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

Hydrothermal ore deposits in collisional orogens

(2019) Yongfei Zheng et al.   Science Bulletin

Reconstruction of subduction and back-arc spreading in the NW Pacific and Aleutian Basin: clues to causes of Cretaceous and Eocene plate reorganizations

(2019) Bram Vaes et al.   TECTONICS

Southward propagation of Nazca subduction along the Andes

(2019) Yi-Wei Chen et al.   NATURE

Decoding Earth’s rhythms: Modulation of supercontinent cycles by longer superocean episodes

(2019) Z.X. Li et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Subduction Orogeny and the Late Cenozoic Evolution of the Mediterranean Arcs

(2018) Leigh Royden et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

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

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

Puzzling features of western Mediterranean tectonics explained by slab dragging

(2018) Wim Spakman et al.   Nature Geoscience

Mesozoic mafic magmatism in North China: Implications for thinning and destruction of cratonic lithosphere

(2018) Yongfei Zheng et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

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

The dominant driving force for supercontinent breakup: Plume push or subduction retreat?

(2018) Nan Zhang et al.   Geoscience Frontiers

Geology of the onshore Makran accretionary wedge: Synthesis and tectonic interpretation

(2018) Jean-Pierre Burg   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

The timing of continental collision between Indian and Asia

(2018) Yongfei Zheng et al.   Science Bulletin

Continental basalts record the crust-mantle interaction in oceanic subduction channel: A geochemical case study from eastern China

(2017) Zheng Xu et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Introduction to the structures and processes of subduction zones

(2017) Yong-Fei Zheng et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Regional metamorphism at extreme conditions: Implications for orogeny at convergent plate margins

(2017) Yong-Fei Zheng et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Early Carboniferous subduction-zone metamorphism preserved within the Palaeo-Tethyan Rasht ophiolites (western Alborz, Iran)

(2017) Federico Rossetti et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

On the deep-mantle origin of the Deccan Traps

(2017) Petar Glišović et al.   SCIENCE

Raising the Gangdese Mountains in southern Tibet

(2017) Di-Cheng Zhu et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Subduction and accretionary tectonics of the East Kunlun orogen, western segment of the Central China Orogenic System

(2017) Yunpeng Dong et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

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

The timing of India-Asia collision onset – Facts, theories, controversies

(2016) Xiumian Hu et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Formation of a future supercontinent through plate motion–driven flow coupled with mantle downwelling flow

(2016) Masaki Yoshida   GEOLOGY

Tethyan suturing in Southeast Asia: Zircon U-Pb and Hf-O isotopic constraints from Myanmar ophiolites

(2016) Chuan-Zhou Liu et al.   GEOLOGY

Oblique convergence during the Cimmerian collision: Evidence from the Triassic Aghdarband Basin, NE Iran

(2016) Andrea Zanchi et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Global dynamic topography observations reveal limited influence of large-scale mantle flow

(2016) M. J. Hoggard et al.   Nature Geoscience

Late Paleozoic Woniusi basaltic province from Sibumasu terrane: Implications for the breakup of eastern Gondwana’s northern margin

(2015) Shi-Yong Liao et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Depositional environment and provenance of the upper Permian–Lower Triassic Tianquanshan Formation, northern Tibet: implications for the Palaeozoic evolution of the Southern Qiangtang, Lhasa, and Himalayan terranes in the Tibetan Plateau

(2015) Jian-Jun Fan et al.   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

Broad plumes rooted at the base of the Earth's mantle beneath major hotspots

(2015) Scott W. French et al.   NATURE

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

(2015) T. V. Gerya et al.   NATURE

Whole-mantle radially anisotropic shear velocity structure from spectral-element waveform tomography

(2014) S. W. French et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

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

Deep mantle structure as a reference frame for movements in and on the Earth

(2014) T. H. Torsvik et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mantle dynamics in the Mediterranean

(2014) Claudio Faccenna et al.   REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS

Zircon U–Pb age constraints from Iran on the magmatic evolution related to Neotethyan subduction and Zagros orogeny

(2013) Han-Yi Chiu et al.   LITHOS

A Precambrian microcontinent in the Indian Ocean

(2013) Trond H. Torsvik et al.   Nature Geoscience

The formation of Pangea

(2013) G.M. Stampfli et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Permian hornblende gabbros in the Chinese Altai from a subduction-related hydrous parent magma, not from the Tarim mantle plume

(2013) Bo Wan et al.   Lithosphere

Metamorphic chemical geodynamics in continental subduction zones

(2012) Yong-Fei Zheng   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Origin and Tectonic Implication of Ophiolite and Eclogite in the Song Ma Suture Zone between the South China and Indochina Blocks

(2012) R. Y. ZHANG et al.   JOURNAL OF METAMORPHIC GEOLOGY

SHRIMP zircon U–Pb geochronology, geochemistry and Sr–Nd–Hf isotopic compositions of a mafic dyke swarm in the Qiangtang terrane, northern Tibet and geodynamic implications

(2012) Qing-guo Zhai et al.   LITHOS

Mantle conveyor beneath the Tethyan collisional belt

(2011) Thorsten W. Becker et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

No link between the Panjal Traps (Kashmir) and the Late Permian mass extinctions

(2011) J. G. Shellnutt et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Fluid-assisted granulite metamorphism: A continental journey

(2011) Jacques L.R. Touret et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Late Palaeozoic–Cenozoic tectonic development of Greece and Albania in the context of alternative reconstructions of Tethys in the Eastern Mediterranean region

(2011) Alastair H.F. Robertson   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

The Lhasa Terrane: Record of a microcontinent and its histories of drift and growth

(2010) Di-Cheng Zhu et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

New insight into a subduction-related orogen: A reappraisal of the geotectonic framework and evolution of the Japanese Islands

(2010) Yukio Isozaki et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

India-Asia collision and the Cenozoic slowdown of the Indian plate: Implications for the forces driving plate motions

(2010) Alex Copley et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Diamonds sampled by plumes from the core–mantle boundary

(2010) Trond H. Torsvik et al.   NATURE

India–Asia convergence driven by the subduction of the Greater Indian continent

(2010) F. A. Capitanio et al.   Nature Geoscience

Comparisons of the kinematics and deep structures of the Zagros and Himalaya and of the Iranian and Tibetan plateaus and geodynamic implications

(2010) Denis Hatzfeld et al.   REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS

Zircon U–Pb geochronology and Hf isotopic constraints on petrogenesis of the Gangdese batholith, southern Tibet

(2009) Wei-Qiang Ji et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Late Cretaceous charnockite with adakitic affinities from the Gangdese batholith, southeastern Tibet: Evidence for Neo-Tethyan mid-ocean ridge subduction?

(2009) Zeming Zhang et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Global electromagnetic induction constraints on transition-zone water content variations

(2009) Anna Kelbert et al.   NATURE

Cenozoic tectonic evolution of Asia: A preliminary synthesis

(2009) An Yin   TECTONOPHYSICS

Age, spreading rates, and spreading asymmetry of the world's ocean crust

(2008) R. Dietmar Müller et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Rapid change in drift of the Australian plate records collision with Ontong Java plateau

(2008) Kurt M. Knesel et al.   NATURE

Self-subduction of the Pangaean global plate

(2008) Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso et al.   Nature Geoscience

Equatorial convergence of India and early Cenozoic climate trends

(2008) D. V. Kent et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global plate motion frames: Toward a unified model

(2008) Trond H. Torsvik et al.   REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS

Reconstructing Farallon Plate Subduction Beneath North America Back to the Late Cretaceous

(2008) L. Liu et al.   SCIENCE

Assembly, configuration, and break-up history of Rodinia: A synthesis

(2007) Z.X. Li et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH