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Redox Evolution and Earth's Crustal Mineral Record during Geologic Time

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MOORE et al. , 2022 ; Link The expanding network of mineral chemistry throughout earth history reveals global shifts in crustal chemistry during the Proterozoic (MOORE et al. , 2022) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-08650-x Also... dragon:  A New Tool For Exploring Redox Evolution Preserved in the Mineral Record (SPIELMAN and MOORE, 2020) https://eartharxiv.org/repository/object/93/download/184/

Thermal Hot Spring Geochemistry and the Collision Zone between the Eurasian and Indian Tectonic Plates

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Southern Tibetan Plateau , European Space Agency (ESA) ; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO , Link Stanford researchers use hot springs to map where continental plates collide beneath Tibet (Danielle Torrent TUCKER, Stanford University News ; March 14, 2022) https://news.stanford.edu/2022/03/14/hot-springs-reveal-continental-plates-collide-beneath-tibet/ Featured Research Article: Limited underthrusting of India below Tibet: 3He/4He analysis of thermal springs locates the mantle suture in continental collision (KLEMPERER et al. , 2022) https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2113877119 Indian Plate , Alataristarion ; CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link