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Amphibolites of the Stalemate Ridge and Shirshov Rise, Northwest Pacific: Indicators of the Geodynamic Regime of Metamorphism at the Convergent Plate Boundary
AbstractThe paper presents data on amphibolites dredged during Cruise 249 of the German R/V Sonne at three sites: one at the northwestern...
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Origin of the DUPAL anomaly in the Tethyan mantle domain and its geodynamic significance
Mantle heterogeneity has revealed systematic differences in Pb isotopic compositions between the Indian Ocean-South Atlantic mantle in the Southern...
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Mid-ocean Ridges
Mid-ocean ridges are the oceanic counterparts of continental graben structures. Both are zones of extension although mid-ocean ridges have...
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Is the Songshugou Complex, Qinling Belt, China, an Eclogite Facies Neoproterozoic Ophiolite?
Ophiolites play a key role in understanding subduction-accretion-collision processes. Herein, we discuss origin and metamorphic evolution of an...
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Geotourism in the United Arab of Emirates (UAE)
The UAE has had notable tourism growth in the few last years, especially, in Dubai city, which is considered an international iconic MICE tourism...
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Platinum Group Elements Mineralization
Platinum group element (PGE) mineralization is associated with ultramafic and mafic rocks. There are three major types of PGE mineralization in...
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Tectonic Framework of Sanjiang Tethyan Metallogenic Domain
The Sanjiang Tethyan Metallogenic Domain refers to the Hengduan Mountain Range where the Nujiang River, Lancang River and **sha River run side by...
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Compositional variations of chromian spinels from peridotites of the Spontang ophiolite complex, Ladakh, NW Himalayas, India: petrogenetic implications
The Spontang ophiolite complex exposed along the Indus Tsangpo Suture Zone (ITSZ) represents a fragment of oceanic lithosphere emplaced after the...
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Conclusion—The Future of Geotourism in the Middle East
Geotourism in the Middle East is poorly studied and there is little published data on such tourism. Toward bridging this gap in the pertinent...
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Exploration of the Oman–UAE Mountains
Despite being located along the eastern margin of Arabia where the Indian Ocean passes into the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Gulf, Oman was one of...
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Characterization of subduction initiation
Compression is required for all kinds of subduction initiations, which may cause either subsidence or uplift, depending on the ages of the oceanic...
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A new model for chromitite formation in ophiolites: Fluid immiscibility
Although the involvement of hydrous fluids has been widely invoked in formation of podiform chromitites in ophiolites, there is lack of natural...
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Comparative analysis of machine learning and analytical hierarchy analysis for artificial groundwater recharge map development
A proactive policy for tackling the global water crisis involves the application of artificial groundwater recharge (AGR). AGR site selection is a...
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Geology of the Oman–United Arab Emirates Mountains
The geological record in the Oman–UAE mountains and the interior from Precambrian to the present day can be broadly divided into seven major...
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Metamorphic Petrology of Clinopyroxene Amphibolite from the **gaze Ophiolite, Southern Tibet: P-T Constraints and Phase Equilibrium Modeling
The clinopyroxene amphibolite from the Bailang terrane is located in the central section of the Yarlung Zangbo suture zone (YZSZ), southern Tibet....
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Sharkiyah, Eastern Oman Mountains
The Sharkiyah or Eastern Oman Mountains include the all the mountains north of the Wahiba Sands that extend from the Quriat region eastwards to Ras...
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An Intra-Oceanic Subduction System Influenced by Ridge Subduction in the Diyanmiao Subduction Accretionary Complex of the Xar Moron Area, Eastern Margin of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt
This study focuses on the geology, geochemistry, Sr-Nd isotopes and their tectonic settings of three types of basalts in Diyanmiao ophiolite in the...
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Geology, mineralogy, and geochemistry of Naweoba and Bagh Cyprus-type VMS deposits of the Late Cretaceous Zhob Valley Ophiolites, Pakistan: implications for genesis
The petrography, mineralization, and geochemistry and isotope studies of sulfide ores were used to determine the genesis of the Naweoba and Bagh...
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Orange hydrogen is the new green
Maintaining global warming well below 2 °C, as stipulated in the Paris Agreement, will require a complete overhaul of the world energy system....
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Dense mineral distribution in the northwestern Arabian Sea: insights into sediment provenance and paleoclimate
The dense minerals (often called heavy minerals, density of more than 2.89 g/cm 3 ) of northwestern Arabian Sea are studied to understand their...
