The Pulse of the Earth

Search results

• 2025

  A geochemical and isotopic outline on the Alto Moxotó Terrane: a record of the best-preserved Paleoproterozoic crust in the central Borborema province, NE Brazil

  da Paixão, M. S., de Lira Santos, L. C. M., Dantas, E. L. & Cawood, P. A., 5 May 2025, In: Journal of the Geological Society. 182, 3, 16 p., jgs2024-130.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › Research › peer-review

• Linking Hainan to Indochina through tectono-thermal records in metasedimentary rocks

  Zhang, L., Chen, S., Cawood, P. A., Cui, X. & Wang, Y., Mar 2025, In: Precambrian Research. 418, 12 p., 107682.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

• Mercury evidence of Emeishan volcanism driving the mid-Capitanian (Middle Permian) extinction

  Huang, H., Deng, C., Grasby, S. E., Cawood, P. A., Hou, M., Yang, C., Feng, M., Xiong, F., Zhong, H. & Yin, R., Mar 2025, In: GSA Bulletin. 137, 3-4, p. 1177-1184 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  6   Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)

• Middle Neoproterozoic (ca. 715 Ma) slab window along the Yangtze northern margin: Constrained from meta-mafic igneous records

  Zhang, F., Wang, M., Cawood, P. A., Dong, Y., Wang, Y., Hui, B., He, S. & Gao, H., Jan 2025, In: Precambrian Research. 416, 24 p., 107630.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  4   Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)

• Nature and tectonic setting of the Paleotethyan giant igneous belt in Southeast Asia

  Qian, X., Jin, S., Wang, Y., Cawood, P. A., Yu, Y., Udchachon, M., Mustapha, K. A., Sheldrick, T. C., Zhang, Y. & Gan, C., May 2025, In: Gondwana Research. 141, p. 228-245 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  3   Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)

• Neoproterozoic tectonic shift along the western margin of the Yangtze block, South China craton: Implications for its paleogeographic position during the Rodinia–Gondwana transition

  Qi, L., Hou, M., Cawood, P. A., Xiong, F., Peng, T. & Huang, H., 1 Jan 2025, In: GSA Bulletin. 137, 1-2, p. 391-410 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  8   Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)

• Non-arc setting for “Cadomian” magmatism in Iran and Anatolia

  Zoleikhaei, Y., Cawood, P. A. & Mulder, J. A., Mar 2025, In: Geoscience Frontiers. 16, 2, 16 p., 101995.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  Open Access

  4   Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)

• Provenance of the Mesoproterozoic Shennongjia Group in the north Yangtze Block, South China, and implications for reconstructions of the Nuna and Rodinia supercontinents

  Yang, J., Hu, L., Cawood, P. A. & Du, Y., 1 Mar 2025, In: GSA Bulletin. 137, 3-4, p. 1437-1455 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  4   Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)

• Quantifying Magma Water Contents: A New Entrainment Model for Charnockite Formation

  Yang, H., Yao, J., Cawood, P. A., Zhao, G., Han, Y., Li, X., Liu, Q., Zhang, D., Wang, X. & Guo, Y., Jan 2025, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 130, 1, 20 p., e2024JB029753.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  3   Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)

• Volcanic CO₂ emissions from subduction of the tropical Paleo-Tethyan Ocean contributed to the early Permian deglacial warming

  Feng, W., Yang, J., Cawood, P. A., Ma, R., Zhou, Y. & Cui, Y., 15 Jun 2025, In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 660, 13 p., 119361.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  6   Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)

• 2024

  Anorthosites produced by water-fluxed anatexis of deep arc gabbros, Gangdese batholith, Tibet

  Dong, P., Weinberg, R. F., Zhu, D. C., Green, E. C. R., Yi, J., Cawood, P. A., Li, S. M. & Chen, S., 15 Dec 2024, In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 648, 14 p., 119093.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  5   Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)

• Compositional change from high-Mg to low-Mg magmatism at ca. 150 Ma in the central Lhasa terrane, Tibet: Switching from advancing to retreating subduction of the Bangong Tethyan slab

  An, Y., Li, S. M., Zhu, D. C., Cawood, P. A., Wang, Q., Xie, J. C., Zhang, L. L. & Zhao, Z., 1 Jan 2024, In: GSA Bulletin. 136, 1-2, p. 689-706 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  2   Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)

• Detrital zircon REE and tectonic settings

  Hu, P. Y., Zhai, Q. G., Cawood, P. A., Weinberg, R. F., Zhao, G. C., Zhou, R. J., Tang, Y. & Liu, Y. M., Sept 2024, In: Lithos. 480-481, 12 p., 107661.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  29   Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)

• Double subduction controls on long-lived continental tectonics and subcontinental mantle temperatures

  Li, L. S., Capitanio, F. A., Cawood, P. A., Wu, B. J., Zhai, M. G. & Wang, X. L., 19 Aug 2024, In: Geology. 52, 11, p. 836-840 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  Open Access

  4   Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)

• Early Cretaceous intrusive rocks in the Gangdese arc of southern Tibet do not support shallow subduction of the Neo-Tethyan oceanic lithosphere

  Wang, F., Wang, Q., Zhu, D. C., Li, S. M., Cawood, P. A., Wang, R. Q., Yi, J. K., Zhang, L. L. & Xie, J. C., May 2024, In: Lithos. 472-473, 15 p., 107551.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  7   Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)

• Early Earth “subduction”: short-lived, off-craton, shuffle tectonics, and no plate boundaries

  Nebel, O., Vandenburg, E. D., Capitanio, F. A., Smithies, R. H., Mulder, J. & Cawood, P. A., 15 Jul 2024, In: Precambrian Research. 408, 17 p., 107431.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  Open Access

  11   Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)

• Early Neoarchean alternation of plate subduction and deep mantle upwelling

  Wang, W., Liu, S., Cawood, P. A., Yao, J., Gao, L., Guo, R., Hu, F., Lu, D. & He, X., Mar 2024, In: Precambrian Research. 402, 12 p., 107303.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  10   Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)

• Early Paleozoic extensional tectonics along Gondwana's northern margin: Insights from Iran

  Zoleikhaei, Y., Mulder, J. A. & Cawood, P. A., Apr 2024, In: Gondwana Research. 128, p. 106-126 21 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  6   Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)

• Evidence for, and significance of, the Neoproterozoic Xuefeng Orogeny, South China

  Liu, J., Xu, Y., Cawood, P. A., Liu, Y., Xiao, H., Liu, G. & Zhang, J., 1 Sept 2024, In: Precambrian Research. 411, 18 p., 107532.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  3   Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)

• Evidence suggesting that earth had a ring in the Ordovician

  Tomkins, A. G., Martin, E. L. & Cawood, P. A., 15 Nov 2024, In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 646, 11 p., 118991.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  10   Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)

• Exploring the orogenic nature of the Cariris Velhos event (ca. 1000-920 Ma) of the Borborema Province (NE Brazil)

  Lira Santos, L. C. M., Paixão, M. S., Lages, G. A., Caxito, F. A., Cawood, P. A., Oliveira, E. P. & Lima, H. M., Jan 2024, In: Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 133, 13 p., 104727.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  10   Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)

• Felsic crust development in the Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa: A reference sample collection to investigate a billion years of geological history

  Moyen, J. F., McCoy-West, A. J., Bruand, E., Millet, M. A., Nebel, O., Cawood, P. A., Saji, N., Ladwig, A., Klaver, M. & Elburg, M., Mar 2024, In: Earth-Science Reviews. 250, 35 p., 104680.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › Research › peer-review

  Open Access

  10   Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)

• Generation of isotopically enriched giant Lincang Batholith by disequilibrium melting of the heterogeneous lower crust

  Xie, J. C., Zhu, D. C., Wang, Q., Cawood, P. A., Zhao, Z. D., Zhan, Q. Y., Fan, J. H. & Wang, Y., 1 Dec 2024, In: Lithos. 488-489, 15 p., 107803.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  3   Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)

• Geochemical and isotopic evidence for early neoproterozoic (ca. 1000 Ma) subduction-related magmatism in the central Borborema Province, Brazil

  Paixão, M. S., Santos, L. C. M. L., Dantas, E. L. & Cawood, P. A., May 2024, In: Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 137, 15 p., 104846.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  3   Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)

• In situ U-Pb dating of Jurassic dinosaur bones from Sichuan Basin, South China

  Qi, L., Hou, M., Mulder, J. A., Cawood, P. A., Guo, Y., Wu, S., Jiao, L., Zhang, X. & Ouyang, H., 1 Mar 2024, In: Geology. 52, 3, p. 216-221 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  3   Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)

• Linking kimberlite magmatism in the Brazilian Platform with Pangea break-up events using in situ Rb-Sr in phlogopite

  Almeida, V. V., Ribeiro, B. V., Rodrigues, J. B., Cawood, P. A., Neto, I. C., Silveira, F. V., Faleiros, F. M. & Kirscher, U., Mar 2024, In: Lithos. 468-469, 17 p., 107486.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  3   Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)

• Lower crustal hot zones as zircon incubators: Inherited zircon antecryts in diorites from a mafic mush reservoir

  Lim, H., Nebel, O., Weinberg, R. F., Nebel-Jacobsen, Y., Barrote, V. R., Park, J., Myeong, B. & Cawood, P. A., 15 Jan 2024, In: Geological Society Special Publications. 537, 1, p. 411-433 23 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research

  Open Access

  23   Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)

• Low δ¹⁸O and δ³⁰Si TTG at ca. 2.3 Ga Hints at an Intraplate Rifting Onset of the Paleoproterozoic Supercontinent Cycle

  Zhou, Y., Zhai, M., Mitchell, R. N., Cawood, P. A., Huang, G., Spencer, C. J., Chen, M., Li, Y., Zhao, T. & Wu, T., Mar 2024, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 129, 3, 22 p., e2023JB027306.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  13   Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)

• Mid-Neoproterozoic (ca. 845 Ma) metamorphism of the southwestern Yangtze Block and its tectonic implications

  Yang, Z., Cawood, P. A., Zi, J. W., Gou, L. L., Liu, G. C., Liu, R. & Xu, X. F., Jan 2024, In: Precambrian Research. 400, 19 p., 107267.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  Open Access

  16   Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)

• OIB-type mafic–ultramafic rocks in South Guangxi, South China: A record of interaction between Paleo-Tethys subduction and Emeishan large Igneous Province

  Hu, L., Cawood, P. A., Du, Y., Zhu, D., Lai, Z., Wang, Q. & Yang, J., Mar 2024, In: Lithos. 468-469, 17 p., 107497.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  6   Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)

• Proterozoic tectonics of eastern South China: From ca. 1.45 Ga rifting in the interior of Columbia to a long-lived convergent orogen at the periphery of Rodinia

  Wang, Y., Zhang, Y., Cawood, P. A., Wang, C. & Gan, C., Feb 2024, In: Earth-Science Reviews. 249, 29 p., 104652.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › Research › peer-review

  15   Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)

• Recognizing big mantle wedges in deep time: Constraints from the Western Mongolia Collage in Central Asia

  Cui, X., Cawood, P. A., Sun, M. & Zhao, G., 1 May 2024, In: Geology. 52, 5, p. 341-346 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  8   Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)

• Simplifying silver isotope analysis of metallic samples: using silver nitrate precipitation to avoid perilous chloride formation

  McCoy-West, A. J., Davis, A. M., Wainwright, A. N. & Tomkins, A. G., 1 Mar 2024, In: Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry. 39, 3, p. 780-790 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  2   Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)

• Speculations on the Paleozoic legacy of Gondwana amalgamation

  Brendan Murphy, J., Damian Nance, R., Johnston, S. T., Casas, J. M., Cawood, P. A., Matheson, E. J., Pufahl, P. K., Dan, W., Javier Álvaro, J., Heron, P. J. & Strachan, R. A., May 2024, In: Gondwana Research. 129, p. 107-131 25 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  17   Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)

• Syn-emplacement ophiolites and relationship to supercontinent cycle

  Cawood, P. A., Merdith, A. S. & Murphy, J. B., 1 Sept 2024, In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 641, 11 p., 118810.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  8   Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)

• Tectonic processes and the evolution of the continental crust

  Hawkesworth, C., Cawood, P. A., Dhuime, B. & Kemp, T., 1 Jul 2024, In: Journal of the Geological Society. 181, 4, 15 p., jgs2024-027.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  Open Access

  32   Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)

• Temporal-spatial patterns of Mesozoic Paleo-Pacific and Tethyan supra-subduction systems in SE Asia: Key observations and controversies in Borneo and its surroundings

  Wang, Y., Qian, X., Cawood, P. A., Gan, C., Zhang, Y., Zhang, F., Asis, J. B., Yan, Y. & Wang, C., May 2024, In: Earth-Science Reviews. 252, 104762.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › Research › peer-review

  14   Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)

• The tectonics of introversion and extroversion: redefining interior and exterior oceans in the supercontinent cycle

  Martin, E. L., Cawood, P. A., Murphy, J. B., Nance, R. D. & Heron, P. J., 23 Apr 2024, Supercontinents, Orogenesis and Magmatism. Nance, R. D., Strachan, R. A., Quesada, C. & Lin, S. (eds.). 1 ed. Bath, United Kingdom: Geological Society of London, Vol. 542. p. 15-29 15 p. (Geological Society Special Publications; vol. 542, no. 1).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Other

  Open Access

  12   Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)

• Zircons reveal the history of fluctuations in oxidation state of crustal magmatism and supercontinent cycle

  Wang, R., Wu, S. C., Weinberg, R. F., Collins, W. J. & Cawood, P. A., 15 Jan 2024, In: Science Bulletin. 69, 1, p. 97-102 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  9   Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)

• 2023

  A Laurentian affinity for the Embu Terrane, Ribeira Belt (SE Brazil), revealed by zircon provenance statistical analysis

  Ribeiro, B. V., Faleiros, F. M., Campanha, G. A. C., Cawood, P. A., Kirkland, C. L., Barham, M., Martin, E. L., Seraine, M., Cabrita, D. I. G., Yogi, M. T. A. G., Almeida, V. V., Forero-Ortega, A. J. A. & Dantas, E. L., Jan 2023, In: Geoscience Frontiers. 14, 1, 13 p., 101477.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  Open Access

  12   Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)

• A machine learning method for distinguishing detrital zircon provenance

  Zhong, S. H., Liu, Y., Li, S. Z., Bindeman, I. N., Cawood, P. A., Seltmann, R., Niu, J. H., Guo, G. H. & Liu, J. Q., Jun 2023, In: Contributions of Mineralogy and Petrology. 178, 6, 17 p., 35.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  Open Access

  52   Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)

• An amphibolitic source for “adakitic” I-type plutons in continental collision zones

  Li, Q. W., Nebel, O., Zhao, J. H., Wang, R., Jacobsen, Y., Richter, M., Wang, Q. & Cawood, P. A., 1 Oct 2023, In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 619, 10 p., 118324.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  4   Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)

• A record of Neoarchaean cratonisation from the Storø Supracrustal Belt, West Greenland

  Gardiner, N. J., Mulder, J. A., Szilas, K., Nebel, O., Whitehouse, M., Jeon, H. & Cawood, P. A., 15 Jan 2023, In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 602, 10 p., 117922.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  10   Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)

• A refined Archean-Paleoproterozoic magmatic framework of the Cuoke Complex, SW China, and its implications for early Precambrian evolution of the Yangtze Block

  Yang, Z., Zi, J. W., Cawood, P. A., Zhao, T., Liu, G., Li, J., Zhang, H., Wei, Y. & Feng, Q., Jan 2023, In: Precambrian Research. 384, 16 p., 106921.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  Open Access

  20   Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)

• Assembling the Proto-Yangtze Block in the late Paleoproterozoic: Constraints from a refined Magmatic-Metamorphic framework of the Cuoke Complex, SW China

  Yang, Z., Cawood, P. A., Zi, J. W., Liu, G. C., Chen, G. Y., Zhao, T. Y. & Li, J., Dec 2023, In: Precambrian Research. 399, 14 p., 107244.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  8   Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)

• Combined Nd isotope systematics and geophysical data constrain the crustal evolution of the disrupted Alto Moxotó Terrane, Borborema Province, Brazil

  de Lira Santos, L. C. M., de Oliveira, R. G., de Medeiros, W. E., Lages, G. D. A., Dantas, E. L., Cawood, P. A., Santos, G. L., de Araújo Neto, J. F., Lima, H. M. & da Paixão, M. S., 5 Feb 2023, In: Tectonophysics. 848, 15 p., 229716.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  15   Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)

• Contrasting topography of Rodinia and Gondwana recorded by continental-arc basalts

  Lu, G. M., Cawood, P. A., Spencer, C. J., Bekker, A., Xu, Y. G., Yao, Z. & Wang, W., Apr 2023, In: Lithos. 442-443, 7 p., 107094.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › Research › peer-review

  2   Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)

• Cretaceous long-distance lithospheric extension and surface response in South China

  Li, J., Dong, S., Cawood, P. A., Thybo, H., Clift, P. D., Johnston, S. T., Zhao, G. & Zhang, Y., Aug 2023, In: Earth-Science Reviews. 243, 38 p., 104496.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › Research › peer-review

  58   Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)

• Crustal architecture of Neoproterozoic terrains of western Gondwana revealed by integrated geophysical and structural data on the eastern Borborema Province, NE Brazil

  Santos, G. L., de Lira Santos, L. C. M., Vidotti, R. M., Cawood, P. A., Viegas, G. & Queiroga, G., Jul 2023, In: Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 127, 17 p., 104375.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  4   Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)

• Enhanced Denudation of the Emeishan Large Igneous Province and Precipitation Forcing in the Late Permian

  Yang, J., Cawood, P. A., Yuan, X., Yuan, D., Zhou, Y., Liu, A., Liu, J. & Du, Y., Dec 2023, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 128, 12, 14 p., e2023JB027430.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  10   Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)