Ophiolites, and discussions on their origin and significance in Earth's history, have been
instrumental in the formulation, testing, and establishment of hypotheses and theories in …

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 …

This paper presents a brief synthesis of the current state of knowledge on the formation and
break-up of the early-Neoproterozoic supercontinent Rodinia, and the subsequent assembly …

The Solonker suture records the termination of the central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB).
However, tectonic development of the Solonker suture is poorly understood. We report new …

IGNEOUS ROCKS AND PROCESSES A practical introduction to igneous petrology for
students and practitioners The newly revised Second Edition of Igneous Rocks and …

Porphyry deposits arguably represent the most economically important class of nonferrous
metallic mineral resources. These magmatic-hydrothermal deposits are characterized by …

The sinking of lithosphere at subduction zones couples Earth's exterior with its interior,
spawns continental crust and powers a tectonic regime that is unique to our planet. In spite …

Subduction zones are tectonic expressions of convergent plate margins, where crustal rocks
descend into and interact with the overlying mantle wedge. They are the geodynamic system …

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

To this day, there is a great amount of controversy about where, when and how the so-called
supercontinents--Pangea, Godwana, Rodinia, and Columbia--were made and broken …