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 …

Neotethyan suprasubduction zone ophiolites represent anomalous oceanic crust developed
in older host basins during trench rollback cycles and later entrapped in orogenic belts as a …

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 …

Articulating a comprehensive plate-tectonic theory requires understanding how new
subduction zones form (subduction initiation). Because subduction initiation is a …

We establish the 'subduction initiation rule'(SIR) which predicts that most ophiolites form
during subduction initiation (SI) and that the diagnostic magmatic chemostratigraphic …

Suprasubduction zone (SSZ) ophiolites in orogenic belts represent oceanic crust generation
in subduction rollback cycles during the closing stages of basins prior to terminal continental …

The Middle Jurassic Mirdita Ophiolite in northern Albania is part of an ophiolite belt
occurring between the Apulian and Pelagonian subcontinents in the Balkan Peninsula. The …

Diamonds and a wide range of unusual minerals were originally discovered from the
chromitite and peridotite of the Luobusa ophiolite along the Yarlong–Zangbu suture zone in …

Initiation of new subduction zones is an integral part of Earth's plate tectonics regime. It is
generally accepted that the negative buoyancy of sufficiently old oceanic lithosphere …

Subduction of oceanic lithosphere is the primary driver of plate tectonics on Earth. However,
one of the least understood aspects of plate tectonics is how subduction zones initiate, due …