The Central Asian Orogenic Belt is one of the largest accretionary terrains on Earth and records a ca. 800 Ma history of arc and microcontinent accretion, from south to north, during evolution and closure of the southwest ...

The Ural mountains preserve a late Palaeozoic collision that forms a 2500 km suture in the world's largest landmass, Eurasia. Several features of the mountain belt, in particular a well-preserved crustal root, are ...

Dauphas et al. [Astrophys. J. 565 (2002) 640–644] reported molybdenum isotopic anomalies in differentiated and bulk primitive meteorites. It is shown here that these isotopic anomalies correlate with one another in exactly ...