Ophiolite

Do microcontinents nucleate subduction initiation?
Subduction initiation is a pivotal process in plate tectonics. Models of subduction initiation include the collapse of passive margins, …
Mingshuai Zhu, Zhiyong Yan, Daniel Pastor-Galán, Lin Chen, Laicheng Miao, Fuqin Zhang, Shun Li, Shunhu Yang
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Do microcontinents nucleate subduction initiation?
Large-scale Permo-Triassic back-arc extensions of the Mongol-Okhotsk Ocean
The Late Paleozoic–Mesozoic Mongol- Okhotsk orogenic belt marks the final aggregation of East Asia. The geodynamics of the …
Mingshuai Zhu, John Wakabayashi, Daniel Pastor-Galán, Fuqin Zhang, Ariuntsetseg Ganbat, Laicheng Miao, Shun Li, Shunhu Yang, Zeli Wang
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Large-scale Permo-Triassic back-arc extensions of the Mongol-Okhotsk Ocean
Discovery of a >1,000 km Cambrian Eclogite-Bearing High-Pressure Metamorphic Belt in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Implications for the Final Closure of the Pan-Rodinian Ocean
The immense Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB) records the transition from the Pan-Rodinian Mirovoi Ocean to the Paleo-Asian Ocean, but …
Mingshuai Zhu, Fuqin Zhang, Mathijs Smit, Daniel Pastor-Galán, Carl Guilmette, Laicheng Miao, Yi Zou, Shunhu Yang, Ariuntsetseg Ganbat, Lorraine Tual, Zeli Wang
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Discovery of a >1,000 km Cambrian Eclogite-Bearing High-Pressure Metamorphic Belt in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Implications for the Final Closure of the Pan-Rodinian Ocean
Evidence for early Pennsylvanian subduction initiation in the Mongol–Okhotsk Ocean from the Adaatsag ophiolite (Mongolia)
The Late Paleozoic–Mesozoic Mongol–Okhotsk Ocean was the latest ocean basin witnessing the final amalgamation of East Asia. However, …
Mingshuai Zhu, Daniel Pastor-Galán, Laicheng Miao, Fuqin Zhang, Ariuntsetseg Ganbat, Shun Li, Shunhu Yang, Zeli Wang
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Evidence for early Pennsylvanian subduction initiation in the Mongol–Okhotsk Ocean from the Adaatsag ophiolite (Mongolia)
Cretaceous to Miocene NW Pacific Plate Kinematic Constraints: Paleomagnetism and Ar–Ar Geochronology in the Mineoka Ophiolite Mélange (Japan)
The Mineoka Ophiolite Mélange is located at the intersection of the Pacific, Philippine Sea, Eurasian, and North American plates. The …
Ariuntsetseg Ganbat, Daniel Pastor-Galán, Naoto Hirano, Norihiro Nakamura, Hirochika Sumino, Yuji Yamaguchi, Tatsuki Tsujimori
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