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Ophiolites

 Table of Contents  Foundations of Ophiolite Science 1.1 Redefining the ophiolite concept 1.2 From textbook sequence to process archive 1.3 Oceanic lithosphere, upper mantle, and emplacement logic 1.4 Why ophiolites survive: preservation bias and selective exposure 1.5 Generated architecture vs modified architecture vs preserved architecture 1.6 Static classification versus evolutionary reconstruction First-Order Tectonic Framework 2.1 Subduction-unrelated assemblages 2.2 Subduction-related assemblages 2.3 Transitional and hybrid systems 2.4 Why binary models fail in natural systems 2.5 Tectonic setting as an inferred variable, not a rock label 2.6 Time-evolving plate systems and regime switching Subduction-Unrelated Ophiolites 3.1 P Type (Plume / Pressure-Release High-Flux Systems) 3.1.1 Sea-level volcanic caps 3.1.2 Pillow breccia and picritic basalt 3.1.3 Massive lava accumulations 3.1.4 Thick gabbroic intrusive sections 3.1.5 Excess melt flux and crustal overthickening 3.1...
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Rosen’s Path to Rosen Closure Functional System (RCSF)

  Rosen’s Path to Rosen Closure Functional System (RCSF) Breaking from General Systems Theory 1.1 Interaction models and their limits 1.2 Why organization is insufficient without causal entailment 1.3 Rosen’s move from open systems to closure Rosen’s Foundational Shift: Closure to Efficient Causation 2.1 The (M,R)-system 2.2 Self-production vs external functional assignment 2.3 Closure as the minimum condition for persistence Category Theory as the First Formal Home 3.1 Why Rosen needed categorical language 3.2 Cartesian closed categories and reflexive objects 3.3 Fixed points, entailment loops, and self-reference 3.4 Why category theory gives structure before dynamics From Abstract Closure to Structural Forcing 4.1 Closure as a constraint, not a metaphor 4.2 Elimination of arbitrary components 4.3 From descriptive systems theory to necessity Autopoiesis as the Embodied Subclass 5.1 Maturana–Varela and organizational closure 5.2 Boundary production and material realization 5.3 Why ...
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