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Recognition of ocean plate stratigraphy in accretionary orogens through Earth history: A record of 3.8billion years of sea floor spreading, subduction, and accretion
Timothy M. Kusky,Brian F. Windley,Inna Safonova,K. Wakita,John Wakabayashi,Ali Polat,Ali Polat,M. Santosh,M. Santosh +8 more
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Ocean plate stratigraphy (OPS) is a term used to describe the sequence of sedimentary and volcanic rocks deposited on oceanic crust substratum from the time it forms at a spreading center, to the time that it is incorporated into an accretionary prism at a convergent margin this paper.About:
This article is published in Gondwana Research.The article was published on 2013-09-01. It has received 267 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Oceanic plateau & Seafloor spreading.read more
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Late Paleozoic to early Triassic multiple roll-back and oroclinal bending of the Mongolia collage in Central Asia
Wenjiao Xiao,Brian F. Windley,Chunming Han,Chunming Han,Wei Liu,Bo Wan,Bo Wan,Ji'en Zhang,Songjian Ao,Zhiyong Zhang,Dongfang Song +10 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a new tectonic model of huge roll-back in the formation of the accretionary tectonics of the Mongolian collage in Central Asia is proposed.
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The zircon archive of continent formation through time
Abstract: The strong resilience of the mineral zircon and its ability to host a wealth of isotopic information make it the best deep-time archive of Earth's continental crust. Zircon is found in most felsic igneous rocks, can be precisely dated and can fingerprint magmatic sources; thus, it has been widely used to document the formation and evolution of continental crust, from pluton- to global-scale. Here, we present a review of major contributions that zircon studies have made in terms of understanding key questions involving the formation of the continents. These include the conditions of continent formation on early Earth, the onset of plate tectonics and subduction, the rate of crustal growth through time and the governing balance of continental addition v. continental loss, and the role of preservation bias in the zircon record.
Supplementary material: A compilation used in this study of previously published detrital zircon U-Pb-Hf isotope data are available at http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/SUP18791
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Secular change and the onset of plate tectonics on Earth
Richard M. Palin,M. Santosh,M. Santosh,Wentao Cao,Shan-Shan Li,David Hernández-Uribe,A. J. Parsons +6 more
TL;DR: A review of evidence for paleo-subduction preserved within the geological record, with a focus on metamorphic rocks and the geodynamic information that can be derived from them is provided in this paper.
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Anatomy of a subduction complex: architecture of the Franciscan Complex, California, at multiple length and time scales
TL;DR: The Franciscan Complex of California records over 150 million years of continuous E-dipping subduction that terminated with conversion to a dextral transform plate boundary as discussed by the authors, with significant along-strike variability, and downwarddecreasing metamorphic grade and accretion ages.
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The subduction plate interface: rock record and mechanical coupling (from long to short timescales)
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used rocks recovered from subduction zones, together with insights from thermomechanical modelling, to provide a new dynamic vision of the nature, structure and properties of the plate interface and to bridge the gap between the mechanical behavior of active subducting zones (e.g.,coupling inferred from geophysical monitoring) and fossil ones (i.e.couplings required to detach and recover subducted slab fragments).
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Tectonic models for accretion of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt
TL;DR: The Central Asian Orogenic Belt ( c. 1000-250 Ma) formed by accretion of island arcs, ophiolites, oceanic islands, seamounts, accretionary wedges, and oceanic plateaux and microcontinents in a manner comparable with that of circum-Pacific Mesozoic-Cenozoic orogens is studied in this article.
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Dynamics of orogenic wedges and the uplift of high-pressure metamorphic rocks
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors model a sink-shaped continua with a rigid buttress behind and a subducting litho-spheric slab beneath, where the gravity forces generated by the wedge geometry balance the traction exerted on its underside by the sink.
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Ophiolite genesis and global tectonics: Geochemical and tectonic fingerprinting of ancient oceanic lithosphere
Yildirim Dilek,Harald Furnes +1 more
TL;DR: A review of these ideas as well as a new classification of ophiolites, incorporating the diversity in their structural architecture and geochemical signatures that results from variations in petrological, geochemical, and tectonic processes during formation in different geodynamic settings is presented in this article.