The Asian continent consists of many continental blocks that assembled during the
Phanerozoic, accompanied by widespread granitoids. By compiling a series of digital maps …

Ophiolites are important archives of oceanic crust development and preservation in the rock
record, and the Alpine-Himalayan Orogenic Belt (AHOB) is one of the most comprehensive …

In this paper, a new discrimination diagram using absolute measures of Th and Nb is
applied to post-Archean ophiolites to best discriminate a large number of different ophiolitic …

The Zagros Mountains of Iran formed by continental collision from closure of the Neo-
Tethyan Ocean. The Zagros Orogen underlying the mountain range reflects a much longer …

Iran is a mosaic of continental terranes of Cadomian (520–600 Ma) age, stitched together
along sutures decorated by Paleozoic and Mesozoic ophiolites. Here we present the current …

The evolution of the Neo-Tethys realm had a significant impact on the Phanerozoic
paleogeography of the Iran Plateau. However, there remains significant debate regarding …

The Fuchuan ophiolite occurs along the easternmost domain of the Jiangnan Orogen,
considered as the suture between Yangtze and Cathaysia Blocks in South China. Here we …

Eclogites are high-pressure/low-temperature metamorphic rocks and are regularly
considered as an indicator of ancient subduction zones. Eclogites have recently been found …

The Iranian plateau has a more straightforward relationship between the Paleo-Tethys and
Neo-Tethys, than other regions in the Tethyan realm and is an ideal place to test the genetic …

The Zagros fold-thrust belt in the Kurdistan region of Iraq encroached southward toward a
rapidly subsiding Neogene foreland basin and was later partitioned by out-of-sequence …