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The Evolution of the Continental Crust and the Onset of Plate Tectonics [PDF]
Frontiers in Earth Science, 2020 The Earth is the only known planet where plate tectonics is active, and different studies have concluded that plate tectonics commenced at times from the early Hadean to 700 Ma.
Peter Cawood +2 more
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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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ABEI Journal, 2021 This section brings different voices from writers who narrate their experience as readers of John Banville’s work to pay tribute to his 50 years of an inspiring writing.
Neil Hegarty
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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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The evolution of plate tectonics [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions Series A, Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences, 2018 To understand how plate tectonics became Earth's dominant mode of convection, we need to address three related problems. (i) What was Earth's tectonic regime before the present episode of plate tectonics began? (ii) Given the preceding tectonic regime, how did plate tectonics become established?
Robert Stern
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The importance of continents, oceans and plate tectonics for the evolution of complex life: implications for finding extraterrestrial civilizations [PDF]
Scientific ReportsWithin the uncertainties of involved astronomical and biological parameters, the Drake Equation typically predicts that there should be many exoplanets in our galaxy hosting active, communicative civilizations (ACCs).
Robert J. Stern, Taras V. Gerya
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Anatomy of a post-subduction collision [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsThe spatiotemporal interplay of long-lasting post-orogenic deformations make continental collision zones among Earth’s most enigmatic systems. Here, we employ three-dimensional thermomechanical modeling to decode mantle dynamics of the Arabian-Eurasian ...
Ebru Şengül Uluocak +3 more
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On the plate velocity scaling break [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThis research presents the discovery of a kink in the frequency-size distribution of plate angular velocities in different reference frames, a feature not predicted by current physical models of plate tectonics.
Davide Zaccagnino +3 more
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Geological archive of the onset of plate tectonics [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions Series A, Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences, 2018 Oliver Nebel +2 more
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Earth dynamics and the development of plate tectonics [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions Series A, Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences, 2018 , Chris J Hawkesworth
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