We welcome Zhang et al.’s comment on our recent paper dealing with the significance of the first geochemical and geochronological analyses of deep drill-core samples collected from the basement of the central Tarim basin (Guo et al., 2005). In their comments, Zhang et al. raised three questions with regard to our paper (1) the compatibility of our model with regional geology, (2) our interpreta...

Seismic tomography models of the three-dimensional upper mantle velocity structure of the Mediterranean-Carpathian region provide a better understanding of the lithospheric processes governing its geodynamical evolution. Slab detachment, in particular lateral migration of this process along the plate boundary, is a key element in the lithospheric dynamics of the region during the last 20 to 30 ...

The geology and magmatism of the northern Mariana Trough (NMT) represent a type example for development back-arc basin (BAB). It is mature spreading center in south propagating northward via rifting arc rear lithosphere response to trench retreat overriding plate extension space time. thus essential fully characterize its tectonomagmatic processes that are potentially global significance. For t...

Rocks exposed west of the Coast Plutonic Complex in southern southeast Alaska form an imbricate thrust belt that overprints the tectonic boundary between two of the largest allochthonous crustal fragments in the North American Cordillera, the Insular and Intermontane composite terranes. In the Alexander terrane (Insular composite terrane), lower Paleozoic metavolcanic and metasedimentary rocks ...

The Neotethyan subduction and collision with the Asian, Indian, Australian plates is evidenced by a giant Andean-type arc system remarkable igneous belt along southwestern Eurasian margin. However, southward extent, cause, of poorly understood. Here, zircon U-Pb dating whole-rock geochemical study two groups Eocene (50−48 Ma) mafic intrusions from Tangse, North Sumatra, helps to unravel story. ...

Integration of data from field. geochemistry, and radiometric age invcstigations of the active Banda arc-Australia collision zonc (Banda orogen) and· the Jurassic Brooks Range ophiolite provide ncw constraints for the origin and emplacement of Oman-type ophiolites. These ophiolites arc characterized by ultramafic residuals and mafic products that arc chemically modified by "anous dcgrees of pan...

Abstract The southeastern Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB) records the assembly process between several micro-continental blocks and North China Craton (NCC), with consumption of Paleo-Asian Ocean (PAO), but whether S-wards subduction PAO beneath northern NCC was ongoing during Carboniferous–Permian time is still being debated. A key issue to resolve this controversy Carboniferous magmatism i...

In northwestern Iran, magmatic activity occurred during three main intervals: The Cretaceous, Eocene, and Miocene-Quaternary. first two phases of are more consistent with arc-type magmatism on an active continental margin; whereas the last phase, which has calc-alkaline alkaline affinities, shows similarity to postcollisional magmatism. Magmatic belts mostly situated in northern eastern parts O...