Suprasubduction zone ophiolite formation along the periphery of Mesozoic Gondwana

Y Dilek, H Furnes, M Shallo - Gondwana Research, 2007 - Elsevier
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 …

Geodynamic controls on magmatic arc migration and quiescence

GM Gianni, SP Luján - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Reconfigurations of magmatic arcs through time have been recognized since pioneering
works, describing inland and trenchward arc migrations or magmatic shut-off lasting for …

Structure and geochemistry of Tethyan ophiolites and their petrogenesis in subduction rollback systems

Y Dilek, H Furnes - Lithos, 2009 - Elsevier
Suprasubduction zone (SSZ) ophiolites in orogenic belts represent oceanic crust generation
in subduction rollback cycles during the closing stages of basins prior to terminal continental …

The tectonic regime along the Andes: Present‐day and Mesozoic regimes

VA Ramos - Geological Journal, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The analyses of the main parameters controlling the present Chile‐type and Marianas‐type
tectonic settings developed along the eastern Pacific region show four different tectonic …

When did plate tectonics begin? Evidence from the geologic record

KC Condie, A Kröner - 2008 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Modern-style plate tectonics can be tracked into the geologic past with petrotectonic
assemblages and other plate-tectonic indicators. These indicators suggest that modern plate …

Formation of hybrid arc andesites beneath thick continental crust

SM Straub, A Gomez-Tuena, FM Stuart… - Earth and Planetary …, 2011 - Elsevier
Andesite magmatism at convergent margins is essential for the differentiation of silicate
Earth, but no consensus exists as to andesite petrogenesis. Models proposing origin of …

When did the subduction first initiate in the southern Paleo-Asian Ocean: New constraints from a Cambrian intra-oceanic arc system in West Junggar, NW China

R Ren, BF Han, Z Xu, YZ Zhou, B Liu, L Zhang… - Earth and Planetary …, 2014 - Elsevier
We report here a Cambrian southward-subducting intra-oceanic arc system in the southern
West Junggar, NW China, where an immature arc occurred initially on SSZ-type ophiolites …

Geochronology and geochemistry of the Early Jurassic Yeba Formation volcanic rocks in southern Tibet: Initiation of back-arc rifting and crustal accretion in the …

Y Wei, Z Zhao, Y Niu, DC Zhu, D Liu, Q Wang, Z Hou… - Lithos, 2017 - Elsevier
Understanding the geological history of the Lhasa Terrane prior to the India–Asia collision (~
55±10 Ma) is essential for improved models of syn-collisional and post-collisional processes …

The smoothness and shapes of chondrite-normalized rare earth element patterns in basalts

HSC O'Neill - Journal of Petrology, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The customary practice for displaying REE abundances is to normalize them to chondritic
abundances and then to plot these normalized abundances in order of atomic number, Z …

[HTML][HTML] The effects of back-arc spreading on arc magmatism

V Magni - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2019 - Elsevier
Mantle flow is a key feature that can affect melt production and composition in and around
subduction zones. In this study, I use three-dimensional numerical models to investigate the …