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Coexisting divergent and convergent plate boundary assemblages indicate plate tectonics in the Neoarchean [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2022 This study reports coexisting Neoarchean divergent and convergent plate boundary rock assemblages, providing new evidence for the operation of plate tectonics 2.55–2.51 billion years ago; and also suggests the subduction zone was warm then.
Bo Huang +5 more
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Plate tectonics drive tropical reef biodiversity dynamics [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2016 Over a geological timescale, plate tectonics are thought to promote biodiversity, but this link remained descriptive. Here, Leprieur et al. model dynamically how plate tectonics shaped species diversification and movement of hotspots on tropical reefs ...
Fabien Leprieur +11 more
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Diagnosis of learning difficulties of plate tectonics concepts among secondary school students using: Focus group, nominal group, and questionnaire [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2023 The teaching of geology or earth sciences occupies an important place in the life and earth sciences programs of the secondary cycle in Morocco. The theory of plate tectonics is the conceptual model that allows an understanding of most of the dynamic ...
En-Nhili Larbi +3 more
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Communications Earth & Environment, 2023 Trench-parallel ridges on the Rivera plate subducting beneath W Mexico, control upper-plate tectonics and elastic structure, and act as unstable asperities, enabling shallow megathrust seismogenesis, according to seismic imaging and tomographic modeling.
Manel Prada +4 more
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Геофизический журнал, 2022 Geological Theory versus Plate Tectonics. A Comment to the paper by V.V. Gordienko «About Geological Theory»
Y. Khazan
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Indonesian Landforms and Plate Tectonics
Indonesian Journal on Geoscience, 2014 DOI: 10.17014/ijog.v5i3.103The horizontal configuration and vertical dimension of the landforms occurring in the tectonically unstable parts of Indonesia were resulted in the first place from plate tectonics.
Herman Th. Verstappen
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On the plate tectonics hypothesis
Геофизический журнал, 2013 The history of the origin and use of the hypothesis of plate tectonics on the continents, oceans and in the transition zones are analyzed. Its contradiction with basic facts of geological history and geophysical data for these regions has been shown.
V. V. Gordienko
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, 2019 Plate tectonics is the root concept underpinning our current knowledge of how Earth's internal dynamics are linked to geologic deformation at the surface. Since the discovery of plate tectonics in the 1960s, geoscientists have developed a first-order understanding of a plate system in which the Earth's surface is broken into about a dozen mostly rigid ...
Crameri, Fabio +2 more
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Earth's Earliest Phaneritic Ultramafic Rocks: Mantle Slices or Crustal Cumulates?
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2022 When plate tectonics initiated remains uncertain, partly because many signals interpreted as diagnostic of plate tectonics can be alternatively explained via hot stagnant‐lid tectonics.
Jiawei Zuo +10 more
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Driving mechanisms for plate tectonics
Geofísica Internacional, 1973 Esta generalmente aceptada la idea de que el motor de la tectónica de placas sea algún tipo de convección térmica. La fuerza impelente puede aplicarse dentro de la placa, o bien puede transmitirse a la placa desde abajo.
Donald L. Turcotte
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