A record of plume-induced plate rotation triggering subduction initiation

The interaction between mantle plumes and lithosphere and its surface expressions: 3-D numerical modelling

(2021) Yongming Wang et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

History of subduction polarity reversal during arc‐continent collision: constraints from the Andaman Ophiolite and its metamorphic sole

(2020) Alexis Plunder et al.   TECTONICS

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

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

Rapid drift of the Tethyan Himalaya terrane before two-stage India-Asia collision

(2020) Jie Yuan et al.   National Science Review

Mesozoic–Cenozoic geological evolution of the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen and working tectonic hypotheses

(2019) Paul Kapp et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

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

Orogenic architecture of the Mediterranean region and kinematic reconstruction of its tectonic evolution since the Triassic

(2019) Douwe J.J. van Hinsbergen et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Burma Terrane part of the Trans-Tethyan arc during collision with India according to palaeomagnetic data

(2019) Jan Westerweel et al.   Nature Geoscience

Cyclical one-way continental rupture-drift in the Tethyan evolution: Subduction-driven plate tectonics

(2019) Bo Wan et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

What drives tectonic plates?

(2019) Nicolas Coltice et al.   Science Advances

Geological record of the transition from induced to self-sustained subduction in the Oman Mountains

(2019) Stefano Tavani et al.   JOURNAL OF GEODYNAMICS

Early Cretaceous origin of the Woyla Arc (Sumatra, Indonesia) on the Australian plate

(2018) Eldert L. Advokaat et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

GPlates: Building a Virtual Earth Through Deep Time

(2018) R. Dietmar Müller et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Evidence for an early-MORB to fore-arc evolution within the Zagros suture zone: Constraints from zircon U-Pb geochronology and geochemistry of the Neyriz ophiolite (South Iran)

(2018) Iman Monsef et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Atlas of the underworld: Slab remnants in the mantle, their sinking history, and a new outlook on lower mantle viscosity

(2018) Douwe G. van der Meer et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Reconstructing Greater India: Paleogeographic, kinematic, and geodynamic perspectives

(2018) Douwe J.J. van Hinsbergen et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

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

(2018) Amaury Pourteau et al.   Geoscience Frontiers

Kinematics and U-Pb zircon ages of the sole metamorphics of the Marmaris Ophiolite, Lycian Nappes, Southwest Turkey

(2018) Talip Güngör et al.   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

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

(2018) Carl Guilmette et al.   Nature Geoscience

The diversity of tectonic modes and thoughts about transitions between them

(2018) A. Lenardic   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

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

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

Tectonic evolution and deep mantle structure of the eastern Tethys since the latest Jurassic

(2016) Sabin Zahirovic et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

A failure to reject: Testing the correlation between large igneous provinces and deep mantle structures with EDF statistics

(2016) Pavel V. Doubrovine et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Clockwise rotation of the entire Oman ophiolite occurred in a suprasubduction zone setting

(2016) Antony Morris et al.   GEOLOGY

Topography caused by mantle density variations: observation-based estimates and models derived from tomography and lithosphere thickness

(2016) Bernhard Steinberger   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

U–Pb zircon ages, field geology and geochemistry of the Kermanshah ophiolite (Iran): From continental rifting at 79Ma to oceanic core complex at ca. 36Ma in the southern Neo-Tethys

(2016) Songjian Ao et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

The Ezhimala Igneous Complex, southern India: Possible imprint of Late Cretaceous magmatism within rift setting associated with India–Madagascar separation

(2016) M. Ram Mohan et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

The tauride ophiolites of Anatolia (Turkey): A review

(2016) Osman Parlak   Journal of Earth Science

Tectonic evolution and paleogeography of the Kırşehir Block and the Central Anatolian Ophiolites, Turkey

(2016) Douwe J. J. van Hinsbergen et al.   TECTONICS

A comparison of lithospheric thickness models

(2016) Bernhard Steinberger et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Jurassic metabasic rocks in the Kızılırmak accretionary complex (Kargı region, Central Pontides, Northern Turkey)

(2016) Ömer Faruk Çelik et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Lower Cretaceous Xigaze ophiolites formed in the Gangdese forearc: Evidence from paleomagnetism, sediment provenance, and stratigraphy

(2015) Wentao Huang et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Dynamics of intraoceanic subduction initiation: 2. Suprasubduction zone ophiolite formation and metamorphic sole exhumation in context of absolute plate motions

(2015) Douwe J. J. van Hinsbergen et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

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

Jurassic ophiolite formation and emplacement as backstop to a subduction-accretion complex in northeast Turkey, the Refahiye ophiolite, and relation to the Balkan ophiolites

(2014) G. Topuz et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

A review of Wilson Cycle plate margins: A role for mantle plumes in continental break-up along sutures?

(2014) Susanne J.H. Buiter et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Retrodeforming the Arabia-Eurasia collision zone: Age of collision versus magnitude of continental subduction

(2013) Nadine McQuarrie et al.   GEOLOGY

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

(2013) Carmen Gaina et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

The breakup of East Gondwana: Assimilating constraints from Cretaceous ocean basins around India into a best-fit tectonic model

(2013) Ana D. Gibbons et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Greater India Basin hypothesis and a two-stage Cenozoic collision between India and Asia

(2012) D. J. J. van Hinsbergen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Viscous coupling at the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary

(2011) Tobias Höink et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Ophiolite genesis and global tectonics: Geochemical and tectonic fingerprinting of ancient oceanic lithosphere

(2011) Y. Dilek et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

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

Long wavelength convection, Poiseuille–Couette flow in the low-viscosity asthenosphere and the strength of plate margins

(2009) Tobias Höink et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Towards absolute plate motions constrained by lower-mantle slab remnants

(2009) Douwe G. van der Meer et al.   Nature Geoscience

Geology, geochemistry and 40Ar/39Ar dating of Sevan ophiolites (Lesser Caucasus, Armenia): Evidence for Jurassic Back-arc opening and hot spot event between the South Armenian Block and Eurasia

(2008) Ghazar Galoyan et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES