Abstract The Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB, also known as the Altaid Tectonic
Collage), one of the largest and long-lived accretionary orogens in the world, developed …

In this paper, a new discrimination diagram using absolute measures of Th and Nb is
applied to post-Archean ophiolites to best discriminate a large number of different ophiolitic …

Two geochemical proxies are particularly important for the identification and classification of
oceanic basalts: the Th–Nb proxy for crustal input and hence for demonstrating an oceanic …

We present the first global review on the Smsingle bondNd and Lusingle bondHf isotope
systematics of the mantle; it includes all published data on peridotites and pyroxenites from …

An assemblage of MORB analyses (n= 792 samples), including a suite of new, high-
precision LA-ICP-MS measurements (n= 79), has been critically compiled in order to provide …

The Indian-type mantle (ie, above the north hemisphere reference line on the plot of 208
Pb/204 Pb vs. 206 Pb/204 Pb) has been considered as a “Southern Hemisphere” …

The plate tectonic cycle produces chemically distinct mid-ocean ridge basalts and arc
volcanics, with the latter enriched in elements such as Ba, Rb, Th, Sr and Pb and depleted in …

Subduction initiation is one of the least understood aspects of plate tectonics. In an effort to
obtain the first in situ magmatic record of subduction initiation, the International Ocean …

The concentration of carbon in primary mid‐ocean ridge basalts (MORBs), and the
associated fluxes of CO2 outgassed at ocean ridges, is examined through new data …

The customary practice for displaying REE abundances is to normalize them to chondritic
abundances and then to plot these normalized abundances in order of atomic number, Z …