Almeida, C.N., Guimarães, I.P. and Da Silva Filho, A.F., 2002. Petrogênese de rochas plutônicas félsicas e máficas na Província Borborema, NE do Brasil: o complexo cálcio-alcalino de alto-K de Campina Grande. Revista Brasileira de Geociências, 32: 205-216.
Annen, C. and Sparks, R.S.L., 2002. Effects of repetitive emplacement of basaltic intrusions on thermal evolution and melt generation in the crust. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 203: 937-955.
Archanjo, C.J., Trindade, R.I.F., Bouchez, J.L. and Ernesto, M., 2002. Granite fabrics and regional-scale strain partitioning in the Seridó Belt (Borborema Province, NE Brazil). Tectonics, 21, doi: 10.1029/2000TC001269.
Brito Neves, B.B., Santos, E.J. and Van Schmuss, W.R., 2000. Tectonic history of the Borborema Province, in Cordani, U.G., Milani, E.J., Thomaz Filho, A. and Campos, D.A. (Editors), Tectonic evolution of South America: 31st International Geological Congress, Rio de Janeiro, pp. 151-182.
Brito Neves, B.B., Passarelli, C.R., Basei, M.A.S. and Santos, E.J., 2003. Idades U-Pb em zircão de alguns granitos clássicos da Província Borborema. Geologia USP, Série Científica, 3: 25-38.
Campos, T.F.C., Neiva, A.M.R. and Nardi, L.V.S., 2002. Geochemistry of the Espinharas hybrid complex, northeastern Brazil, Lithos, 64: 131-153.
Chung, S.-L., Lo, C.-H., Lee, T.-Y., Zhang, Y., Xie, Y., Li, X., Wang, K.-L. and Wang, P.-L., 1998. Diachronous uplift of the Tibetan plateau starting 40 Myr ago, Nature, 394: 769-773.
Conceição, R.V. and Green, D.H., 2004. Derivation of potassic (shoshonitic) magmas by decompression melting of phlogopite+pargasite lherzolite. Lithos, 72: 209-229.
Dada, S.S., Briqueu, L., Harms, U., Lancelot, J.R. and Matheis, G., 1995. Charnockitic and monzonitic Pan-African series from north-central Nigeria: trace-element and Nd, Sr, Pb isotope constraints in their petrogenesis. Chemical Geology, 124: 233-252.
Evense, N.M., Hamilton, P.J. and O´Nions, R.K., 1978. Rare earth elements abundances in chondrite meteorites. Geochemica et Cosmochimica Acta., 42: 1199-1212.
Ferreira, V.P., Sial, A.N. and Jardim de Sá, E.F., 1998. Geochemical and isotopic signatures of Proterozoic granitoids in terranes of the Borborema structural province, northeastern Brazil. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 11: 439-455.
Green, T.H., 1994. Experimental studies of trace-element partitioning applicable to igneous petrogenesis-Sedona 16 yars later. Chemical Geology, 117: 1-36.
Griffin, W.L., O'Reilly, S.Y., Abe, N., Aulbach, S., Davies, R.M., Pearson, N.J., Doyle, B.J. and Kivi, K., 2003. The origin and evolution of Archean lithospheric mantle. Precambrian Research, 127: 19-41.
Guimarães, I.P., Da Silva Filho, A.F., Almeida, C.N., Araújo, J.M.M., Sales, A. and Melo, S.C., 1998. The Brasiliano granitoids from the Pajeú Paraíba belt and Teixeira High: Sm-Nd isotope geochemistry and U/Pb in zircon ages: Anais XL Congresso Brasileiro de Geologia, Belo Horizonte, Anais, p. 48.
Hirose, K. and Kawamoto, T., 1995. Hydrous partial melting of lherzolite at 1 GPa: The effect of H2O on the genesis of basaltic magmas. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 133: 463-473.
Hollanda, M.H.B.M., Pimentel, M.M. and Jardim de Sá, E.F., 2003. Paleoproterozoic subduction-related metasomatic signatures in the lithospheric mantle beneath NE Brazil: inferences from trace element and Sr-Nd-Pb isotopic compositions of Neoproterozoic high-K igneous rocks. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 15: 885-900.
Jardim de Sá, E.F., 1994. A Faixa Seridó (Província Borborema, NE do Brasil) e seu significado geodinâmico na cadeia Brasiliana/Pan-Africana. PhD thesis, Universidade de Brasília, Brazil.
Jung, S., Hoernes, S. and Mezger, K., 2002. Synorogenic melting of mafic lower crust: constraints from geochronology, petrology and Sr, Nd, Pb and O isotope geochemistry of quartz diorites (Damara orogen, Namibia). Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 143: 551-566.
Kay, R.W. and Kay, S.M., 1993. Delamination and delamination magmatism. Tectonophysics, 219: 177-189.
Küster, D. and Harms, U., 1998. Post-collisional potassic granitoids from the southern and northwestern parts of the Late Neoproterozoic East African Orogen: a review. Lithos, 45: 177-195.
Leterrier, J., Jardim de Sá, E.F., Bertrand, J.-M. and Pin, C., 1994. Ages U-Pb sur Zincon de granitoides brasilianos de la ceinture du Serido (Province Borborema, NE Brésil). Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences Paris, 318: 1505-1511.
Mariano, G. and Sial, A.N., 1990. Coexistence and mixing of magmas in the Late Precambrian Itaporanga batholith, state of Paraíba, northeastern Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Geociências, 20:101-110.
Mariano, G., Sial, A.N., Cruz, M.J.M. and Conceiçao, H., 1996. The potassic calc-alkalic Itaporanga Batholith, northeastern Brazil: mineral chemistry and oxygen-isotope data. International Geology Review, 38: 74-86.
Mariano, G., Neves, S.P., Da Silva Filho, A.F. and Guimarães, I.P., 2001. Diorites of the high-K calc-alkalic association: Geochemistry and Sm-Nd data and implications for the evolution of the Borborema Province, Northeast Brazil. International Geology Review, 43: 921-929.
McDonough, W.F., 1990. Constraints on the composition of the continental lithospheric mantle: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 101: 1-18.
McKenzie, D., and Bickle, 1988 The volume and composition of melt generated by extension of the lithsophere. Journal of Petrology, 29: 625-679.
Meyzen, C.M., Toplis, M.J., Humler, E., Ludden, J.N. and Mével, C., 2003. A discontinuity in mantle composition beneath the southwest Indian ridge. Nature, 421: 731-733.
Miller, C., Schuster, R., Klötzli, U., Frank, W. and Purtscheller, F., 1999. Post-collisional potassic and ultrapotassic magmatism in SW Tibet: geochemical and Sr-Nd-Pb-O isotopic constraints for mantle source characteristics and petrogenesis. Journal of Petrology, 40: 1399-1424.
Neves, S.P., 2003. Proterozoic history of the Borborema Province (NE Brazil): correlations with neighboring cratons and Pan-African belts, and implications for the evolution of Western Gondwana. Tectonics, 32, doi:10.1029/2001TC001352.
Neves, S.P. and Vauchez, A., 1995. Successive mixing and mingling of magmas in a plutonic complex of Northeast Brazil. Lithos, 34: 275-299.
Neves, S.P. and Mariano, G., 1997. High-K calc-alkalic plutons in NE Brazil: origin of the biotite diorite/quartz monzonite to granite association and implications for the evolution of the Borborema Province. International Geology Review, 39: 621-638.
Neves, S.P. and Mariano, G., 2004. Heat-producing elements-enriched continental mantle lithosphere and Proterozoic intracontinental deformation: insights from Brasiliano/Pan-African belts: Gondwana Research, 7: 427-436.
Neves, S.P., Vauchez, A. and Archanjo, C.J., 1996. Shear-zone controlled magma emplacement or magma-assisted nucleation of shear zones? Insights from Northeast Brazil. Tectonophysics, 262: 349-365.
Neves, S.P., Mariano, G., Guimarães, I.P., Da Silva Filho and A.F. and Melo, S.C., 2000, Intralithospheric differentiation and crustal growth: evidence from the Borborema Province, northeastern Brazil. Geology, 28: 519-522.
Neves, S.P., Melo, S.C., Moura, C.A.V., Mariano, G. and Silva, J.M.R., 2004. Zircon Pb-Pb geochronology of the Caruaru area, northeastern Brazil: temporal constraints on the Proterozoic evolution of Borborema Province. International Geology Review, 46: 52-63.
O'Reilly, S.Y. and Griffin, W.L., 2000. Apatite in the mantle: implications for metasomatic processes and high heat production in Phanerozoic mantle. Lithos, 53: 217-232.
Patiño Douce, A.E. and Beard, J.S., 1995. Dehydration-melting of biotite gneiss and quartz amphibolite from 3 to 15 kbar. Journal of Petrology, 36: 707-738.
Peccerillo, R. and Taylor, S.R., 1976. Geochemistry of Eocene cal-alkaline volcanic rocks from the Kastamonu area, northern Turkey. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 58: 63-81.
Petford, N., and Gallagher, K., 2001, Partial melting of mafic (amphibolitic) lower crust by periodic influx of basaltic magma. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 193: 483-499.
Platt, J.P. and England, P.C., 1994. Convective removal of lithosphere beneath mountain belts: Thermal and mechanical consequences. American Journal of Sciences, 294: 307-336.
Pollack, H.N., 1986. Cratonization and thermal evolution of the mantle. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 80: 175-182.
Rapp, R.P. and Watson, E.B., 1995. Dehydration melting of metabasalt at 8-32 kbar: Implications for continental growth and crust-mantle recycling. Journal of Petrology, 36: 891-931.
Rapp, R.P., Schimizu, N. Norman, M.D., 2003. Growth of early continental crust by partial melting of eclogite. Nature, 426: 605-609.
Rushmer, T., 1991. Partial melting of two amphibolites: contrasting experimental results under fluid-absent conditions. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 107: 41-59.
Schaefer, B.F., Turner, S.P., Rogers, N.W., Hawkesworth, C.J., Williams, H.M., Pearson, D.G. and Nowell, G.M., 2000. Re-Os isotope characteristics of post-orogenic lavas: implications for the nature of young lithospheric mantle and its contribution to basaltic magmas. Geology, 28: 563-566.
Turner, S., Arnaud, N., Liu, J., Rogers, N., Hawkesworth, G., Harris, N., Kelley, S., Van Calsteren, P. and Deng, M., 1996. Post-collision, shoshonitic volcanism on the Tibetan Plateau: implications for convective thinning of the lithosphere and the source of ocean island basalts. Journal of Petrology, 37: 45-71.
Turner, S., Sandiford, M. and Foden, J., 1992. Some geodynamic and compositional constraints on "postorogenic" magmatism. Geology, 20: 931-934.
van de Flierdt, T., Hoernes, S., Jung, S., Masberg, P., Hoffer, E., Schaltegger, U., and Friedrichsen, H., 2003, Lower crustal melting and the role of open-system processes in the genesis of syn-orogenic quartz diorite-granite-leucogranite associations: constraints from Sr-Nd-O isotopes from the Bandombaai Complex, Namibia. Lithos, 67: 205-226.
Van Schmus, W.R., Brito Neves, B.B., Hackspacher, P., and Babinski, M., 1995, U/Pb and Sm/Nd geochronologic studies of the eastern Borborema Province, northeastern Brazil: initial conclusions. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 8: 267-288.
Van Schmus, W.R., Brito Neves, B.B., Williams, I. S., Hackspacher, P., Fetter, A. H., Dantas, E. L. and Babinski, M., 2003. The Seridó Group of NE Brazil, a late Neoproterozoic pre- to syn-collisional basin in West Gondwana: insights from SHRIMP U-Pb detrital zircon ages and Sm-Nd crustal residence (TDM) ages. Precambrian Research, 127: 287-327.
Vauchez, A., Neves, S.P., Caby, R., Corsini, M., Egydio-Silva, M., Arthaud, M.H. and Amaro, V., 1995. The Borborema shear zone system, NE Brazil. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 8: 247-266.