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

Proposal for a continent 'Itsaqia' amalgamated at 3.66 Ga and rifted apart from 3.53 Ga: Initiation of a Wilson Cycle near the start of the rock record

(2015) A. P. Nutman et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

Temporal evolution of mantle wedge oxygen fugacity during subduction initiation

(2015) Maryjo Brounce et al.   GEOLOGY

Broad plumes rooted at the base of the Earth's mantle beneath major hotspots

(2015) Scott W. French et al.   NATURE

A Hadean to Paleoarchean geodynamo recorded by single zircon crystals

(2015) J. A. Tarduno et al.   SCIENCE

Dating the Moon-forming impact event with asteroidal meteorites

(2015) W. F. Bottke et al.   SCIENCE

Geology of the Eoarchean, >3.95Ga, Nulliak supracrustal rocks in the Saglek Block, northern Labrador, Canada: The oldest geological evidence for plate tectonics

(2015) Tsuyoshi Komiya et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Plate tectonics before 2.0 Ga: Evidence from paleomagnetism of cratons within supercontinent Nuna

(2014) R. N. Mitchell et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

The evolution of Hadean–Eoarchaean geodynamics

(2014) C. O'Neill et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Component geochronology in the polyphase ca. 3920Ma Acasta Gneiss

(2014) Stephen J. Mojzsis et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Heading down early on? Start of subduction on Earth

(2014) S. Turner et al.   GEOLOGY

Upstairs-downstairs: supercontinents and large igneous provinces, are they related?

(2014) Kent C. Condie et al.   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

Rb-Sr, Sm-Nd and Lu-Hf isotope systematics of the lunar Mg-suite: the age of the lunar crust and its relation to the time of Moon formation

(2014) R. W. Carlson et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Terrestrial aftermath of the Moon-forming impact

(2014) N. H. Sleep et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Mantle updrafts and mechanisms of oceanic volcanism

(2014) D. L. Anderson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Initiation of plate tectonics from post-magma ocean thermochemical convection

(2014) Bradford J. Foley et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Reduced, reused and recycled: Detrital zircons define a maximum age for the Eoarchean (ca. 3750–3780Ma) Nuvvuagittuq Supracrustal Belt, Québec (Canada)

(2013) Nicole L. Cates et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Diamonds in Earthʼs oldest zircons from Jack Hills conglomerate, Australia, are contamination

(2013) Larissa Dobrzhinetskaya et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Lawsonite blueschists and lawsonite eclogites as proxies for palaeo-subduction zone processes: a review

(2013) T. Tsujimori et al.   JOURNAL OF METAMORPHIC GEOLOGY

The world turns over: Hadean–Archean crust–mantle evolution

(2013) W.L. Griffin et al.   LITHOS

Measurement of geo-neutrinos from 1353 days of Borexino

(2013) G. Bellini et al.   PHYSICS LETTERS B

Diamonds and the Geology of Mantle Carbon

(2013) S. B. Shirey et al.   Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry

Continental growth and the crustal record

(2013) Chris Hawkesworth et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

A late Archean tectonic mélange in the Central Orogenic Belt, North China Craton

(2013) Junpeng Wang et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Geophysical and geochemical constraints on geoneutrino fluxes from Earth's mantle

(2012) Ondřej Šrámek et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The continental record and the generation of continental crust

(2012) P.A. Cawood et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

A free plate surface and weak oceanic crust produce single-sided subduction on Earth

(2012) F. Crameri et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Geology of an Archaean accretionary complex – The structural record of burial and return flow in the Tartoq Group of South West Greenland

(2012) Alexander F.M. Kisters et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Complex calc-alkaline volcanism recorded in Mesoarchaean supracrustal belts north of Frederikshåb Isblink, southern West Greenland: Implications for subduction zone processes in the early Earth

(2012) Kristoffer Szilas et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Isotope composition and volume of Earth's early oceans

(2012) E. C. Pope et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Expanding-contracting Earth

(2012) Taku Tsuchiya et al.   Geoscience Frontiers

Secular trends in the geologic record and the supercontinent cycle

(2011) Dwight C. Bradley   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

The building blocks of continental crust: Evidence for a major change in the tectonic setting of continental growth at the end of the Archean

(2011) Kent C. Condie et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Geoneutrinos and the energy budget of the Earth

(2011) Jean-Claude Mareschal et al.   JOURNAL OF GEODYNAMICS

Quantifying the Timing and Rate of Crustal Evolution: Global Compilation of Radiometrically Dated Detrital Zircon Grains

(2011) Peter J. Voice et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY

Implications of the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt for the Formation of Earth's Early Crust

(2011) J. O'Neil et al.   JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY

Modern-style plate subduction preserved in the Palaeoproterozoic West African craton

(2011) J. Ganne et al.   Nature Geoscience

Paleoproterozoic eclogites in the salma area, Northwestern Belomorian Mobile Belt: Composition and isotopic geochronologic characteristics of minerals and metamorphic age

(2011) S. G. Skublov et al.   PETROLOGY

Paleoproterozoic eclogites of MORB-type chemistry and three Proterozoic orogenic cycles in the Ubendian Belt (Tanzania): Evidence from monazite and zircon geochronology, and geochemistry

(2011) Nelson Boniface et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

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

(2011) S. B. Shirey et al.   SCIENCE

Constraints on Hadean geodynamics from mineral inclusions in >4Ga zircons

(2010) Michelle D. Hopkins et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Thermal history of the Earth and its petrological expression

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

Mesoarchean subduction processes: 2.87 Ga eclogites from the Kola Peninsula, Russia

(2010) M.V. Mints et al.   GEOLOGY

No climate paradox under the faint early Sun

(2010) Minik T. Rosing et al.   NATURE

The Hadean Crust: Evidence from >4 Ga Zircons

(2009) T. Mark Harrison   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Enhanced crustal geo-neutrino production near the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, Ontario, Canada

(2009) H.K.C. Perry et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Effect of plate bending on the Urey ratio and the thermal evolution of the mantle

(2009) Geoffrey F. Davies   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The Eclogite-Granulite Transition: Mafic and Intermediate Assemblages at Breaksea Sound, New Zealand

(2009) M. C. De Paoli et al.   JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY

Mineral evolution

(2008) R. M. Hazen et al.   AMERICAN MINERALOGIST

Linked magma ocean solidification and atmospheric growth for Earth and Mars

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

Earth's core formation aided by flow channelling instabilities induced by iron diapirs

(2008) Gregor J. Golabek et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Early (≥4.5 Ga) formation of terrestrial crust: Lu–Hf, δ18O, and Ti thermometry results for Hadean zircons

(2008) T. Mark Harrison et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Excess temperatures at ocean islands: Implications for mantle layering and convection

(2008) Keith Putirka   GEOLOGY

Suprasubduction zone ophiolites and Archean tectonics

(2008) Yildirim Dilek et al.   GEOLOGY

Role of oceanic plateaus in the initiation of subduction and origin of continental crust

(2008) Rajeev Nair et al.   GEOLOGY

The Grenvillian and Pan-African orogens: World's largest orogenies through geologic time, and their implications on the origin of superplume

(2008) S. Rino et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

No Water, No Cyanobacteria—No Calc-alkaline Magmas: Progressive Oxidation of the Early Oceans May Have Contributed to Modernize Island-Arc Magmatism

(2008) Roberto Oyarzun et al.   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

New views on the structure and rheology of the lithosphere

(2008) JAMES JACKSON et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Low heat flow inferred from >4 Gyr zircons suggests Hadean plate boundary interactions

(2008) Michelle Hopkins et al.   NATURE

Urey ratio and the structure and evolution of Earth's mantle

(2008) Jun Korenaga   REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS

Neodymium-142 Evidence for Hadean Mafic Crust

(2008) J. O'Neil et al.   SCIENCE

Intermittent Plate Tectonics?

(2008) P. G. Silver et al.   SCIENCE

Plate tectonics, flood basalts and the evolution of Earth’s oceans

(2008) Jun Korenaga   TERRA NOVA

Mesoproterozoic plate tectonics: A collisional model for the Grenville-aged orogenic belt in the Llano uplift, central Texas

(2007) S. Mosher et al.   GEOLOGY

The origin and compositions of Mesoarchean oceanic crust: Evidence from the 3075 Ma Ivisaartoq greenstone belt, SW Greenland

(2007) A. Polat et al.   LITHOS