M. Santosh

Research interests

Publications

• Central China Orogenic Belt and amalgamation of East Asian continents

  Gondwana Research · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2021.03.006

• Mesozoic tectono-magmatic response in the East Asian ocean-continent connection zone to subduction of the Paleo-Pacific Plate

  Earth-Science Reviews · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.03.003

• A holistic model for the origin of orogenic gold deposits and its implications for exploration

  Mineralium Deposita · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s00126-019-00877-5

• Tectonic architecture and multiple orogeny of the Qinling Orogenic Belt, Central China

  Gondwana Research · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2015.06.009

• Early Paleozoic and Early Mesozoic intraplate tectonic and magmatic events in the Cathaysia Block, South China

  Tectonics · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1002/2015tc003835

• The western Central Asian Orogenic Belt: A window to accretionary orogenesis and continental growth

  Gondwana Research · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2014.01.008

• Cenozoic tectono-magmatic and metallogenic processes in the Sanjiang region, southwestern China

  Earth-Science Reviews · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2014.05.015

• Recognition of ocean plate stratigraphy in accretionary orogens through Earth history: A record of 3.8billion years of sea floor spreading, subduction, and accretion

  Gondwana Research · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2013.01.004

• The supercontinent cycle: A retrospective essay

  Gondwana Research · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2012.12.026

• Metallogeny of the North China Craton: Link with secular changes in the evolving Earth

  Gondwana Research · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2013.02.007

• The dilemma of the Jiaodong gold deposits: Are they unique?

  Geoscience Frontiers · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsf.2013.11.001

• Accretionary complexes in the Asia-Pacific region: Tracing archives of ocean plate stratigraphy and tracking mantle plumes

  Gondwana Research · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2012.10.008

• The early Precambrian odyssey of the North China Craton: A synoptic overview

  Gondwana Research · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2011.02.005

• Assembling North China Craton within the Columbia supercontinent: The role of double-sided subduction

  Precambrian Research · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2010.02.003

• Anatomy of a Cambrian suture in Gondwana: Pacific-type orogeny in southern India?

  Gondwana Research · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2008.12.012

• Late Cretaceous charnockite with adakitic affinities from the Gangdese batholith, southeastern Tibet: Evidence for Neo-Tethyan mid-ocean ridge subduction?

  Gondwana Research · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2009.10.007

• Configuration of the Late Paleoproterozoic supercontinent Columbia: Insights from radiating mafic dyke swarms

  Gondwana Research · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2008.01.010

• The making and breaking of supercontinents: Some speculations based on superplumes, super downwelling and the role of tectosphere

  Gondwana Research · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2008.11.004

• Tectonics and surface effects of the supercontinent Columbia

  Gondwana Research · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2008.06.008

• The Grenvillian and Pan-African orogens: World's largest orogenies through geologic time, and their implications on the origin of superplume

  Gondwana Research · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2008.01.001

• Timing of Paleoproterozoic ultrahigh-temperature metamorphism in the North China Craton: Evidence from SHRIMP U–Pb zircon geochronology

  Precambrian Research · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2007.06.006

• The Paleoproterozoic North Hebei Orogen: North China craton's collisional suture with the Columbia supercontinent

  Gondwana Research · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2006.11.012

• Discovery of sapphirine-bearing Mg–Al granulites in the North China Craton: Implications for Paleoproterozoic ultrahigh temperature metamorphism

  Gondwana Research · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2006.10.009

• Supercontinents in Earth History

  Gondwana Research · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s1342-937x(05)70993-x

• Configuration of Columbia, a Mesoproterozoic Supercontinent

  Gondwana Research · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s1342-937x(05)70883-2

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