The Tethyside orogen, a direct consequence of the separation of the Gondwanaland and the
accretion of Eurasia, is a huge composite orogenic system that was generated during …

Based on the marine magnetic anomalies identified in the Argo Abyssal Plain offshore
northwestern Australia, the conceptual continent of Argoland must have rifted off in the Late …

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 …

Large peridotite massifs are scattered along the 1500 km length of the Yarlung–Zangbo
Suture Zone (southern Tibet, China), the major suture between Asia and Greater India …

Various combinations of zircon, quartz, corundum, K-feldspar, plagioclase, apatite,
amphibole, rutile, titanite, almandine garnet, kyanite, andalusite, and coesite have been …

Mantle peridotites of ophiolites have traditionally been interpreted as fragments of residual
oceanic lithospheric mantle depleted by partial melting. However, recent petrological …

Ophiolites, which represent segments of oceanic lithosphere obducted onto the continental
crust, provide an important window into processes such as continental rifting, mantle …

Podiform chromitites have been interpreted as the result of melt–rock reaction and related
melt mixing in upper mantle sections of ophiolites. However, the discovery of ultrahigh …

Podiform chromitites enclosed in depleted harzburgites of the Luobusa massif (southeastern
Tibet) contain diamond and a highly reduced trace-mineral association. Exsolution of …

Abstract The Miaowan Complex in the Northern Yangtze Craton consists mainly of layered
fine-grained metabasites, pillow lavas, sheeted dikes, gabbros, sepentinized harzburgite …