The metamorphic reworking of mineralized pegmatites during orogenesis remains unclear, making the genesis and tectonomagmatic significance pegmatite mineralization obscure. This study demonstrates multiple utilities titanite geochemistry in establishing Caledonian evolution world’s largest intra-plutonic Nb-Y-F Paleoproterozoic host rocks Tysfjord, Northern Norway. A combination titanite-specif...

Citation: Henke BA, Turk-Kubo KA, Bonnet S and Zehr JP (2018) Distributions and Abundances of Sublineages of the N2-Fixing Cyanobacterium Candidatus Atelocyanobacterium thalassa (UCYN-A) in the New Caledonian Coral Lagoon. Front. Microbiol. 9:554. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00554 Distributions and Abundances of Sublineages of the N2-Fixing Cyanobacterium Candidatus Atelocyanobacterium thalassa (UC...

Abstract. The Slyne Basin, located offshore NW Ireland, is a narrow and elongated basin composed of series interconnected grabens half-grabens, separated by transfer zones coincident with deep crustal structures formed during the Silurian- to Devonian-aged Caledonian Orogeny. product complex, polyphase structural evolution stretching from Permian Miocene. Initially, relatively low-strain riftin...

Abstract The Seve Nappe Complex (SNC) comprises continental rocks of Baltica that were subducted and exhumed during the Caledonian orogeny prior to collision with Laurentia. tectonic history central SNC is investigated by applying in-situ zircon monazite (Th-)U–Pb geochronology trace element analysis (ultra-)high pressure (UHP) paragneisses in Avardo Marsfjället gneisses. Zircons Gneiss exposed...

Magmatic and tectonic processes can transport large volumes of magma generated in the deep crust as discrete pulses to shallower crustal depths, resulting incremental construction large, composite batholiths over thousands tens millions years. The Silurian Early Devonian Donegal batholith Ireland is a classic example which regional geological syntheses lithogeochemical data show that emplacemen...

The origin of the astonishing New Caledonian biota continues to fuel a heated debate among advocates of a Gondwanan relict scenario and defenders of late oceanic dispersal. Here, we study the origin of New Caledonian Trigonopterus flightless weevils using a multimarker molecular phylogeny. We infer two independent clades of species found in the archipelago. Our dating estimates suggest a Late M...

Four crustal xenoliths from Scotland have been dissected in order to evaluate the effects of magma-xenolith interaction on Rb-Sr and Sm-Nd isotopic systematics, and hence the use of the xenoliths for accurate determination of source compositions. Each xenolith was sampled from the edge to the center, The Nd isotopic compositions are virtually uniform across each xenolith; however, there are sig...