A transdisciplinary and community-driven database to unravel subduction zone initiation

F Crameri, V Magni, M Domeier, GE Shephard… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Subduction zones are pivotal for the recycling of Earth's outer layer into its interior. However,
the conditions under which new subduction zones initiate are enigmatic. Here, we …

Subduction of oceanic lithosphere in the Alps: Selective and archetypal from (slow-spreading) oceans

P Agard - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
The Alps are amongst the best subduction archives in the world, with abundant blueschists
and eclogites preserving fragments of mantle, gabbros, thinned continental margin and …

[HTML][HTML] 特提斯地球动力学

吴福元, 万博, 赵亮, 肖文交, 朱日祥 - 岩石学报, 2020 - html.rhhz.net
特提斯是地球显生宙期间位于北方劳亚大陆和南方冈瓦纳大陆之间的巨型海洋,
它在新生代期间的闭合形成现今东西向展布的欧洲阿尔卑斯山, 土耳其-伊朗高原 …

Multi-proxy evidence for subduction of the Neoproterozoic Adamastor Ocean and Wilson cycle tectonics in the South Atlantic Brasiliano Orogenic System of Western …

FA Caxito, LA Hartmann, M Heilbron… - Precambrian …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Field, petrographic, geophysical, geochronological, elemental and isotopic data
support the identification of distinct components of a Wilson cycle (rift-drift-subduction …

[HTML][HTML] Kinematics and extent of the Piemont–Liguria Basin–implications for subduction processes in the Alps

E Le Breton, S Brune, K Ustaszewski, S Zahirovic… - Solid Earth, 2021 - se.copernicus.org
Assessing the size of a former ocean of which only remnants are found in mountain belts is
challenging but crucial to understanding subduction and exhumation processes. Here we …

[HTML][HTML] Extreme metamorphism and metamorphic facies series at convergent plate boundaries: Implications for supercontinent dynamics

YF Zheng, RX Chen - Geosphere, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Crustal metamorphism under extreme pressure-temperature conditions produces
characteristic ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) and ultrahigh-temperature (UHT) mineral …

Flow of partially molten crust controlling construction, growth and collapse of the Variscan orogenic belt: the geologic record of the French Massif Central

O Vanderhaeghe, O Laurent… - Bulletin de la …, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Flow of partially molten crust controlling construction, growth and collapse of the Variscan
orogenic belt: the geologic record of the French Massif CentralImpact du fluage de la croûte …

[HTML][HTML] The Sveconorwegian orogeny–Reamalgamation of the fragmented southwestern margin of Fennoscandia

T Slagstad, M Marker, NMW Roberts, K Saalmann… - Precambrian …, 2020 - Elsevier
The Sveconorwegian orogeny encompasses magmatic, metamorphic and deformational
events between ca. 1140 and 920 Ma at the southwestern margin of Fennoscandia. In …

Porphyry copper and skarn fertility of the northern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau collisional granitoids

S Zhong, S Li, C Feng, Y Liu, M Santosh, S He… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
The recent discovery of numerous large porphyry Cu deposits in the southern Qinghai-Tibet
Plateau shows that porphyry Cu deposits can be hosted in magmatic suites in collisional …

Basalt Mo isotope evidence for crustal recycling in continental subduction zone

W Fang, LQ Dai, YF Zheng, ZF Zhao - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2022 - Elsevier
Highly variable molybdenum (Mo) isotope compositions are common in mafic arc magmas
above oceanic subduction zones, but Mo isotopes of mafic magmas related to continental …