Geochemical fingerprinting of continental and oceanic basalts: A machine learning approach

LS Doucet, MG Tetley, ZX Li, Y Liu… - Earth-Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Basalts are ubiquitous, mantle-derived mafic rocks found within all tectonic settings.
Studying the chemical composition of basalts has proven to be an effective way to …

The Scotia Arc: genesis, evolution, global significance

IWD Dalziel, LA Lawver, IO Norton… - Annual Review of …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
The Scotia arc is the eastward-closing loop of mountains and locally emergent submarine
ridges extending from the southernmost Andes through the active South Sandwich volcanic …

[PDF][PDF] Origin of back‐arc basin magmas: Trace element and isotope perspectives

JA Pearce, RJ Stern - Back‐arc spreading systems: Geological …, 2006 - researchgate.net
The compositions of back-arc basin basalts (BABB) can usefully be viewed as products of
four factors:(1) the composition of inflowing mantle and its preconditioning during flow to the …

The Troodos ophiolitic complex probably formed in a subduction initiation, slab edge setting

JA Pearce, PT Robinson - Gondwana Research, 2010 - Elsevier
Miyashiro (1973) famously initiated a debate on the tectonic setting of ophiolite complexes
by proposing that 'the Troodos ophiolitic complex was probably formed in an island arc'. This …

Middle to late Jurassic felsic and mafic magmatism in southern Hunan province, southeast China: Implications for a continental arc to rifting

YH Jiang, SY Jiang, BZ Dai, SY Liao, KD Zhao, HF Ling - Lithos, 2009 - Elsevier
Extensive middle to late Jurassic felsic and mafic magmatism occurred in the southern
Hunan province, southeast China. SHRIMP zircon U–Pb dating, mineral chemical, element …

Geochemical and Sr–Nd–Hf isotopic constraints on the origin of Late Triassic granitoids from the Qinling orogen, central China: implications for a continental arc to …

YH Jiang, GD **, SY Liao, Q Zhou, P Zhao - Lithos, 2010 - Elsevier
The Qinling–Dabie–Sulu orogen marks the junction between the North and South China
Blocks. However, the exact timing of the final coalescence of the North and South China …

Subduction-triggered magmatic pulses: A new class of plumes?

C Faccenna, TW Becker, S Lallemand… - Earth and Planetary …, 2010 - Elsevier
A variety of atypical plume-like structures and focused upwellings that are not rooted in the
lower mantle have recently been discussed, and seismological imaging has shown …

Repeated slab advance–retreat of the Palaeo-Pacific plate underneath SE China

YH Jiang, GC Wang, Z Liu, CY Ni, L Qing… - International Geology …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Southeast China, an important part of the circum–Pacific magmatic–metallogenetic belt, was
characterized by late Mesozoic extensive magmatism and related metallogenesis. It is now …

A new driving mechanism for backarc extension and backarc shortening through slab sinking induced toroidal and poloidal mantle flow: Results from dynamic …

WP Schellart, L Moresi - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
We present numerical subduction models to investigate overriding plate deformation at
subduction zones. All models show forearc shortening, resulting predominantly from shear …

Geodynamic evolution of Upper Cretaceous Zagros ophiolites: formation of oceanic lithosphere above a nascent subduction zone

HS Moghadam, RJ Stern - Geological Magazine, 2011 - cambridge.org
The Zagros fold-and-thrust belt of SW Iran is a young continental convergence zone,
extending NW–SE from eastern Turkey through northern Iraq and the length of Iran to the …