How new subduction zones form is an emerging field of scientific research with important
implications for our understanding of lithospheric strength, the driving force of plate …

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 …

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 …

To address the question of the initiation and mechanisms involved in the process of
subduction zone formation, we explored most of the available evidence for the subduction …

Timing of the collision between India and Asia is the key boundary condition in all models for
the evolution of the Himalaya‐Tibetan orogenic system. Thus it profoundly affects the …

The tectonic setting in which the first continental crust formed, and the extent to which
modern processes of arc magmatism at convergent plate margins were operative on the …

We establish the 'subduction initiation rule'(SIR) which predicts that most ophiolites form
during subduction initiation (SI) and that the diagnostic magmatic chemostratigraphic …

High-pressure low-temperature (HP–LT) metamorphic rocks provide invaluable constraints
on the evolution of convergent zones. Based on a worldwide compilation of key information …

A Cenozoic tectonic reconstruction is presented for the Southwest Pacific region located
east of Australia. The reconstruction is constrained by large geological and geophysical …

Although the exhumation of high pressure (HP) and ultrahigh pressure (UHP) rocks is an
integral process in subduction, it is a transient process, likely taking place during the …