctica. Garnet-sillimanite-spinel-cordierite-bearing garnet-orthopyroxene-bearing granulites are typical rocks region. Phase equilibrium modelling mineral thermometry based ...

With the discovery of Kuiper Belt binaries that have wide separations and roughly equal masses new theories were proposed to explain their formation. Two formation scenarios were suggested by Goldreich and collaborators: In the first, dynamical friction that is generated by the sea of small bodies enables a transient binary to become bound (Ls mechanism); in the second, a transient binary gets ...

Context. The fidelity of smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations of accretion disks depends on how artificial viscosity (AV) is formulated. Aims. We investigate whether standard methodology is reliable in this regard. Methods. We test the operation of two methods for selective application of AV in SPH simulations of Keplerian accretion disks, using a ring spreading test to quantify ef...