The Alps preserve abundant oceanic blueschists and eclogites that exemplify the selective preservation of fragments of relatively short-lived, small, slow-spreading North Atlantic-type ocean basins ...

The Jequitinhonha Complex of the northeastern Araçuaí orogen is an extensive sedimentary unit metamorphosed in the amphibolite-granulite facies transition around 580-545 Ma. The unit consists of ...

Earth exhibits a distinct bimodal distribution of continental and oceanic crust, a feature that differentiates it from other terrestrial planets in the solar system (Dilek and Polat, 2008; Dhuime et ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

ABSTRACT: The determination of the mineralogical composition of rocks that underlie Okom-Ita area, in Oban Massif became necessary for the interpretation of the petrogenesis and protoliths of rocks in ...

“The idea that the continents originally formed at sites of giant meteorite impacts had been around for decades, but until now there was little solid evidence to support the theory,” said lead author ...

Mass transfer in rocks provides a direct record of fluid–rock interaction within the Earth, including metamorphism, metasomatism, and hydrothermal alteration. However, mass transfer analyses are ...

The onset of modern plate tectonic regime on Earth became increasingly controversial in recent years because of the lack of continuously newly found records of subduction and collision. Here, we ...

On Earth, igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks are recycled from the surface to upper mantle depths and subsequently returned to the surface as a result of tectonic and sedimentary processes.