CAUSAL GEOLOGY

By X. CAIND

CONTENTS THE EVOLVING CONTINENTS: UNDERSTANDING PROCESSES OF CONTINENTAL GROWTH – INTRODUCTION THE ANATOMY AND ONTOGENY OF MODERN INTRA-OCEANIC ARC SYSTEMS TRANSITIONS AMONG MARIANA-, JAPAN-, CORDILLERA- AND ALASKA-TYPE ARC SYSTEMS AND THEIR ?NAL JUXTAPOSITIONS LEADING TO ACCRETIONARY AND COLLISIONAL OROGENESIS OCEAN PLATE STRATIGRAPHY AND ITS IMBRICATION IN AN ACCRETIONARY OROGEN: THE MONA COMPLEX, ANGLESEY–LLEYN, WALES, UK OROGENS IN THE EVOLVING EARTH: FROM SURFACE CONTINENTS TO ‘LOST CONTINENTS’ AT THE CORE– MANTLE BOUNDARY THE KHANKA BLOCK, NE CHINA, AND ITS SIGNI?CANCE FOR THE EVOLUTION OF THE CENTRAL ASIAN OROGENIC BELT AND CONTINENTAL ACCRETION PETROLOGY, CHEMISTRY AND PHASE RELATIONS OF BOROSILICATE PHASES IN PHLOGOPITE DIOPSIDITES AND GRANITIC PEGMATITES FROM THE TRANOMARO BELT, SE MADAGASCAR; BORON-?UID EVOLUTION RECONSTRUCTION AND INTERPRETATION OF GIANT MA?C DYKE SWARMS: A CASE STUDY OF 1 78 GA MAGMATISM IN THE NORTH CHINA CRATON THE ROLE OF GEOCHRONOLOGY IN UNDERSTANDING CONTINENTAL EVOLUTION CHROMITITES FROM THE FISKENÆSSET ANORTHOSITIC COMPLEX, WEST GREENLAND: CLUES TO LATE ARCHAEAN MANTLE PROCESSES A BURIED PALAEOPROTEROZOIC SPREADING RIDGE IN THE NORTHERN NAGSSUGTOQIDIAN OROGEN, WEST GREENLAND PRECAMBRIAN KEY TECTONIC EVENTS AND EVOLUTION OF THE NORTH CHINA CRATON MESOARCHAEAN TO PALAEOPROTEROZOIC GROWTH OF THE NORTHERN SEGMENT OF THE ITABUNA–SALVADOR– CURAC¸A´ OROGEN, SA˜O FRANCISCO CRATON, BRAZIL A REVIEW OF THE GEOLOGY AND TECTONICS OF THE KOHISTAN ISLAND ARC, NORTH PAKISTAN ROLES OF STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS DURING CONTINENTAL DEFORMATION: EXAMPLES FROM THE ACTIVE ARABIA– EURASIA COLLISION WAS LATE CRETACEOUS–PALEOCENE OBDUCTION OF OPHIOLITE COMPLEXES THE PRIMARY CAUSE OF CRUSTAL THICKENING AND REGIONAL METAMORPHISM IN THE PAKISTAN HIMALAYA? TECTONIC SETTING AND STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION OF THE LATE CENOZOIC GOBI ALTAI OROGEN LANDSCAPE DEVELOPMENT OF THE HIMALAYAN–TIBETAN OROGEN: A REVIEW