Incipient ocean spreading beneath the Arabian shield

Irina M M Artemieva1,2, Haibin Yang3 and Hans Thybo1,4, (1)SinoProbe Laboratory, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research, Section of Marine Geodynamics, Kiel, Germany, (3)Australian National University, School of Earth Sciences, Canberra, Australia, (4)Istanbul Technical University, Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, Maslak, Turkey