The 2.95–2.82 Ga quartzofeldspathic gneisses and granitoids in the Bighorn, western Owl Creek, and northeastern Wind River uplifts in the central Wyoming Province include low-K tonalite–trondhjemite–granodiorite (TTG) and high-K granodiorite–granite (GG) rocks. Both types of granitoids were intruded contemporaneously, although TTGs are more abundant in the older gneisses. The TTG suite consists...

Abstract Rapakivi-type quartz monzonite and the underlying dark-grey granodiorite from Pietkowo IG1 borehole, in Polish part of southernmost Fennoscandia have been investigated using whole-rock geochemistry, Sm–Nd isotope geochemistry U–Pb zircon dating. The was emplaced at 1495–1491 Ma, although slightly older cores (antecrysts) 1513 Ma imply a two-stage crystallization. geochemical similariti...

The Saglek-Hebron Complex (SHC) located in Northern Labrador, Canada, includes some of the oldest crustal rocks on Earth. This granite-greenstone terrain is dominated by trondhjemite, Mg-rich tonalite, granite, with subordinate granodiorite, and recorded over one billion years early magmatic history between ∼3900 Ma ∼2700 Ma. New in-situ U-Pb analyses zircons from eighteen rock samples, suggest...

Present study attempts to understand the potential of multispectral ASTER (Advanced space borne thermal emission and reflection radiometer) data for spatial mapping of kimberlite. Kimberlite is an economic rock known for hosting diamond. Kimberlite also has petrogenetic importance for giving us clue on the composition of lower part of the mantle. Kimberlites often contain serpentine, carbonate ...

Modern plate tectonic brings down oceanic crust along subduction zones where it either dehydrates or melts. Those hydrous fluids or melts migrate into the overlying mantle wedge trigerring its melting which produces arc magmas and thus additional continental crust. Nowadays, melting seems to be restricted to cases of young (< 50 Ma) subducted plates. Slab melts are silicic and strongly sodic (t...

Extreme uplift associated with the formation of the 2.02 Ga Vredefort dome has exposed a substantial cross section through the crystalline early Archean basement complex rocks of the Kaapvaal craton. The rocks comprise polydeformed high-grade tonalite–trondhjemite–granodiorite (TTG) gneisses, migmatites and late-tectonic intrusive granitoids that straddle the upper amphibolite-to granulite–faci...

The radionuclide concentrations of eU (ppm), eTh K (%) and dose rate values were measured in Sarıçiçek (Gümüşhane) Sarıhan (Bayburt) granodiorites for a duration 5 minutes at each 532 measurement points. radioelement ratios (eU/eTh, eU/K, eTh/K) indicating the origins rocks, geochemical indicators (Ume, F parameter, eU-(eTh/3,5) rate) showing uranium mobility calculated mapped within study area...

principal skarn deposits along the northern margin of the ahar batholith from west to east include mazraeh, vine and gowdoul skarn deposits. among these skarn deposits, the mazraeh cu-fe skarn deposit is the most typical skarn deposit in the nw iran. this skarn deposit is located 5 km. north of mazraeh village and 20 km north of ahar town. the origin and development of the skarn can be related ...