The subduction plate interface: Rock record and mechanical coupling (from long to short timescales)

P Agard, A Plunder, S Angiboust, G Bonnet, J Ruh - Lithos, 2018 - Elsevier
Short-and long-term processes at or close to the subduction plate interface (eg, mineral
transformations, fluid release, seismicity and more generally deformation) might be more …

The geological history of northwestern South America: from Pangaea to the early collision of the Caribbean Large Igneous Province (290–75 Ma)

R Spikings, R Cochrane, D Villagomez… - Gondwana …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Northwestern South America preserves a record of the assembly of western
Pangaea, its disassembly and initiation of the far western Tethys Wilson Cycle, subsequent …

Geochronology, geochemistry and tectonic evolution of the Western and Central cordilleras of Colombia

D Villagómez, R Spikings, T Magna, A Kammer… - Lithos, 2011 - Elsevier
Autochthonous rocks of the pre-Cretaceous continental margin of NW South America (the
Tahami Terrane) are juxtaposed against a series of para-autochthonous rock units that …

Kinematic reconstruction of the Caribbean region since the Early Jurassic

LM Boschman, DJJ van Hinsbergen, TH Torsvik… - Earth-Science …, 2014 - Elsevier
The Caribbean oceanic crust was formed west of the North and South American continents,
probably from Late Jurassic through Early Cretaceous time. Its subsequent evolution has …

Thermochronology and tectonics of the Central and Western Cordilleras of Colombia: Early Cretaceous–Tertiary evolution of the northern Andes

D Villagómez, R Spikings - Lithos, 2013 - Elsevier
New thermochronological data record a complex cooling history in the Central and Western
Cordilleras of Colombia that is a function of Early Cretaceous to late Miocene tectonic …

[HTML][HTML] Four billion years of ophiolites reveal secular trends in oceanic crust formation

H Furnes, M De Wit, Y Dilek - Geoscience Frontiers, 2014 - Elsevier
We combine a geological, geochemical and tectonic dataset from 118 ophiolite complexes
of the major global Phanerozoic orogenic belts with similar datasets of ophiolites from 111 …

Paleotethyan subduction process revealed from Triassic blueschists in the Lancang tectonic belt of Southwest China

W Fan, Y Wang, Y Zhang, Y Zhang, F Jourdan, J Zi… - Tectonophysics, 2015 - Elsevier
The subduction of the Paleotethyan Ocean and subsequent continental collision along the
Lancang tectonic belt of the southeastern Paleotethyan belt is a major tectonic event in …

Molybdenum systematics of subducted crust record reactive fluid flow from underlying slab serpentine dehydration

S Chen, RC Hin, T John, R Brooker, B Bryan… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Fluids liberated from subducting slabs are critical in global geochemical cycles. We
investigate the behaviour of Mo during slab dehydration using two suites of exhumed …

Fluid-mobile elements in serpentinites: Constraints on serpentinisation environments and element cycling in subduction zones

D Peters, A Bretscher, T John, M Scambelluri, T Pettke - Chemical geology, 2017 - Elsevier
Fluid-mobile element (FME) systematics in serpentinites are key to unravel the environments
of mantle rock hydration, dehydration, and element recycling in subduction zones. Here we …

A review of Himalayan stratigraphy, magmatism, and structure

AJ Martin - Gondwana Research, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Himalayan Orogen consists of two rock packages that parallel the topographic
trend of the mountain belt between the eastern and western syntaxes. To avoid confusion …