Subduction Polarity Reversal Triggered by Oceanic Plateau Accretion: Implications for Induced Subduction Initiation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Baolu Sun ◽  
Boris J. P. Kaus ◽  
Jianfeng Yang ◽  
Gang Lu ◽  
Xinxin Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Polarity Reversal ◽  
Oceanic Plateau ◽  
Subduction Initiation

Subduction initiation triggered by accretion of a Jurassic oceanic plateau along the Bangong–Nujiang Suture in central Tibet

Terra Nova ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei‐Qi Zhang ◽  
Chuan‐Zhou Liu ◽  
Tong Liu ◽  
Chang Zhang ◽  
Zhen‐Yu Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Oceanic Plateau ◽  
Subduction Initiation ◽  
Central Tibet

Life cycle of an Archean subduction zone from initiation to arc–polarity reversal: Insights from the Zunhua ophiolitic mélange, North China Craton 

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenbin Ning ◽  
Timothy Kusky ◽  
Junpeng Wang ◽  
Lu Wang ◽  
Hao Deng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Subduction Zone ◽  
North China Craton ◽  
Plate Tectonics ◽  
North China ◽  
Polarity Reversal ◽  
Iron Formation ◽  
Arc Magmatism ◽  
Subduction Initiation ◽  
Depleted Mantle

<p>Subduction initiation and arc–polarity reversal have rarely been recognized in the Archean rock record. We document Neoarchean subduction initiation, fore-arc magmatism, and an arc–polarity reversal event from the Zunhua structural belt along the eastern margin of the Central Orogenic Belt (COB) of the North China Craton (NCC). The Zunhua ophiolitic mélange within the Zunhua structural belt is a mappable unit characterized by blocks of metamorphosed harzburgite/lherzolite, podiform chromite –bearing dunite, pyroxenite, amphibolite, metabasites (basalt and diabase) with rare intermediate volcanics, chert, and tectonic lenses of banded iron formation in a strongly sheared metapelitic matrix. New geochronological and geochemical analyses of magmatic blocks within the ophiolitic mélange show that the crustal magmatic rocks were produced in a fore-arc region at 2.55–2.52 Ga from depletion of the harzburgitic–lherzolitic mantle tectonites. Chemical, petrological, and temporal links between the depleted mantle blocks, and the suite of magmatic blocks derived from partial melting and metasomatism of these depleted mantle blocks, unequivocally shows that they represent part of the same original Neoarchean fore-arc ophiolite suite. After formation and accretion in the oceanic realm, the mélange was emplaced on the continental margin of the Eastern Block between 2.52–2.50 Ga, and underwent two stages of metamorphism at ca. 2.48–2.46 Ga and 1.81 Ga. Metamorphosed intermediate–mafic volcanic blocks exhibit systematic successive geochemical variations, from MORB-like to volcanic arc-like, and the N-MORB-like meta-basalts show remarkable similarity with the subduction initiation-related Izu–Bonin–Mariana (IBM) fore-arc basalts. We suggest that the Zunhua fore-arc complex records continuous geodynamic processes from subduction initiation to arc magmatism. The Zunhua ophiolitic mélange is part of a ca. 2.5 Ga suture between an oceanic arc of the COB and Eastern Block of the NCC. After the arc–continent collision, an arc–polarity reversal event has been proposed to initiate a new eastward–dipping subduction zone on the western side of the COB. This arc–polarity reversal can be traced for more than 1,600 km along the length of the orogen, similar in scale, geometry, and duration between collision and polarity flip to the present-day arc–polarity reversal of the Sunda–Banda arc during its ongoing collision with the Australia continent. This indicates that a life cycle of an Archean subduction zone, including birth (subduction initiation), maturity (arc magmatism), death (arc-continent collision) and re-birth (arc–polarity reversal), is recorded in the Zunhua ophiolitic mélange, and the geodynamics of plate tectonics at the end of the Archean was similar to that of today.</p><p> </p>

The Influence of Polarity Reversal on Two-layered EPR and LDPE Simulating DC Cable Joints

2019 ◽  
Vol 139 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-84
Author(s):  
Tsuyoshi Tohmine ◽  
Kumiko Iguchi ◽  
Keita Sonoda ◽  
Hiroaki Miyake ◽  
Yasuhiro Tanaka ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Polarity Reversal

MANTLE DEFORMATION RECORDING SUBDUCTION INITIATION, RED HILLS, NEW ZEALAND

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Newman ◽  
◽  
Eric D. Stewart ◽  
Basil Tikoff ◽  
Brent Miller ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Subduction Initiation ◽  
Red Hills

SUBDUCTION INITIATION IN NATURE AND MODELS

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert J. Stern ◽  
◽  
Taras Gerya ◽  
Taras Gerya
Keyword(s):  
Subduction Initiation
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