Earth’s middle age

The oxygenation of the atmosphere and oceans

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Orogenic gold and geologic time: a global synthesis

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Thermal history of the Earth and its petrological expression

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THE EARLY HISTORY OF ATMOSPHERIC OXYGEN: Homage to Robert M. Garrels

Canfield, D. E. (2005) · Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences · doi:10.1146/annurev.earth.33.092203.122711 · Cited by 1,032 · see citing works

Iron formation: the sedimentary product of a complex interplay among mantle, tectonic, oceanic, and biospheric processes

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The growth of the continental crust: Constraints from zircon Hf-isotope data

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The continental record and the generation of continental crust

Cawood, P. A., Hawkesworth, C., & Dhuime, B. (2013) · Geological Society of America Bulletin · doi:10.1130/b30722.1 · Cited by 642 · see citing works

Metamorphic Conditions in Orogenic Belts: A Record of Secular Change

Brown, M. (2007) · International Geology Review · doi:10.2747/0020-6814.49.3.193 · Cited by 626 · see citing works

Subduction styles in the Precambrian: Insight from numerical experiments

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Passive margins through earth history

Bradley, D. C. (2008) · Earth-Science Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2008.08.001 · Cited by 405 · see citing works

Secular trends in the geologic record and the supercontinent cycle

Bradley, D. C. (2011) · Earth-Science Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2011.05.003 · Cited by 369 · see citing works

Contrasting styles of Phanerozoic and Precambrian continental collision

Sizova, E., Gerya, T., & Brown, M. (2013) · Gondwana Research · doi:10.1016/j.gr.2012.12.011 · Cited by 316 · see citing works

A unified model for gold mineralisation in accretionary orogens and implications for regional-scale exploration targeting methods

Hronsky, J. M. A., Groves, D. I., Loucks, R. R., & Begg, G. (2012) · Mineralium Deposita · doi:10.1007/s00126-012-0402-y · Cited by 310 · see citing works

Reconstructing pre-Pangean supercontinents

Evans, D. A. D. (2013) · Geological Society of America Bulletin · doi:10.1130/b30950.1 · Cited by 302 · see citing works

Precambrian superplumes and supercontinents: a record in black shales, carbon isotopes, and paleoclimates?

Condie, K. C. (2001) · Precambrian Research · doi:10.1016/s0301-9268(00)00097-8 · Cited by 281 · see citing works

Quantifying the Timing and Rate of Crustal Evolution: Global Compilation of Radiometrically Dated Detrital Zircon Grains

Voice, P. J., Kowalewski, M., & Eriksson, K. A. (2011) · The Journal of Geology · doi:10.1086/658295 · Cited by 281 · see citing works

The Chemistry of Manganese Ores through Time: A Signal of Increasing Diversity of Earth-Surface Environments

Maynard, J. B. (2010) · Economic Geology · doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.105.3.535 · Cited by 275 · see citing works

Formation of Sedimentary Rock-Hosted Stratiform Copper Deposits through Earth History

Hitzman, M. W., Selley, D., & Bull, S. W. (2010) · Economic Geology · doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.105.3.627 · Cited by 273 · see citing works

Phanerozoic Atmospheric Oxygen

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A normalised seawater strontium isotope curve: possible implications for Neoproterozoic-Cambrian weathering rates and the further oxygenation of the Earth

Shields, G. (2007) · Eearth · doi:10.5194/ee-2-35-2007 · Cited by 213 · see citing works

Connections between Sulfur Cycle Evolution, Sulfur Isotopes, Sediments, and Base Metal Sulfide Deposits

Farquhar, J., Wu, N., Canfield, D. E., & Oduro, H. (2010) · Economic Geology · doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.105.3.509 · Cited by 212 · see citing works

Global Biogeochemical Changes at Both Ends of the Proterozoic: Insights from Phosphorites

Papineau, D. (2010) · Astrobiology · doi:10.1089/ast.2009.0360 · Cited by 205 · see citing works

The Geology and Metallogeny of Volcanic-Hosted Massive Sulfide Deposits: Variations through Geologic Time and with Tectonic Setting

Huston, D. L., Pehrsson, S. J., Eglington, B. M., & Zaw, K. (2010) · Economic Geology · doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.105.3.571 · Cited by 198 · see citing works

Magmatic-hydrothermal processes within an evolving Earth: Iron oxide-copper-gold and porphyry Cu Mo Au deposits

Richards, J. P., & Mumin, A. H. (2013) · Geology · doi:10.1130/g34275.1 · Cited by 160 · see citing works

THE TEMPORALITY OF ANORTHOSITES

Ashwal, L. D. (2010) · The Canadian Mineralogist · doi:10.3749/canmin.48.4.711 · Cited by 153 · see citing works

LATE- TO POST-TECTONIC SETTING OF SOME MAJOR PROTEROZOIC ANORTHOSITE - MANGERITE - CHARNOCKITE - GRANITE (AMCG) SUITES

McLelland, J. M., Selleck, B., Hamilton, M. A., & Bickford, M. E. (2010) · The Canadian Mineralogist · doi:10.3749/canmin.48.4.729 · Cited by 130 · see citing works

Time‐Series Analysis of Large Igneous Provinces: 3500 Ma to Present

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Not all supercontinents are created equal: Gondwana-Rodinia case study

Spencer, C. J., Hawkesworth, C. J., Cawood, P. A., & Dhuime, B. (2013) · Geology · doi:10.1130/g34520.1 · Cited by 103 · see citing works

Proterozoic ferroan feldspathic magmatism

Frost, C. D., & Frost, C. D. (2013) · Precambrian Research · doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2013.01.016 · Cited by 101 · see citing works

Plate tectonic gemstones

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Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide Deposits of the World - Database and Grade and Tonnage Models

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High 3He/4He ratios in the Manus backarc basin: Implications for mantle mixing and the origin of plumes in the western Pacific Ocean

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Paleoproterozoic Stark Formation, Athapuscow Basin, Northwest Canada: Record of Cratonic-Scale Salinity Crisis

Pope, M. C., & Grotzinger, J. P. (2003) · Journal of Sedimentary Research · doi:10.1306/091302730280 · Cited by 62 · see citing works

A one-billion-year gap in the Precambrian history of the southern Siberian Craton and the problem of the Transproterozoic supercontinent

Gladkochub, D. P., Donskaya, Т. V., Wingate, M. T. D., Mazukabzov, A. M., Pisarevsky, S., Sklyarov, E. V., & Stanevich, A. M. (2010) · American Journal of Science · doi:10.2475/09.2010.03 · Cited by 53 · see citing works

Heavy metal, sex and granites: Crustal differentiation and bioavailability in the mid-Proterozoic

Parnell, J., Hole, M. J., Boyce, A. J., Spinks, S., & Bowden, S. A. (2012) · Geology · doi:10.1130/g33116.1 · Cited by 27 · see citing works

Parental magmas of Grenville Province massif-type anorthosites, and conjectures about why massif anorthosites are restricted to the Proterozoic

Bédard, J. H. J. (2010) · Geological Society of America eBooks · doi:10.1130/2010.2472(06 · Cited by 26 · see citing works

Parental magmas of Grenville Province massif-type anorthosites, and conjectures about why massif anorthosites are restricted to the Proterozoic

Bédard, J. H. J. (2009) · Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh · doi:10.1017/s1755691009016016 · Cited by 15 · see citing works

Orogenic gold: Common or evolving fluid and metal sources through time

Goldfarb, R. J., & Groves, D. I. (2015) · Lithos · doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2015.07.011 · Cited by 1,073 · see citing works

Reconstructing South China in Phanerozoic and Precambrian supercontinents

Cawood, P. A., Zhao, G., Yao, J., Wang, W., Xu, Y., & Wang, Y. (2017) · Earth-Science Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.06.001 · Cited by 626 · see citing works

Secular change in metamorphism and the onset of global plate tectonics

Brown, M., & Johnson, T. E. (2017) · American Mineralogist · doi:10.2138/am-2018-6166 · Cited by 506 · see citing works

Geological archive of the onset of plate tectonics

Cawood, P. A., Hawkesworth, C., Pisarevsky, S., Dhuime, B., Capitanio, F., & Nebel, O. (2018) · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences · doi:10.1098/rsta.2017.0405 · Cited by 431 · see citing works

Secular Evolution of Continents and the Earth System

Cawood, P. A., Chowdhury, P., Mulder, J. A., Hawkesworth, C. J., Capitanio, F. A., Gunawardana, P. M., & Nebel, O. (2022) · Reviews of Geophysics · doi:10.1029/2022rg000789 · Cited by 282 · see citing works

Late Paleoproterozoic–Neoproterozoic multi-rifting events in the North China Craton and their geological significance: A study advance and review

Zhai, M., Hu, B., Zhao, T., Peng, P., & Meng, Q. (2015) · Tectonophysics · doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2015.01.019 · Cited by 260 · see citing works

Earth's Continental Lithosphere Through Time

Hawkesworth, C. J., Cawood, P. A., Dhuime, B., & Kemp, T. I. S. (2017) · Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences · doi:10.1146/annurev-earth-063016-020525 · Cited by 251 · see citing works

The evolution of plate tectonics

Stern, R. J. (2018) · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences · doi:10.1098/rsta.2017.0406 · Cited by 237 · see citing works

Rates of generation and growth of the continental crust

Hawkesworth, C. J., Cawood, P. A., & Dhuime, B. (2018) · Geoscience Frontiers · doi:10.1016/j.gsf.2018.02.004 · Cited by 228 · see citing works

Orogenic quiescence in Earth’s middle age

Tang, M., Chu, X., Hao, J., & Shen, B. (2021) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.abf1876 · Cited by 220 · see citing works

Oxygenation, Life, and the Planetary System during Earth's Middle History: An Overview

Lyons, T. W., Diamond, C. W., Planavsky, N. J., Reinhard, C. T., & Li, C. (2021) · Astrobiology · doi:10.1089/ast.2020.2418 · Cited by 211 · see citing works

Remobilization of metasomatized mantle lithosphere: a new model for the Jiaodong gold province, eastern China

Deng, J., Wang, Q., Santosh, M., Liu, X., Liang, Y., Yang, L., Zhao, R., & Yang, L. (2019) · Mineralium Deposita · doi:10.1007/s00126-019-00925-0 · Cited by 211 · see citing works

A dynamic 2000—540 Ma Earth history: From cratonic amalgamation to the age of supercontinent cycle

Li, Z., Liu, Y., & Ernst, R. E. (2023) · Earth-Science Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2023.104336 · Cited by 211 · see citing works

The Evolution of the Continental Crust and the Onset of Plate Tectonics

Hawkesworth, C. J., Cawood, P. A., & Dhuime, B. (2020) · Frontiers in Earth Science · doi:10.3389/feart.2020.00326 · Cited by 205 · see citing works

Decimetre-scale multicellular eukaryotes from the 1.56-billion-year-old Gaoyuzhuang Formation in North China

Zhu, S., Zhu, M., Knoll, A. H., Yin, Z., Zhao, F., Sun, S., Qu, Y., Shi, M., & Liu, H. (2016) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/ncomms11500 · Cited by 199 · see citing works

The 1.33–1.30 Ga Yanliao large igneous province in the North China Craton: Implications for reconstruction of the Nuna (Columbia) supercontinent, and specifically with the North Australian Craton

Zhang, S., Zhao, Y. J., Li, X., Ernst, R. E., & Yang, Z. (2017) · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2017.02.034 · Cited by 196 · see citing works

Surface erosion events controlled the evolution of plate tectonics on Earth

Sobolev, S. V., & Brown, M. (2019) · Nature · doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1258-4 · Cited by 185 · see citing works

Laurentia-Baltica-Amazonia relations during Rodinia assembly

Cawood, P. A., & Pisarevsky, S. (2017) · Precambrian Research · doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2017.01.031 · Cited by 177 · see citing works

Neoproterozoic glacial origin of the Great Unconformity

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The Ecological Physiology of Earth's Second Oxygen Revolution

Sperling, E. A., Knoll, A. H., & Girguis, P. R. (2015) · Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics · doi:10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-110512-135808 · Cited by 165 · see citing works

Metamorphism and the evolution of subduction on Earth

Brown, M., & Johnson, T. E. (2019) · American Mineralogist · doi:10.2138/am-2019-6956 · Cited by 164 · see citing works

Orogenic gold and the mineral systems approach: Resolving fact, fiction and fantasy

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Cycles of nutrient trace elements in the Phanerozoic ocean

Large, R. R., Halpin, J. A., Lounejeva, E., Danyushevsky, L. V., Maslennikov, V. V., Gregory, D., Sack, P. J., Haines, P. W., Long, J. A., Makoundi, C., et al. (2015) · Gondwana Research · doi:10.1016/j.gr.2015.06.004 · Cited by 145 · see citing works

Australia and Nuna

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S-type granites: Their origin and distribution through time as determined from detrital zircons

Zhu, Z., Campbell, I. H., Allen, C. M., & Burnham, A. D. (2020) · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116140 · Cited by 133 · see citing works

Progress towards an improved Precambrian seawater 87Sr/86Sr curve

Chen, X., Zhou, Y., & Shields, G. (2021) · Earth-Science Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103869 · Cited by 135 · see citing works

Basin redox and primary productivity within the Mesoproterozoic Roper Seaway

Cox, G. M., Jarrett, A. J. M., Edwards, D. S., Crockford, P. W., Halverson, G. P., Collins, A. S., Poirier, A., & Li, Z. (2016) · Chemical Geology · doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2016.06.025 · Cited by 123 · see citing works

Global Meso-Neoproterozoic plate reconstruction and formation mechanism for Precambrian basins: Constraints from three cratons in China

Li, S., Li, X., Wang, G., Liu, Y., Wang, Z., Wang, T., Cao, X., Guo, X., Somerville, I. D., Li, Y., et al. (2019) · Earth-Science Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.102946 · Cited by 117 · see citing works

Continental crustal volume, thickness and area, and their geodynamic implications

Cawood, P. A., & Hawkesworth, C. J. (2018) · Gondwana Research · doi:10.1016/j.gr.2018.11.001 · Cited by 119 · see citing works

Continental growth seen through the sedimentary record

Dhuime, B., Hawkesworth, C. J., Delavault, H., & Cawood, P. A. (2017) · Sedimentary Geology · doi:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2017.06.001 · Cited by 115 · see citing works

Time's arrow, time's cycle: Granulite metamorphism and geodynamics

Brown, M., & Johnson, T. E. (2019) · Mineralogical Magazine · doi:10.1180/mgm.2019.19 · Cited by 103 · see citing works

The Mesoproterozoic Single-Lid Tectonic Episode: Prelude to Modern Plate Tectonics

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Carbonates before skeletons: A database approach

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Earth Matters: A tempo to our planet’s evolution

Cawood, P. A. (2020) · Geology · doi:10.1130/focus052020.1 · Cited by 88 · see citing works

Evolution of geodynamics since the Archean: Significant change at the dawn of the Phanerozoic

Brown, M., Kirkland, C. L., & Johnson, T. E. (2020) · Geology · doi:10.1130/g47417.1 · Cited by 86 · see citing works

Paleoproterozoic metamorphism of high-grade granulite facies rocks in the North China Craton: Study advances, questions and new issues

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Major crustal boundaries of Australia, and their significance in mineral systems targeting

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Origin of early continents and beginning of plate tectonics

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Mariana-type ophiolites constrain the establishment of modern plate tectonic regime during Gondwana assembly

Yao, J., Cawood, P. A., Zhao, G., Han, Y., Xia, X., Liu, Q., & Wang, P. (2021) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/s41467-021-24422-z · Cited by 77 · see citing works

Kinematic constraints on the Rodinia to Gondwana transition

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Reconstructing Earth’s atmospheric oxygenation history using machine learning

Chen, G.-X., Cheng, Q., Lyons, T., Shen, J., Agterberg, F., Huang, N., & Zhao, M. (2022) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/s41467-022-33388-5 · Cited by 64 · see citing works

Where and when did the Paleo-Asian ocean form?

Wan, B., Li, S., Xiao, W., & Windley, B. F. (2018) · Precambrian Research · doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2018.09.003 · Cited by 72 · see citing works

Continuous plate subduction marked by the rise of alkali magmatism 2.1 billion years ago

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Nature of three Proterozoic (1680 Ma, 1230 Ma and 775 Ma) mafic dyke swarms in North China: Implications for tectonic evolution and paleogeographic reconstruction

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Role of upper-most crustal composition in the evolution of the Precambrian ocean–atmosphere system

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Meso-Neoproterozoic Rodinia supercycle

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Implication of Mesoproterozoic (∼1.4 Ga) magmatism within microcontinents along the southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt

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Continental crustal evolution and synchronous metallogeny through time in the North China Craton

Zhai, M., Zhu, X., Zhou, Y., Zhao, L., & Zhou, L. (2019) · Journal of Asian Earth Sciences · doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2019.104169 · Cited by 57 · see citing works

Tectonic significance of Australian rare earth element deposits

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The inception of plate tectonics: a record of failure

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Eastern Ghats Belt, Grenvillian-Age Tectonics and the Evolution of the Greater Indian Landmass: A Critical Perspective

Bose, S., & Dasgupta, S. (2018) · Journal of the Indian Institute of Science · doi:10.1007/s41745-018-0068-2 · Cited by 53 · see citing works

Reconstructing South China in the Mesoproterozoic and its role in the Nuna and Rodinia supercontinents

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The temporal distribution of Earth's supermountains and their potential link to the rise of atmospheric oxygen and biological evolution

Zhu, Z., Campbell, I. H., Allen, C. M., Brocks, J. J., & Chen, B. (2022) · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117391 · Cited by 52 · see citing works

Age and geochemistry of the early Mesoproterozoic A-type granites in the southern margin of the North China Craton: Constraints on their petrogenesis and tectonic implications

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Neoproterozoic hybrid forearc – MOR ophiolite belts in the northern Arabian-Nubian Shield: no evidence for back-arc tectonic setting

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A template for an improved rock-based subdivision of the pre-Cryogenian timescale

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Geochemical and mineralogical evidence that Rodinian assembly was unique

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Singularity analysis of global zircon U-Pb age series and implication of continental crust evolution

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Biogeodynamics: bridging the gap between surface and deep Earth processes

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Supercontinent transition as a trigger for ~1.1 Gyr diamondiferous kimberlites and related magmatism in India

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Revisiting the Mesoproterozoic

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Reviews of the Mesoproterozoic to Neoproterozoic sedimentary sequences and new constraints on the tectono-sedimentary evolution of the southern margin of the North China Craton

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