Hydrothermal vents are among the most fascinating environments that exist within the
modern oceans, being home to highly productive communities of specially-adapted fauna …

Abstract Field, petrographic, geophysical, geochronological, elemental and isotopic data
support the identification of distinct components of a Wilson cycle (rift-drift-subduction …

Understanding whether ophiolites formed during subduction inception or above long-lived
subduction zones poses an outstanding challenge as modern examples of incipient …

Plots of chondrite-normalised rare earth element (REE) patterns often appear as smooth
curves. These curves can be decomposed into orthogonal polynomial functions (shape …

The growth of continental crust through melt extraction from the mantle is a critical
component of the chemical evolution of the Earth and the development of plate tectonics …

The subduction initiation associated with the beginning of accretionary orogens has been
thought to be related to global plate reorganization. To characterize the initial subduction …

Potassium (K) isotopic compositions for a suite of crustal rocks (plutonic unit, sheeted dike
complex, and volcanic sequence) in the Troodos ophiolite, Cyprus, were determined to …

Circulation of seawater at oceanic spreading centers extracts heat, drives rock alteration,
and transports leached metals to shallower levels of the crust, where they may precipitate …

Hydrostatic pressure exerted by the ocean water column fundamentally influences magmatic
and hydrothermal processes in submarine volcanic settings and is therefore an important …

The Kızıldağ (Hatay) ophiolite in southern Turkey represents a complete, although fault-
dissected, remnant of oceanic lithosphere that formed within the South Tethyan ocean …