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Granulite
About: Granulite is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 6763 publications have been published within this topic receiving 268925 citations.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the possibility that the Khanka/Jiamusi/Bureya block may have originated in Siberia and once formed part of the Sayan-Baikal orogen at ∼500 ǫ.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a high-velocity lower crustal dome marked by a strong amplitude reflection (T Reflection) is described below the north Gjallar Ridge (NGR) near the volcanic plateau formed during the late Paleocene-Early Eocene breakup.
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TL;DR: The Archaean complex of Greenland consists of a layered sequence of gneisses whose history can be traced back from 2,600 m.y. to before 3,750 m.dy as discussed by the authors.
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TL;DR: In this article, the systematics of granulite facies rocks from Fyfe Hills, Enderby Land, Antarctica are described and compared to those of the U.S.
Abstract: Sm–Nd, Rb–Sr and U–Th–Pb systematics of granulite facies rocks from Fyfe Hills, Enderby Land, Antarctica
143 citations
TL;DR: Using a simplified petrogenetic grid and a one-dimensional thermal model to compute the evolution of the density of the crust with time, the contribution to the uplift of Tibet of metamorphic transitions in the lower crust is shown to be large as mentioned in this paper.
143 citations