A model for continental crust genesis by arc accretion: rare earth element evidence from the Irish Caledonides

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• continental crust 77%
• accretion 74%
• rare earth element 67%
• arc-continent collision 32%
• collision 19%
• fractionation 19%
• continent 18%
• crust 17%
• Dalradian 16%
• crystal 15%
• Laurentia 13%
• passive margin 13%
• cumulate 12%
• diorite 12%
• sedimentary sequence 12%
• gabbro 12%
• rhyolite 12%
• loss 12%
• orogeny 11%
• magmatism 10%
• assimilation 10%
• metamorphism 10%
• material 9%
• mantle 8%

Physics & Astronomy

• crusts 100%
• continents 71%
• rare earth elements 68%
• arcs 66%
• collisions 29%
• fractionation 27%
• diorite 22%
• rhyolite 20%
• gabbro 20%
• assimilation 16%
• Earth mantle 13%
• paradoxes 13%
• margins 12%
• crystals 11%
• chemistry 9%

Chemical Compounds

• Lanthanoid Atom 59%
• Collision 45%
• Fractionation 20%
• Chemistry 6%