The enigmatic geodynamic processes involved in the India-Asia collision shape our understanding of uplift and deformation Tibetan Plateau subsequent changes land-sea distribution pattern, monsoon-arid environments biotic evolution Central-Eastern Asia. However, current models dealing with history exhibit significant discrepancies how, when where exactly India Asia occurred. Recently, we propose...

Continental break-up is an ingredient of plate tectonics and the Wilson cycle. During evolution Tethyan Realm since Paleozoic, a series ribbon-like (micro-)continents are split from Gondwana drifted northwards to Eurasian continent. The initial opening Neo-Tethys Ocean follows typical continental marginal Cimmeria Gondwana, which generally considered be driven by subduction Paleo-Tethyan plate....

The presence of gigantic apex predators in the eastern Panthalassic and western Tethyan oceans suggests that complex ecosystems in the sea had become re-established in these regions at least by the early Middle Triassic, after the Permian-Triassic mass extinction (PTME). However, it is not clear whether oceanic ecosystem recovery from the PTME was globally synchronous because of the apparent la...

the dehno granite massive is located in the east dehno village and southern khomein city and within themetamorphic sanandaj–sirjan zone. the composition of these rocks include: granodiorite, quartzdiorite(tonalite), monzogranite and leucogranite. quartz, alkali feldspar, plagioclase, biotite, andalusite, hornblendemuscovite, tourmaline, zircon and apatite are examples of the existing major and ...

The co-existence of Cretaceous adakitic and A-type granitoids in southern Tibet can offer fundamental constraints on subduction the Neo-Tethyan oceanic plate associated crustal growth processes, if their petrogenetic relationships are understood. Here, we report whole-rock geochemistry, zircon U-Pb geochronology, situ Hf isotopes trace elements from Chanang intrusive suite, including Zeyu Cuoji...

Mantle-melt evolution processes in the earliest stage of subduction initiation (SI) are still ambiguous. Here, we report systematic petrogeochemical and physical records SI demonstrated by Gomsiqe massif, Mirdita ophiolite. The ultramafic body consists basal lherzolites, upper harzburgites containing lentoid dunites disseminated chromitites, displaying transition petrological (Cr# spinels range...