The evolution of plate tectonics

Secular change in metamorphism and the onset of global plate tectonics

(2018) Michael Brown et al.   AMERICAN MINERALOGIST

Two distinct origins for Archean greenstone belts

(2018) R. Hugh Smithies et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Geodynamics of kimberlites on a cooling Earth: Clues to plate tectonic evolution and deep volatile cycles

(2018) Sebastian Tappe et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Subduction initiation dynamics along a transform fault control trench curvature and ophiolite ages

(2018) Xin Zhou et al.   GEOLOGY

Structure of oceanic crust and serpentinization at subduction trenches

(2018) Ingo Grevemeyer et al.   Geosphere

Archaean tectonic systems: A view from igneous rocks

(2018) Jean-François Moyen et al.   LITHOS

Did the transition to plate tectonics cause Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth?

(2018) Robert J. Stern et al.   TERRA NOVA

Lid tectonics – Preface

(2018) Craig O'Neill et al.   Geoscience Frontiers

Stagnant lid tectonics: Perspectives from silicate planets, dwarf planets, large moons, and large asteroids

(2018) Robert J. Stern et al.   Geoscience Frontiers

Do cratons preserve evidence of stagnant lid tectonics?

(2018) Derek Wyman   Geoscience Frontiers

Zircon age peaks: Production or preservation of continental crust?

(2017) Kent C. Condie et al.   Geosphere

There were no large volumes of felsic continental crust in the early Earth

(2017) Hugh Rollinson   Geosphere

Continental crust formation on early Earth controlled by intrusive magmatism

(2017) A. B. Rozel et al.   NATURE

Emergence of silicic continents as the lower crust peels off on a hot plate-tectonic Earth

(2017) Priyadarshi Chowdhury et al.   Nature Geoscience

Impact-driven subduction on the Hadean Earth

(2017) C. O’Neill et al.   Nature Geoscience

Subduction initiation in nature and models: A review

(2017) Robert J. Stern et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

The Hadean-Archaean transition at 4 Ga: From magma trapping in the mantle to volcanic resurfacing of the Earth

(2017) Anne Nédélec et al.   TERRA NOVA

Pacific plate motion change caused the Hawaiian-Emperor Bend

(2017) Trond H. Torsvik et al.   Nature Communications

The timetable of evolution

(2017) Andrew H. Knoll et al.   Science Advances

Plate-tectonic evolution of the Earth: bottom-up and top-down mantle circulation

(2016) W.G. Ernst et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

Macroscopic strength of oceanic lithosphere revealed by ubiquitous fracture-zone instabilities

(2016) Cécilia Cadio et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Kimberlites and the start of plate tectonics

(2016) R.J. Stern et al.   GEOLOGY

Early Earth plume-lid tectonics: A high-resolution 3D numerical modelling approach

(2016) R. Fischer et al.   JOURNAL OF GEODYNAMICS

Archean upper crust transition from mafic to felsic marks the onset of plate tectonics

(2016) M. Tang et al.   SCIENCE

A great thermal divergence in the mantle beginning 2.5 Ga: Geochemical constraints from greenstone basalts and komatiites

(2016) Kent C. Condie et al.   Geoscience Frontiers

Evolution of young oceanic lithosphere and the meaning of seafloor subsidence rate

(2016) Tomoko Korenaga et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Plate tectonics on the Earth triggered by plume-induced subduction initiation

(2015) T. V. Gerya et al.   NATURE

A record of spontaneous subduction initiation in the Izu–Bonin–Mariana arc

(2015) Richard J. Arculus et al.   Nature Geoscience

Generation of felsic crust in the Archean: A geodynamic modeling perspective

(2015) E. Sizova et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Melting systematics in mid-ocean ridge basalts: Application of a plagioclase-spinel melting model to global variations in major element chemistry and crustal thickness

(2015) Mark D. Behn et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

A Neoproterozoic Transition in the Marine Nitrogen Cycle

(2014) Patricia Sánchez-Baracaldo et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Earth’s middle age

(2014) Peter A. Cawood et al.   GEOLOGY

Plate tectonic influences on Neoproterozoic–early Paleozoic climate and animal evolution

(2014) N. Ryan McKenzie et al.   GEOLOGY

Plate tectonics, damage and inheritance

(2014) David Bercovici et al.   NATURE

Initiation and Evolution of Plate Tectonics on Earth: Theories and Observations

(2013) Jun Korenaga   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Heat-pipe Earth

(2013) William B. Moore et al.   NATURE

Delamination and recycling of Archaean crust caused by gravitational instabilities

(2013) Tim E. Johnson et al.   Nature Geoscience

Global continental and ocean basin reconstructions since 200Ma

(2012) M. Seton et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Short-term episodicity of Archaean plate tectonics

(2012) Jean-François Moyen et al.   GEOLOGY

Archean gravity-driven tectonics on hot and flooded continents: Controls on long-lived mineralised hydrothermal systems away from continental margins

(2012) N. Thébaud et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

The Cambrian Conundrum: Early Divergence and Later Ecological Success in the Early History of Animals

(2011) D. H. Erwin et al.   SCIENCE

Start of the Wilson Cycle at 3 Ga Shown by Diamonds from Subcontinental Mantle

(2011) S. B. Shirey et al.   SCIENCE

Thermal history of the Earth and its petrological expression

(2010) Claude Herzberg et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Episodic zircon age spectra of orogenic granitoids: The supercontinent connection and continental growth

(2010) Kent C. Condie et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Evidence and implications for a widespread magmatic shutdown for 250 My on Earth

(2009) Kent C. Condie et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Paired metamorphic belts revisited

(2009) Michael Brown   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Yin and yang of continental crust creation and destruction by plate tectonic processes

(2009) Robert J. Stern et al.   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

Linked magma ocean solidification and atmospheric growth for Earth and Mars

(2008) L.T. Elkins-Tanton   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Impact of differential zircon fertility of granitoid basement rocks in North America on age populations of detrital zircons and implications for granite petrogenesis

(2008) William R. Dickinson   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Why is terrestrial subduction one-sided?

(2007) Taras V. Gerya et al.   GEOLOGY