State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources

Structure, Biostratigraphy, and Numerical Modelling of the Nizampur Basin (Pakistan): Implications for Deformation in the Himalayan Fold‐Thrust Belt

ABSTRACT The Nizampur Basin in northern Pakistan preserves a structurally important segment of the Himalayan fold‐thrust belt between the Attock‐Cherat Range (ACR) and the Kalachitta Range. Its architecture records interaction among the Hissartang Fault, the Main Boundary Thrust...

Maturation of an early Paleozoic continental arc in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Petrogenesis of Silurian granitoids in northern West Junggar, NW China

Transformation of basaltic intra-oceanic arcs to mature continental arcs is responsible for considerable Phanerozoic juvenile crustal growth in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB), which is the largest accretionary orogenic belt in the world. Controversy has long surrounded th...

Elastically bendable chiral metal halide crystals

Metal halide single crystals exhibit superior optoelectronic properties, promising for applications in optics and energy. However, they are inherently brittle, which has posed a major challenge for use in flexible electronics. Here, we report the elastic bending in a family of ch...

Evidence from alkaline magmatism for fluorine- and bromine-enriched cratonic mantle roots

The base of cratonic lithospheric mantle (cratonic root) is a key volatile-rich reservoir (e.g., carbon and halogens), formed through long-term metasomatism by deep-derived incipient melts, whose reactivation has been proposed to drive climatic change over the course of Earth his...