The occurrence of coesite in metamorphic rocks of supracrustal origin demon-strates that the low-density continental crust was subducted to subarc depths for ultrahigh-pressure(UHP)metamorphism[1,2].Thus,the finding o...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(42225403);the Strategic Priority Research Program(B)of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDB42000000)and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.
In the framework of plate tectonics,sub-duction initiation(SI)indicates the birth of a plate convergent boundary,which is a key point of plate tectonics and Wil-son’s cycle;however,its dynamic pro-cess is not well co...
supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(2018YFA0702701);the Strategic Priority Research Program(B)of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDB41000000);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(42230304,42073003 and 92055209)。
Subduction is an important process for transferring materials from the surface into the deep mantle.During subduction,recycled carbon can be released from the subducting slab to the mantle wedge through various decarb...
supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2019YFA0708501);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(42172060 and 41702052)。
Methane(CH_(4))is a critical but overlooked component in the study of the deep carbon cycle.Abiotic CH_(4)produced by serpentinization of ultramafic rocks has received extensive attention,but its formation and flux in...
supported by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research Vici grant 865.17.001。
The India-Asia collision zone is the archetype to calibrate geological responses to continent-continent collision,but hosts a paradox:there is no orogen-wide geological record of oceanic subduction after initial colli...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41730214);the National Key R&D Program of China (2019YFA0708404)。
The lighter magnesium(Mg) isotopic signatures observed in intraplate basalts are commonly thought to result from deep carbonate recycling, provided that the sharp difference in Mg isotopic composition between surface ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China as a part of the ‘South China Sea Deep’ Project(91128000)
The South China Sea,as‘a non-volcanic passive margin basin’in the Pacific,has often been considered as a small-scale analogue of the Atlantic.The recent ocean drilling in the northern South China Sea margin found,ho...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41890813,91628301,U1606401,41976066,91858207 and 41706056);the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Y4SL021001,QYZDY-SSW-DQC005 and 133244KYSB20180029);the Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory(Guangzhou,GML2019ZD0205);the National Key R&D Program of China(2018YFC0309800 and 2018YFC0310100);the State Oceanic Administration(GASI-GEOGE-02);China Ocean Mineral Resources R&D Association(DY135-S2–1-04)
The evolution of the South China Sea(SCS)is directly linked to the complex subduction systems of the surrounding Pacific,Philippine Sea and Indo-Australian Plates(Fig.1a).Major advances in the last several years are p...
What would you put on your list of the great scientific revolutions of the twentieth century?Genetics?General relativity?Something to do with quantum mechanics,perhaps?One discovery that must be on that list is the th...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41590620);the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDB18000000)
The Earth's deep interior is a hidden water reservoir on a par with the hydrosphere that is crucial for keeping the Earth as a habitable planet. In particular, nominally anhydrous minerals(NAMs) in the silicate Earth ...