Tectonic evolution, superimposed orogeny, and composite metallogenic system in China

J Deng, Q Wang, G Li - Gondwana Research, 2017 - Elsevier
Continental China is a mosaic of numerous tectonic blocks, which amalgamated from
Neoarchean to Cenozoic broadly coeval with the cycles of global supercontinents such as …

Compositions of chromite, associated minerals, and parental magmas of podiform chromite deposits: The role of slab contamination of asthenospheric melts in …

MF Zhou, PT Robinson, BX Su, JF Gao, JW Li… - Gondwana …, 2014 - Elsevier
Podiform chromitites in the mantle sections of ophiolites belong to either high-Cr
(metallurgical) or high-Al (refractory) varieties. Their highly variable compositions are …

The Indus–Yarlung Zangbo ophiolites from Nanga Parbat to Namche Barwa syntaxes, southern Tibet: First synthesis of petrology, geochemistry, and geochronology …

R Hébert, R Bezard, C Guilmette, J Dostal, CS Wang… - Gondwana …, 2012 - Elsevier
The purpose of this first synthesis is to summarize findings on the Yarlung Zangbo Suture
Zone (YZSZ) ophiolites and discuss still remaining problems. The YZSZ studied for almost …

Diamonds, native elements and metal alloys from chromitites of the Ray-Iz ophiolite of the Polar Urals

J Yang, F Meng, X Xu, PT Robinson, Y Dilek… - Gondwana …, 2015 - Elsevier
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Geological, geophysical and plate kinematic constraints for models of the India-Asia collision and the post-Triassic central Tethys oceans

AJ Parsons, K Hosseini, RM Palin, K Sigloch - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
In this study, we integrate bedrock datasets, observations of subducted slabs in the mantle,
and plate kinematic constraints to constrain models for the India-Asia collision and the …

A tectonic model reconciling evidence for the collisions between India, Eurasia and intra-oceanic arcs of the central-eastern Tethys

AD Gibbons, S Zahirovic, RD Müller, JM Whittaker… - Gondwana …, 2015 - Elsevier
Despite several decades of investigations, inferences on the timing and nature of collisions
along the Mesozoic–Cenozoic Eurasian margin remain controversial. We assimilate …

Chromitites in ophiolites: How, where, when, why? Part II. The crystallization of chromitites

JM González-Jiménez, WL Griffin, JA Proenza… - Lithos, 2014 - Elsevier
A review of previous work relevant to the formation of concentrations of chromite in
peridotites from ophiolitic (sl) sequences highlights some of the key problems in …

Mantle recycling: transition zone metamorphism of Tibetan ophiolitic peridotites and its tectonic implications

WL Griffin, JC Afonso, EA Belousova… - Journal of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
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 …

The origin and significance of crustal minerals in ophiolitic chromitites and peridotites

PT Robinson, RB Trumbull, A Schmitt, JS Yang… - Gondwana …, 2015 - Elsevier
Various combinations of zircon, quartz, corundum, K-feldspar, plagioclase, apatite,
amphibole, rutile, titanite, almandine garnet, kyanite, andalusite, and coesite have been …

Diamond-and coesite-bearing chromitites from the Luobusa ophiolite, Tibet

JS Yang, L Dobrzhinetskaya, WJ Bai, QS Fang… - …, 2007 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Diamonds and other ultrahigh pressure (UHP) minerals have been reported previously from
the Luobusa ophiolite of Tibet, but these minerals have thus far been found only as …