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Volume 338 | 2010

The Evolving Continents: Understanding Processes of Continental Growth

Edited By:

T. M. Kusky, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan

M.-G. Zhai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China and

W. Xiao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

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https://doi.org/10.1144/SP338.0
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Free Access1 January 2010
The evolving continents: understanding processes of continental growth – introduction
  • Timothy M. Kusky,
  • Mingguo Zhai, and
  • Wenjiao Xiao
https://doi.org/10.1144/SP338.1

Oceanic and Island Arc Systems and Continental Growth

1 January 2010
The anatomy and ontogeny of modern intra-oceanic arc systems
  • Robert J. Stern
https://doi.org/10.1144/SP338.2
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1 January 2010
Transitions among Mariana-, Japan-, Cordillera- and Alaska-type arc systems and their final juxtapositions leading to accretionary and collisional orogenesis
  • Wenjiao Xiao,
  • Chunming Han,
  • Chao Yuan,
  • Min Sun,
  • Guochun Zhao, and
  • Yehua Shan
https://doi.org/10.1144/SP338.3
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Tectonics of Accretionary Orogens and Continental Growth

1 January 2010
Ocean plate stratigraphy and its imbrication in an accretionary orogen: the Mona Complex, Anglesey–Lleyn, Wales, UK
  • S. Maruyama,
  • T. Kawai, and
  • B. F. Windley
https://doi.org/10.1144/SP338.4
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1 January 2010
Orogens in the evolving Earth: from surface continents to ‘lost continents’ at the core–mantle boundary
  • M. Santosh,
  • Shigenori Maruyama,
  • Tsuyoshi Komiya, and
  • Shinji Yamamoto
https://doi.org/10.1144/SP338.5
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1 January 2010
The Khanka Block, NE China, and its significance for the evolution of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt and continental accretion
  • Simon A. Wilde,
  • Fu-Yuan Wu, and
  • Guochun Zhao
https://doi.org/10.1144/SP338.6
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Growth and Stabilization of Continental Crust: Collisions and Intraplate Processes

1 January 2010
Petrology, chemistry and phase relations of borosilicate phases in phlogopite diopsidites and granitic pegmatites from the Tranomaro belt, SE Madagascar; boron-fluid evolution
  • Théodore Razakamanana,
  • Brian F. Windley, and
  • Dietrich Ackermand
https://doi.org/10.1144/SP338.7
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1 January 2010
Reconstruction and interpretation of giant mafic dyke swarms: a case study of 1.78 Ga magmatism in the North China craton
  • Peng Peng
https://doi.org/10.1144/SP338.8
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Precambrian Tectonics and the Birth of Continents

1 January 2010
The role of geochronology in understanding continental evolution
  • Alfred Kröner
https://doi.org/10.1144/SP338.9
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1 January 2010
Chromitites from the Fiskenæsset anorthositic complex, West Greenland: clues to late Archaean mantle processes
  • Hugh Rollinson,
  • Claire Reid, and
  • Brian Windley
https://doi.org/10.1144/SP338.10
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1 January 2010
A buried Palaeoproterozoic spreading ridge in the northern Nagssugtoqidian orogen, West Greenland
  • Adam A. Garde and
  • Julie A. Hollis
https://doi.org/10.1144/SP338.11
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1 January 2010
Precambrian key tectonic events and evolution of the North China craton
  • Mingguo Zhai,
  • Tie-Sheng Li,
  • Peng Peng,
  • Bo Hu,
  • Fu Liu, and
  • Yanbin Zhang
https://doi.org/10.1144/SP338.12
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1 January 2010
Mesoarchaean to Palaeoproterozoic growth of the northern segment of the Itabuna–Salvador–Curaçá orogen, São Francisco craton, Brazil
  • E. P. Oliveira,
  • N. J. McNaughton, and
  • R. Armstrong
https://doi.org/10.1144/SP338.13
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Active Tectonics and Geomorphology of Continental Collision and Growth Zones

1 January 2010
A Review of the geology and tectonics of the Kohistan island arc, north Pakistan
  • Michael G. Petterson
https://doi.org/10.1144/SP338.14
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1 January 2010
Roles of strike-slip faults during continental deformation: examples from the active Arabia–Eurasia collision
  • Mark B. Allen
https://doi.org/10.1144/SP338.15
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1 January 2010
Was Late Cretaceous–Paleocene obduction of ophiolite complexes the primary cause of crustal thickening and regional metamorphism in the Pakistan Himalaya?
  • M. P. Searle and
  • P. J. Treloar
https://doi.org/10.1144/SP338.16
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1 January 2010
Tectonic setting and structural evolution of the Late Cenozoic Gobi Altai orogen
  • Dickson Cunningham
https://doi.org/10.1144/SP338.17
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1 January 2010
Landscape development of the Himalayan–Tibetan orogen: a review
  • Lewis A. Owen
https://doi.org/10.1144/SP338.18
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