“…These rocks have been assigned by various authors to every oceanic geodynamic setting, including mid-ocean ridge and supra-subduction zone settings (Ahmed et al, 2012;Habtoor et al, 2017). More recently, it has become a clear consensus view that all the Arabian Shield ophiolites formed in supra-subduction settings (Shahien et al, 2021), and attention has turned to resolving whether they represent back-arc or fore-arc spreading centers. There is considerable support for a fore-arc tectonic setting for all these ophiolites, based on whole-rock chemistry of serpentinite and the compositions of fresh relics of mafic minerals in the mantle sections (Abuamarah et al, 2020;Gahlan et al, 2021).…”