The subduction-dominant Archean oceanic crust (ophiolites) was characterized by accretionary cycle plate tectonics, whereas for those of Proterozoic and Phanerozoic ages, a combination of both ...

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Akiho Miyashiro, Classification, Characteristics, and Origin of Ophiolites, The Journal of Geology, Vol. 83, No. 2 (Mar., 1975), pp. 249-281 ...

Site DescriptionIn the Oman ophiolite, water is stored throughout several hundred meters of fractured mantle rock that is actively undergoing low-temperature hydration and carbonation at temperatures ...

Ophiolites—sections of oceanic crust and upper mantle thrust onto continental crust—are globally recognized as prime sources of geologic hydrogen, often referred to as “white hydrogen” or “gold ...