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Vol. 87 Supp. ACTA GEOLOGICA SINICA (English Edition) http://www.geojournals.cn/dzxben/ch/index.aspx http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ags June 2013 Tim KUSKY, Windley Brian, Safonova Inna, Wakita Koji, Wakabayashi John, Polat Ali and Santosh Madha, 2013. Recognition of Ocean Plate Stratigraphy in Accretionary Orogens Through Earth History: A Record of 3.8 Billion Years of Sea Floor Spreading, Subduction, and Accretion. Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition), 87(supp.): 307. Recognition of Ocean Plate Stratigraphy in Accretionary Orogens Through Earth History: A Record of 3.8 Billion Years of Sea Floor Spreading, Subduction, and Accretion Tim KUSKY1,*, Windley Brian2, Safonova Inna3, Wakita Koji4, Wakabayashi John5, Polat Ali6 and Santosh Madha7 1 China University of Geosciences Wuhan 2 University of Leicester, UK 3 Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, SB RAS 4 Geological Survey of Japan 5 California State University, Fresno arc basalts, oceanic plateau basalts, ocean island basalts, and boninites, with extremely rare komatiites. This demonstrates that sea-floor spreading, lateral movement of oceanic plates with accompanying sedimentation over the oceanic substratum, and accretion at convergent margins has been a major Earth process since at least 3.8 Ga ago. There have been some secular changes in the rock types in OPS, such as changes in carbonates and radiolarian cherts whose sources were in the biota in existence in Phanerozoic times but absent in the Precambrian, but overall, there have been few changes in the style of OPS accretion with time. Komatiites and banded iron formations occur predominantly in Archean orogenic belts, reflecting higher mantle temperatures and less oxic seawater composition, respectively, before 2.5 Ga. This is clear documentation that plate tectonics, including the lateral movement of oceanic lithosphere, has been a major heat loss mechanism on Earth since the early Precambrian. Ocean plate stratigraphy (OPS) is a term used to describe the sequence of sedimentary and volcanic rocks deposited on oceanic crust substratum from the time it forms at a spreading center, to the time it is incorporated into an accretionary prism at a convergent margin. In this study, we review the major geological characteristics of relict Cenozoic to early Archean oceanic crust and OPS persevered in Alaska, Japan, California (Franciscan Complex), Central Asia, British Isles, Canada (Slave Province), Australia (Pilbara craton), and Greenland (Isua and Ivisaartoq belts). An assessment of OPS in accretionary orogens spanning the duration of Earth’s rock record shows remarkable similarities between OPS of all ages in terms of structural style, major rock components, sequence of accretion, and trace element geochemical signatures. Volcanic rocks preserved in the orogenic belts are characterized predominantly by oceanic island arc basalts, island arc picrites, mid-ocean ridge basalts, back- * Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected] 307