Long-term evolution of a plume-induced subduction in the Neotethys realm

Timing and causes of the mid-Cretaceous global plate reorganization event

(2020) Hugo K.H. Olierook et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Plume‐Induced Subduction Initiation: Single‐Slab or Multi‐Slab Subduction?

(2020) Marzieh Baes et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Structure and tectonics of the continental margins of India and the adjacent deep ocean basins: current status of knowledge and some unresolved problems

(2020) V. Yatheesh   EPISODES

Successive shifts of the India-Africa transform plate boundary during the Late Cretaceous-Paleogene interval: Implications for ophiolite emplacement along transforms

(2020) Mathieu Rodriguez et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Evidence for simple volcanic rifting not complex subduction initiation in the Laxmi Basin

(2020) Peter D. Clift et al.   Nature Communications

The convergence history of India-Eurasia records multiple subduction dynamics processes

(2020) Adina E. Pusok et al.   Science Advances

Indo-Atlantic plate accelerations around the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary: A time-scale error, not a plume-push signal

(2020) L. Pérez-Díaz et al.   GEOLOGY

Plate tectonics and mantle controls on plume dynamics

(2020) Maëlis Arnould et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Geochemical characterization of ophiolites in the Alpine-Himalayan Orogenic Belt: Magmatically and tectonically diverse evolution of the Mesozoic Neotethyan oceanic crust

(2020) Harald Furnes et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Plume‐induced break‐up of a subducting plate: Microcontinent formation without cessation of the subduction process

(2019) Alexander Koptev et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Kinematic and paleomagnetic restoration of the Semail ophiolite (Oman) reveals subduction initiation along an ancient Neotethyan fracture zone

(2019) Douwe J.J. van Hinsbergen et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Early subduction dynamics recorded by the metamorphic sole of the Mt. Albert ophiolitic complex (Gaspé, Quebec)

(2019) Benoît Dubacq et al.   LITHOS

Relict subduction initiation along a passive margin in the northwest Indian Ocean

(2019) Dhananjai K. Pandey et al.   Nature Communications

Northward drift of the Azores plume in the Earth’s mantle

(2019) Maëlis Arnould et al.   Nature Communications

What drives tectonic plates?

(2019) Nicolas Coltice et al.   Science Advances

Where does subduction initiate and cease? A global scale perspective

(2019) Martina M. Ulvrova et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Subduction history reveals Cretaceous slab superflux as a possible cause for the mid-Cretaceous plume pulse and superswell events

(2019) Madison East et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Fossil seamount in southeast Zagros records intraoceanic arc to back-arc transition: New constraints for the evolution of the Neotethys

(2019) G. Bonnet et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Subduction initiation dynamics along a transform fault control trench curvature and ophiolite ages

(2018) Xin Zhou et al.   GEOLOGY

Thermal evolution of an ancient subduction interface revealed by Lu–Hf garnet geochronology, Halilbağı Complex (Anatolia)

(2018) Amaury Pourteau et al.   Geoscience Frontiers

The Spongtang Massif in Ladakh, NW Himalaya: An Early Cretaceous record of spontaneous, intra-oceanic subduction initiation in the Neotethys

(2018) Solomon Buckman et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

The subduction plate interface: Rock record and mechanical coupling (from long to short time scales)

(2018) P. Agard et al.   LITHOS

Forced subduction initiation recorded in the sole and crust of the Semail Ophiolite of Oman

(2018) Carl Guilmette et al.   Nature Geoscience

Petrogenesis of Late Cretaceous Volcanism in Kazhaba Area and its relationship with mantle plume activity of Reunion hotspot

(2017) Rehanul Haq Siddiqui et al.   Journal of Earth Science

Petrological evidence for stepwise accretion of metamorphic soles during subduction infancy (Semail ophiolite, Oman and UAE)

(2017) Mathieu Soret et al.   JOURNAL OF METAMORPHIC GEOLOGY

Experimental and observational evidence for plume-induced subduction on Venus

(2017) A. Davaille et al.   Nature Geoscience

Subduction initiation in nature and models: A review

(2017) Robert J. Stern et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Kinematics of Late Cretaceous subduction initiation in the Neo-Tethys Ocean reconstructed from ophiolites of Turkey, Cyprus, and Syria

(2017) Marco Maffione et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Ocean Basin Evolution and Global-Scale Plate Reorganization Events Since Pangea Breakup

(2016) R. Dietmar Müller et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Neo-Tethys geodynamics and mantle convection: from extension to compression in Africa and a conceptual model for obduction

(2016) Laurent Jolivet et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

Plate interface rheological switches during subduction infancy: Control on slab penetration and metamorphic sole formation

(2016) P. Agard et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Synchronous formation of the metamorphic sole and igneous crust of the Semail ophiolite: New constraints on the tectonic evolution during ophiolite formation from high-precision U–Pb zircon geochronology

(2016) Matthew Rioux et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Global plate boundary evolution and kinematics since the late Paleozoic

(2016) Kara J. Matthews et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Subduction controls the distribution and fragmentation of Earth’s tectonic plates

(2016) Claire Mallard et al.   NATURE

The global range of subduction zone thermal structures from exhumed blueschists and eclogites: Rocks are hotter than models

(2015) Sarah C. Penniston-Dorland et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

OIB- and P-Type Ophiolites Along the Yarlung-Zangbo Suture Zone (YZSZ), Southern Tibet: Poly-Phase Melt History and Mantle Sources of the Neotethyan Oceanic Lithosphere

(2015) Gaoxue Yang   EPISODES

Late Cretaceous plume-induced subduction initiation along the southern margin of the Caribbean and NW South America: The first documented example with implications for the onset of plate tectonics

(2015) Scott A. Whattam et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

A tectonic model reconciling evidence for the collisions between India, Eurasia and intra-oceanic arcs of the central-eastern Tethys

(2015) A.D. Gibbons et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Plate tectonics on the Earth triggered by plume-induced subduction initiation

(2015) T. V. Gerya et al.   NATURE

Anomalously fast convergence of India and Eurasia caused by double subduction

(2015) Oliver Jagoutz et al.   Nature Geoscience

Tectonic interactions between India and Arabia since the Jurassic reconstructed from marine geophysics, ophiolite geology, and seismic tomography

(2015) Carmen Gaina et al.   TECTONICS

Parameters controlling dynamically self-consistent plate tectonics and single-sided subduction in global models of mantle convection

(2015) Fabio Crameri et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Ophiolites and Their Origins

(2014) Y. Dilek et al.   Elements

The anticorrelated velocities of Africa and India in the Late Cretaceous and early Cenozoic

(2014) Steven C. Cande et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Spontaneous development of arcuate single-sided subduction in global 3-D mantle convection models with a free surface

(2014) Fabio Crameri et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Cretaceous to present kinematics of the Indian, African and Seychelles plates

(2013) Graeme Eagles et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

The African Plate: A history of oceanic crust accretion and subduction since the Jurassic

(2013) Carmen Gaina et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Tectonic development of the Samail ophiolite: High-precision U-Pb zircon geochronology and Sm-Nd isotopic constraints on crustal growth and emplacement

(2013) Matthew Rioux et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Linking continental drift, plate tectonics and the thermal state of the Earth's mantle

(2012) T. Rolf et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

A global-scale plate reorganization event at 105−100Ma

(2012) Kara J. Matthews et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

U-Pb zircon crystallization age of the Muslim Bagh ophiolite: Enigmatic remains of an extensive pre-Himalayan arc

(2012) M. Ishaq Kakar et al.   GEOLOGY

Rapid crustal accretion and magma assimilation in the Oman-U.A.E. ophiolite: High precision U-Pb zircon geochronology of the gabbroic crust

(2012) Matthew Rioux et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Absolute plate motions in a reference frame defined by moving hot spots in the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian oceans

(2012) Pavel V. Doubrovine et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Continents, supercontinents, mantle thermal mixing, and mantle thermal isolation: Theory, numerical simulations, and laboratory experiments

(2011) A. Lenardic et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Discovery of a dismembered metamorphic sole in the Saga ophiolitic mélange, South Tibet: Assessing an Early Cretaceous disruption of the Neo-Tethyan supra-subduction zone and consequences on basin closing

(2011) Carl Guilmette et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

The Indus–Yarlung Zangbo ophiolites from Nanga Parbat to Namche Barwa syntaxes, southern Tibet: First synthesis of petrology, geochemistry, and geochronology with incidences on geodynamic reconstructions of Neo-Tethys

(2011) R. Hébert et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Acceleration and deceleration of India-Asia convergence since the Cretaceous: Roles of mantle plumes and continental collision

(2011) Douwe J. J. van Hinsbergen et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Indian and African plate motions driven by the push force of the Réunion plume head

(2011) Steven C. Cande et al.   NATURE

Tectonic setting and timing of the final Deccan flood basalt eruptions

(2010) Peter Hooper et al.   GEOLOGY

Plume-like upper mantle instabilities drive subduction initiation

(2010) Evgueni Burov et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Arabia-Somalia plate kinematics, evolution of the Aden-Owen-Carlsberg triple junction, and opening of the Gulf of Aden

(2010) Marc Fournier et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Geochemistry and geochronology of the metamorphic sole underlying the Xigaze Ophiolite, Yarlung Zangbo Suture Zone, South Tibet

(2009) Carl Guilmette et al.   LITHOS

True polar wander in mantle convection models with multiple, mobile continents

(2008) Benjamin R. Phillips et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Subduction initiation by thermal–chemical plumes: Numerical studies

(2008) Kosuke Ueda et al.   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS

Modelling compressible mantle convection with large viscosity contrasts in a three-dimensional spherical shell using the yin-yang grid

(2008) Paul J. Tackley   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS