Direct constraints on the ascent, storage and eruption of mantle melts come primarily from exhumed, long-frozen intrusions. These structures, relics of a dynamic magma transport network, encode how Earth’s crust grows and di erentiates over time. Furthermore, they connect mantle melting to an evolving distribution of surface volcanism. Disentangling magma transport processes from the plutonic r...

The study area is a part of the Sanandaj-Sirjan metamorphic belt comprising lowto high-grade regional and contact metamorphic rocks that are intruded by various plutonic bodies. Garnet crystals are abundant in pelitic schists, amphibole schists, migmatites, hornfelses and aplites. They are mostly almandinerich (XAlm>60) pyralspite garnets and show dodecahedron, trapezohedron and mixed (dodecahe...

Mafic enclaves from three plutons in the Chilliwack batholith have been compared with contemporaneous mafic stocks in order to determine (1) the processes by which mafic and felsic magmas hybridize in the plutonic environment and (2) whether analysis of early-formed enclave minerals, particularly apatite, can provide a means of seeing through hybridization effects and deciphering the original t...

[1] Paleomagnetic studies of the 91 Ma Ecstall pluton and other Cretaceous plutons of British Columbia imply large northward tectonic movements (>2000 km) may have occurred during the tectonic evolution of western North America. However, more recent studies have shown that the eastern edge of the Ecstall pluton experienced considerable mineralogical changes as younger Eocene plutons, such as th...

With the properties of laterites being related to nature rock from which they are derived, twenty vertical electrical surveys and boreholes for geotechnical tests, distributed in two units (plutonic green belt zones) Ntem complex located at northern limit Congo Craton, were implemented study formation process this geological structure. The inversion geoelectrical data plutonic area resulted thr...

Abstract We reject the notion of a Jurassic continental arc in eastern Mexico, termed “Nazas arc,” on geologic grounds. Instead, we propose that SW Cordilleran U.S. and northern Sonora, passed southward into oceanic realm is represented by volcanic plutonic rocks fringed Mexican paleo-Pacific margin, which are currently found western Peninsular Ranges southern California, USA, Baja Vizcaino Pen...