PRECAMBRIAN PLATE TECTONICS
Introduction 1 Chapter 1 The Jormua Ophiolite: A Mafic-Ultramafic Complex from an Ancient Ocean-Continent Transition Zone 35 Chapter 2 The 173 Ga Payson Ophiolite, Arizona, USA 73 Chapter 3 Neoproterozoic Ophiolites of the Arabian-Nubian Shield 95 Chapter 4 Neoproterozoic Ophiolites in the Arabian Shield: Field Relations and Structure 129 Chapter 5 TheWadi Onib Mafic-Ultramafic Complex: A Neoproterozoic Supra-Subduction Zone Ophiolite in the Northern Red Sea Hills of the Sudan 163 Chapter 6 Tectono-Magmatic Evolution, Age and Emplacement of the Agardagh Tes-Chem Ophiolite inTuva,CentralAsia:CrustalGrowth by IslandArcAccretion 207 Chapter 7 Origin and Emplacement of Archean Ophiolites of the Central Orogenic Belt, North China Craton 223 Chapter 8 Re-Os Isotope Chemistry and Geochronology of Chromite from Mantle Podiform Chromites from the Zunhua Ophiolitic Mélange Belt, N China: Correlation with the Dongwanzi Ophiolite 275 Chapter 9 Geochemical and Petrographic Characteristics of the Central Belt of the Archean Dongwanzi Ophiolite Complex 283 Chapter 10 Microstructures of the Zunhua 250 Ga Podiform Chromite, North China Craton and Implications for the Deformation and Rheology of the Archean Oceanic Lithospheric Mantle 321 Chapter 11 Neoarchean Massive Sulfide of Wutai Mountain, North China: A Black Smoker Chimney and Mound Complex Within 250 Ga-Old Oceanic Crust 339 Chapter 12 Inferred Ophiolites in the Archean Slave Craton 363 Chapter 13 30 Ga Olondo Greenstone Belt in the Aldan Shield, E Siberia 405 Chapter 14 28 Ga Boninite-Hosting Partial Suprasubduction Zone Ophiolite Sequences from the North Karelian Greenstone Belt, NE Baltic Shield, Russia 425 Chapter 15 The Belingwe Greenstone Belt: Ensialic or Oceanic? 487