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0000-0002-3050-6753
Current Organisation
Durham University
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Publisher: Mineralogical Society of America
Date: 31-03-2015
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2009
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 23-06-2021
DOI: 10.1038/S41467-021-24139-Z
Abstract: Constraining thickness and geothermal gradient of Archean continental crust are crucial to understanding geodynamic regimes of the early Earth. Archean crust-sourced tonalitic–trondhjemitic–granodioritic gneisses are ideal lithologies for reconstructing the thermal state of early continental crust. Integrating experimental results with petrochemical data from the Eastern Block of the North China Craton allows us to establish temporal–spatial variations in thickness, geothermal gradient and basal heat flow across the block, which we relate to cooling mantle potential temperature and resultant changing geodynamic regimes from vertical tectonics in the late Mesoarchean (~2.9 Ga) to plate tectonics with hot subduction in the early to late Neoarchean (~2.7–2.5 Ga). Here, we show the transition to a plate tectonic regime plays an important role in the rapid cooling of the mantle, and thickening and strengthening of the lithosphere, which in turn prompted stabilization of the cratonic lithosphere at the end of the Archean.
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
Date: 15-05-2023
DOI: 10.5194/EGUSPHERE-EGU23-14047
Abstract: The Arabia-Eurasia collision, which started during Late Eocene (~35 Ma) or afterward across the Bitlis-Zagros suture, resulted in the formation of the Turkish & #8211 Iranian Plateau. Even though the average elevation throughout the plateau is around 2 km, the lithospheric structures between East Anatolian and the Iranian parts may be different. For instance, seismological studies suggest that East Anatolia is underlain by anomalously low-speed anomalies/hot asthenosphere whereas the Iranian part is associated with a rather thick ( km in some places) and strong lithosphere. Therefore, the area may be regarded as two distinct regions, namely, the East Anatolian Plateau and the Iranian Plateau. The growth of the plateau is mostly attributed to slab break-off combined with crustal shortening. Other processes often associated with the collision are lithospheric delamination and tectonic escape of microplates. These hypotheses suggested for the growth of the plateau are yet to fully explain the dualistic nature of the lithosphere in a region where elevations are roughly similar. In this work, by using 2D numerical experiments we aim to investigate the physical, geometric, and rheological parameters affecting the deformation of the plate during pre-, syn-, and post-collision. Our preliminary model results show an extension (up to ~70 km) on the terrane that is dragged behind the subducting plate, while the overriding plate undergoes shortening during the collision. The collision results in ~100 km of underthrusting in 50 Myrs which is in the range for the measured amounts of underthrusting across the plateau. We aim to expand the study by creating comparative model sets (i.e., models representing East Anatolia vs. models representing Iran) with a parameterization of varying lithospheric structures (e.g., different crust and mantle thicknesses), and strength profiles, which will help us to understand the kinematics and dynamics of such orogenic growth.
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Date: 16-04-2018
DOI: 10.1144/SP478.6
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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