Earth’s crust looks solid from the surface, but it is broken into a shifting mosaic of slabs that slowly rearrange oceans and continents. Understanding how those tectonic plates first formed is one of ...

Data from scientific ocean drilling have offered important insights through which we have begun to better understand solid Earth cycles, including the interaction and evolution of Earth’s crust, ...

(a-b) Tectonic discrimination diagrams for picrite and basaltic rocks of the ophiolitic complexes from the Qilian-Qinling accretionary belt (QQAB). (c) Calculated melting conditions for primary magmas ...

Schematic illustration of the oceanic plate beneath the Ontong Java Plateau inferred from seismic wave analyses. High-frequency seismic observations indicate that the plate has a composite structure ...

Ophiolite genesis and evolution of the oceanic lithosphere : proceedings of the Ophiolite Conference, held in Muscat, Oman, 7-18 January 1990 / edited by Tj. Peters, A. Nicolas, and R.G. Coleman ...

A research group has revealed through seismic wave analysis that the oceanic plate beneath the Ontong Java Plateau—the world's largest oceanic plateau—was extensively altered by massive volcanic ...