Earth’s crust looks solid from the surface, but it is broken into a shifting mosaic of slabs that slowly rearrange oceans and continents. Understanding how those tectonic plates first formed is one of ...

The abundance of PT indicators should scale with the growth of the PT mosaic, which should take 100’s of millions of years to accomplish. Therefore, we expect the abundance of PT indicators to ...

Earth's surface is broken up into large plates that rub against each other, causing earthquakes, volcanoes and large mountain ranges. But how unique is our planet's geology? When you purchase through ...

Earth’s continental crust has grown and been reshaped over more than four billion years through the interplay of mantle dynamics, magmatic differentiation and crustal recycling. In its infancy, a ...

Ancient plate tectonics in the Archean period differs from modern plate tectonics in the Phanerozoic period because of the higher mantle temperatures inside the early Earth, the thicker basaltic crust ...

Schematic tectonic evolution model for the Wutai Complex during Late Archean (a) Subduction setting (~2543 Ma); shows subduction-related metasomatic agents which influenced the lithological and ...