[HTML][HTML] Orogenic architecture of the Mediterranean region and kinematic reconstruction of its tectonic evolution since the Triassic

DJJ Van Hinsbergen, TH Torsvik, SM Schmid… - Gondwana …, 2020 - Elsevier
The basins and orogens of the Mediterranean region ultimately result from the opening of
oceans during the early break-up of Pangea since the Triassic, and their subsequent …

Geochemical characterization of ophiolites in the Alpine-Himalayan Orogenic Belt: Magmatically and tectonically diverse evolution of the Mesozoic Neotethyan …

H Furnes, Y Dilek, G Zhao, I Safonova, M Santosh - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Ophiolites are important archives of oceanic crust development and preservation in the rock
record, and the Alpine-Himalayan Orogenic Belt (AHOB) is one of the most comprehensive …

[HTML][HTML] New constraints for the western Paleotethys paleogeography-paleotectonics derived from detrital signatures: Malaguide Carboniferous Culm Cycle (Betic …

S Criniti, M Martín-Martín, A Martín-Algarra - Sedimentary Geology, 2023 - Elsevier
Carboniferous sandstone within the Paleo-Mesomediterranean Domain (Malaguide
Subdomain), in southern Spain, represents a key detrital mode within the sedimentary …

Origin and consequences of western Mediterranean subduction, rollback, and slab segmentation

DJJ van Hinsbergen, RLM Vissers, W Spakman - Tectonics, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The western Mediterranean recorded subduction rollback, slab segmentation and
separation. Here we address the questions of what caused Oligocene rollback initiation, and …

Tethys–Atlantic interaction along the Iberia–Africa plate boundary: The Betic–Rif orogenic system

J Vergés, M Fernàndez - Tectonophysics, 2012 - Elsevier
Initial SE-dip** slow subduction of the Ligurian–Tethys lithosphere beneath Africa from
Late Cretaceous to middle Oligocene twisting to a later faster E-dip** subduction of the …

The role of serpentinites in cycling of carbon and sulfur: Seafloor serpentinization and subduction metamorphism

JC Alt, EM Schwarzenbach, GL Früh-Green… - Lithos, 2013 - Elsevier
We summarize the uptake of carbon and sulfur during serpentinization of seafloor
peridotites, and discuss the fate of these volatiles during subduction of serpentinite. We use …

[HTML][HTML] Four billion years of ophiolites reveal secular trends in oceanic crust formation

H Furnes, M De Wit, Y Dilek - Geoscience Frontiers, 2014 - Elsevier
We combine a geological, geochemical and tectonic dataset from 118 ophiolite complexes
of the major global Phanerozoic orogenic belts with similar datasets of ophiolites from 111 …

The Tell-Rif orogenic system (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia) and the structural heritage of the southern Tethys margin

R Leprêtre, D Frizon de Lamotte… - BSGF-Earth …, 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Tell-Rif (Tell in Algeria and Tunisia; Rif in Morocco) is the orogenic system fringing to
the south the West Mediterranean basins. This system comprises three major tectonic …

Evolution of the Alpine orogenic belts in the Western Mediterranean region as resolved by the kinematics of the Europe-Africa diffuse plate boundary

P Angrand, F Mouthereau - BSGF-Earth Sciences …, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The West European collisional Alpine belts are the result of the inversion, initiated
in the middle Cretaceous, of the complex western Neotethys and the Atlantic continental rift …

Recycling of water, carbon, and sulfur during subduction of serpentinites: A stable isotope study of Cerro del Almirez, Spain

JC Alt, CJ Garrido, WC Shanks III, A Turchyn… - Earth and Planetary …, 2012 - Elsevier
We use the concentrations and isotope compositions of water, carbon, and sulfur in
serpentinites and their dehydration products to trace the cycling of volatiles during …