• DOI:10.1144/GSL.SP.2003.218.01.22
Corpus ID: 131588528

What constitutes ‘emplacement’ of an ophiolite?: Mechanisms and relationship to subduction initiation and formation of metamorphic soles

@article{Wakabayashi2003WhatC,
  title={What constitutes ‘emplacement’ of an ophiolite?: Mechanisms and relationship to subduction initiation and formation of metamorphic soles},
  author={J. Wakabayashi and Y. Dilek},
  journal={Geological Society, London, Special Publications},
  year={2003},
  volume={218},
  pages={427 - 447}
}

J. Wakabayashi, Y. Dilek

Published 2003

Geology

Geological Society, London, Special Publications

Abstract Ophiolites have long been recognized as on-land fragments of fossil oceanic lithosphere, which becomes an ophiolite when incorporated into continental margins through a complex process known as ‘emplacement’. A fundamental problem of ophiolite emplacement is how dense oceanic crust becomes emplaced over less dense material(s) of continental margins or subduction-accretion systems. Subduction of less dense material beneath a future ophiolite is necessary to overcome the adverse density… CONTINUE READING

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