Preface: Special Issue on Ophiolites and Oceanic Lithosphere

With this Preface, we provide background information, a scientific overview of topics, and an annotated bibliography the 63 papers published in Journal Geophysical Research (JGR) Special Issue on “Ophiolites Oceanic Lithosphere, with Focus Samail Ophiolite,” collected online at https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1002/(ISSN)2169-9356.SAMAIL1. Topics covered include formation alteration igneous ocean crust submarine spreading centers, subduction zone mass transfer leading edge mantle wedge, tectonic emplacement evolution ophiolites, processes weathering tectonically exhumed peridotite, subsurface biosphere peridotite environment. The bibliography, form supplementary Excel spreadsheet links to each paper, is organized by topic, but can be sorted first author, order publication, specific Oman Drilling Project boreholes, other factors.