IUGS Episodes Special Issue on “Ophiolites: Mantle Sources, Melt Evolution and Emplacement Mechanisms.”

The issue, guest edited by IUGS Vice-President Yildirim Dilek, focuses on ophiolites, a dynamic and fascinating area of current research that is illuminating: structural and geochemical makeup of ancient oceanic lithosphere; fluid–rock interactions and biochemical cycles in crustal and mantle evolution; and the nature and distribution of former plate boundaries. This journal issue is not only for ophiolite specialists. It will be of interest to all geoscientists who are working to understand the detailed dynamics of the oceanic crust and orogenic belts.

Contents of the Episodes Special Issue (December 2015, Vol. 38. No. 4) http://www.episodes.org/index.php/epi/issue/view/6409 “Ophiolites: Mantle Sources, Melt Evolution and Emplacement Mechanisms.”

Guest Editor: Yildirim Dilek

Preface

Ophiolites: Mantle Sources, Melt Evolution and Emplacement Mechanisms [link]

Y. Dilek

Articles

Continental Margin Ophiolites of Neotethys: Remnants of Ancient Ocean-Continent Transition Zone (OCTZ) Lithosphere and their Geochemistry, Mantle Sources and Melt Evolution Patterns

E. Saccani, Y. Dilek, M. Marroni & L. Pandolfi

OIB- and P-Type Ophiolites Along the Yarlung-Zangbo Suture Zone (YZSZ), Southern Tibet: Poly-Phase Melt History and Mantle Sources of the Neotethyan Oceanic Lithosphere

G. Yang & Y. Dilek

Pre-Alpine Extensional Tectonics of a Peridotite-Localized Oceanic Core Complex in the Late Jurassic, High-Pressure Monviso ophiolite (western Alps)

G. Balestro, A. Festa, Y. Dilek & P. Tartarotti

The Taitao Ophiolite-Granite Complex, Chile: Emplacement of Ridge-Trench Intersection Oceanic Lithosphere on Land and Origin of Calc-Alkaline I-Type Granites

K.-C. Shin, R. Anma, T. Nakano, Y. Orihashi & S.-I. Ike

Structure and Petrology of the Nagaland-Manipur Hill Ophiolite Melange Zone, NE India: A Fossil Tethyan Subduction Channel at the India-Burma Plate Boundary

Fareeduddin & Y. Dilek

Variscan Ophiolites in NW Iberia: Tracking Lost Paleozoic Oceans and the Assembly of Pangea

R. Arenas & S. Sanchez Martinez

Al- and Cr-Rich Chromitites from the Eastern Havana-Matanzas Ophiolites (western Cuba)

A. I. Llanes Castro, J. A. Proenza, F. Zaccarini, G. Garuti & M. S. C. Pacheco Sarlabous

Diamond-Bearing Ophiolites and their Geological Occurrence

J. Yang, P. T. Robinson & Y. Dilek

Source: IUGS E-Bulletin No. 115 - December 2015

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