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Expand your knowledge with our curated collection of resources, designed to provide deeper insights into the connections between full lithosphere mapping, geodynamics and mineral system science.

Introduction To GLAM Prime

Learn about the GLAM Prime Product, the world’s first 4 dimensional map of the full continental lithosphere, its geodynamic evolution and control on the location of major deposits of Critical Minerals in space and time.

The Architecture and Evolution of Continental Lithosphere

Integrated multi-disciplinary mapping of the Global Lithospheric Architecture Mapping Project (GLAM) aims to create the world’s first map of the architecture and tectonothermal and geodynamic history of the entire continental lithosphere.

Mineral Systems in Context: Dynamic Processes and a 4D Earth

Ore deposits are the product of Mineral systems that operate at the lithosphere-scale and are controlled by the global geodynamic system. This week’s talk with Graham Begg will focus on Ni-Cu-PGE, Cu-Mo, Cu-Au, and Au deposits.

Key Papers

Begg, G.C., Griffin, W.L., Natapov, L.M., O’Reilly, S.Y., Grand, S.P., O’Neill, C.J., Hronsky, J.M.A., Djomani, Y.P., Swain, C.J., Deen, T. and Bowden, P., 2009. The lithospheric architecture of Africa: Seismic tomography, mantle petrology, and tectonic evolution. Geosphere, 5(1), pp.23-50.

 

Griffin, W.L., O’Reilly, S.Y., Afonso, J.C. and Begg, G.C., 2009. The composition and evolution of lithospheric mantle: a re-evaluation and its tectonic implications. Journal of Petrology, 50(7), pp.1185-1204.

 

Griffin, W.L., Begg, G.C. and O’Reilly, S.Y., 2013. Continental-root control on the genesis of magmatic ore deposits. Nature Geoscience, 6(11), pp.905-910.

 

Begg, G.C., Hronsky, J.A., Arndt, N.T., Griffin, W.L., O’Reilly, S.Y. and Hayward, N., 2010. Lithospheric, cratonic, and geodynamic setting of Ni-Cu-PGE sulfide deposits. Economic geology, 105(6), pp.1057-1070.

 

Hronsky, J.M., Groves, D.I., Loucks, R.R. and Begg, G.C., 2012. A unified model for gold mineralisation in accretionary orogens and implications for regional-scale exploration targeting methods. Mineralium Deposita, 47, pp.339-358.

 

Griffin, W.L., Begg, G.C., Dunn, D., O’Reilly, S.Y., Natapov, L.M. and Karlstrom, K., 2011. Archean lithospheric mantle beneath Arkansas: Continental growth by microcontinent accretion. Bulletin, 123(9-10), pp.1763-1775.

 

Tassara, S., González-Jiménez, J.M., Reich, M., Schilling, M.E., Morata, D., Begg, G., Saunders, E., Griffin, W.L., O’Reilly, S.Y., Grégoire, M. and Barra, F., 2017. Plume-subduction interaction forms large auriferous provinces. Nature communications, 8(1), p.843.

 

Belousova, E.A., Kostitsyn, Y.A., Griffin, W.L., Begg, G.C., O’Reilly, S.Y. and Pearson, N.J., 2010. The growth of the continental crust: constraints from zircon Hf-isotope data. Lithos, 119(3-4), pp.457-466.

 

Begg, G.C., Hronsky, J.M., Griffin, W.L. and O’Reilly, S.Y., 2018. Global-to deposit-scale controls on orthomagmatic Ni-Cu (-PGE) and PGE reef ore formation. In Processes and ore deposits of ultramafic-mafic magmas through space and time (pp. 1-46). Elsevier.

 

Deen, T.J., Griffin, W.L., Begg, G., O’Reilly, S.Y., Natapov, L.M. and Hronsky, J., 2006. Thermal and compositional structure of the subcontinental lithospheric mantle: Derivation from shear wave seismic tomography. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 7(7).

 

Holland, M.E., Karlstrom, K.E., Gehrels, G., Shufeldt, O.P., Begg, G., Griffin, W. and Belousova, E., 2018. The Paleoproterozoic Vishnu basin in southwestern Laurentia: Implications for supercontinent reconstructions, crustal growth, and the origin of the Mojave crustal province. Precambrian Research, 308, pp.1-17.

 

Tilhac, R., Begg, G.C., O’Reilly, S.Y. and Griffin, W.L., 2022. A global review of Hf-Nd isotopes: New perspectives on the chicken-and-egg problem of ancient mantle signatures. Chemical Geology, 609, p.121039.

 

Afonso, J.C., Ben-Mansour, W., O’Reilly, S.Y., Griffin, W.L., Salajegheh, F., Foley, S., Begg, G., Selway, K., Macdonald, A., Januszczak, N. and Fomin, I., 2022. Thermochemical structure and evolution of cratonic lithosphere in central and southern Africa. Nature Geoscience, 15(5), pp.405-410.

 

Holland, M.E., Karlstrom, K.E., Doe, M.F., Gehrels, G.E., Pecha, M., Shufeldt, O.P., Begg, G., Griffin, W.L. and Belousova, E., 2015. An imbricate midcrustal suture zone: the Mojave-Yavapai province boundary in Grand Canyon, Arizona. Bulletin, 127(9-10), pp.1391-1410.

 

Andersson, U.B., Begg, G.C., Griffin, W.L. and Hodahl, K. 2011. Ancient and juvenile components in the continental crust and mantle: Hf isotopes in zircon from Svecofennian magmatic rocks and rapakivi granites in Sweden. Lithosphere, 3, no. 6, 409-419.

 

O’Reilly, S.Y., Zhang, M., Griffin, W.L., Begg, G. and Hronsky, J.  2009.  Ultradeep continental roots and their oceanic remnants: a solution to the geochemical “mantle reservoir” problem? Lithos 112, Supp. 2, 1043-1054. 

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