Geochronology and geochemistry of submarine volcanic rocks in the Yamansu iron deposit, Eastern Tianshan Mountains, NW China: constraints on the …

T Hou, Z Zhang, M Santosh, J Encarnacion, J Zhu… - Ore Geology …, 2014 - Elsevier
The Yamansu skarn iron deposit is hosted in Early Carboniferous submarine lava flow and
volcaniclastic rocks of the Yamansu Formation in Eastern Tianshan Mountains, NW China …

Age, geochemistry, and tectonic implications of a late Paleozoic stitching pluton in the North Tian Shan suture zone, western China

BF Han, ZJ Guo, ZC Zhang, L Zhang, JF Chen… - …, 2010 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Central Asian orogenic belt is the largest tectonic assembly of continental and
oceanic terranes on Earth due to closure of the paleo–Asian Ocean in the Phanerozoic …

Blueschist‐facies metamorphism during Paleozoic orogeny in southwestern Japan: Phengite K–Ar ages of blueschist‐facies tectonic blocks in a serpentinite melange …

T Tsujimori, T Itaya - Island Arc, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
Blueschist‐bearing Osayama serpentinite melange develops beneath a peridotite body of
the Oeyama ophiolite which occupies the highest position structurally in the central Chugoku …

Permian arc–back-arc basin development along the Ailaoshan tectonic zone: Geochemical, isotopic and geochronological evidence from the Mojiang volcanic rocks …

W Fan, Y Wang, A Zhang, F Zhang, Y Zhang - Lithos, 2010 - Elsevier
This paper presents a set of new SHRIMP zircon U–Pb geochronological, elemental and Sr–
Nd–Pb isotopic data for the Wusu and Yaxuanqiao basaltic rocks (the Mojiang area) along …

Geochemical and Nd–Pb isotopic characteristics of the Tethyan asthenosphere: implications for the origin of the Indian Ocean mantle domain

JF Xu, PR Castillo - Tectonophysics, 2004 - Elsevier
It is unclear why the Pb, Nd, and Sr isotopic composition of the modern mid-ocean ridge
basalts (MORB) from the Indian Ocean is different from that of the North Atlantic and Pacific …

Geology of supra-subduction zones-Implications for the origin of ophiolites

JW Hawkins - 2003 - repository.geologyscience.ru
Ophiolites are rock assemblages recognized as relict fragments of oceanic crust and upper
mantle. They provide insights into petrologic and seismic layering of in situ oceanic …

MORB-type rocks from the Paleo-Tethyan Mian-Lueyang northern ophiolite in the Qinling Mountains, central China: implications for the source of the low 206Pb …

J Xu, PR Castillo, X Li, X Yu, B Zhang, Y Han - Earth and Planetary Science …, 2002 - Elsevier
Samples from a basalt and gabbro section of the Paleo-Tethyan (∼ 350 Ma) Mian-Lue
northern ophiolites (MLNO) in the Qinling Mountains of central China display sub-parallel …

Geochemistry of late Paleozoic mafic igneous rocks from the Kuerti area, Xinjiang, northwest China: implications for backarc mantle evolution

JF Xu, PR Castillo, FR Chen, HC Niu, XY Yu, ZP Zhen - Chemical Geology, 2003 - Elsevier
The composition of Kuerti mafic rocks in the Altay Mountains in northwest China ranges from
highly geochemically depleted, with very low La, Ta and Nb and high εNd (t) values, to …

Tectonic significance of the geochemistry and petrology of ophiolites in southeast Anatolia, Turkey

O Parlak, T Rızaoğlu, U Bağcı, F Karaoğlan, V Höck - Tectonophysics, 2009 - Elsevier
The southeast Anatolian ophiolites form discontinuous linear belts of oceanic fragments
immediately north of the Bitlis–Zagros suture, which marks a continental collision zone …

Spatial and temporal relationships between ophiolites and their metamorphic soles: a test of models of forearc ophiolite genesis

J Wakabayashi, Y Dilek - Special Papers-Geological Society of …, 2000 - books.google.com
Thin sheets of high-grade metamorphic rocks, called metamorphic soles, are found
structurally beneath many ophiolites, apparently formed at the initiation of intraoceanic …