To address the question of the initiation and mechanisms involved in the process of
subduction zone formation, we explored most of the available evidence for the subduction …

Starkly contrasting tectonic reconstructions have been proposed for the Late Cretaceous to
mid Eocene (~ 85–45 Ma) evolution of the southwest Pacific, reflecting sparse and …

We present new, geological, metamorphic, geochemical and geochronological data on the
East Anatolian–Lesser Caucasus ophiolites. These data are used in combination with a …

Serpentine-bearing sediment, a rare sediment type that is formed and deposited in
divergent, convergent, transform, and collisional plate-tectonic settings, carries important …

Obduction emplaces regional-scale fragments of oceanic lithosphere (ophiolites) over
continental lithosphere margins of much lower density. For this reason, the mechanisms …

Abstract The Rif belt (Northern Morocco) forms the western edge of the Alpine-Himalayan
orogenic system, resulting from the progressive closure of the Tethys oceanic domain …

Convergence and subduction started in the Late Paleocene, to the east of New Caledonia in
the South Loyalty Basin/Loyalty Basin, leading to the formation of the Subduction–Obduction …

The northern Oman margin is a key area for understanding the emplacement of the Semail
Ophiolite and obduction processes in general. This study uses a grid of 2D‐multichannel …

Abstract The New Caledonia ophiolite (Peridotite Nappe) consists primarily of harzburgites,
locally overlain by mafic-ultramafic cumulates, and minor spinel and plagioclase lherzolites …

New seismic imaging from the Mussau Trench confirms that, under horizontal compression
on an oceanic plate boundary, it is within the young and weak oceanic plate that a trench …