Geological Evidence for the Operation of Plate Tectonics throughout the Archean: Records from Archean Paleo-Plate Boundaries

Secular change in metamorphism and the onset of global plate tectonics

(2018) Michael Brown et al.   AMERICAN MINERALOGIST

Plate tectonics and continental basaltic geochemistry throughout Earth history

(2018) Brenhin Keller et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Paleoarchean bedrock lithologies across the Makhonjwa Mountains of South Africa and Swaziland linked to geochemical, magnetic and tectonic data reveal early plate tectonic genes flanking subduction margins

(2018) Maarten de Wit et al.   Geoscience Frontiers

A planet in transition: The onset of plate tectonics on Earth between 3 and 2 Ga?

(2018) Kent C. Condie   Geoscience Frontiers

Initiation of plate tectonics in the Hadean: Eclogitization triggered by the ABEL Bombardment

(2018) Shigenori Maruyama et al.   Geoscience Frontiers

Detrital zircon geochronology of sandstones of the 3.6–3.2 Ga Barberton greenstone belt: No evidence for older continental crust

(2017) Nadja Drabon et al.   GEOLOGY

Rise of Earth’s atmospheric oxygen controlled by efficient subduction of organic carbon

(2017) Megan S. Duncan et al.   Nature Geoscience

A prolonged granitoid formation in Saglek Block, Labrador: Zonal growth and crustal reworking of continental crust in the Eoarchean

(2017) Tsuyoshi Komiya et al.   Geoscience Frontiers

Insights into the tectonic evolution of the North China Craton through comparative tectonic analysis: A record of outward growth of Precambrian continents

(2016) T.M. Kusky et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Early Archaean tectonics and mantle redox recorded in Witwatersrand diamonds

(2016) Katie A. Smart et al.   Nature Geoscience

Precambrian greenstone sequences represent different ophiolite types

(2015) H. Furnes et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

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

Flat slab subduction, trench suction, and craton destruction: Comparison of the North China, Wyoming, and Brazilian cratons

(2014) Timothy M. Kusky et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Four billion years of ophiolites reveal secular trends in oceanic crust formation

(2014) Harald Furnes et al.   Geoscience Frontiers

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

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

Are Wilson Cycles preserved in Archean cratons? A comparison of the North China and Slave cratons

(2013) Timothy M. Kusky et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

Secular changes in geologic and tectonic processes

(2013) T.M. Kusky et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Recognition of ocean plate stratigraphy in accretionary orogens through Earth history: A record of 3.8billion years of sea floor spreading, subduction, and accretion

(2013) T.M. Kusky et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Archaean to Palaeoproterozoic high-grade evolution of the Belomorian eclogite province in the Gridino area, Fennoscandian Shield: Geochronological evidence

(2013) Ksenia A. Dokukina et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Orogen styles in the East African Orogen: A review of the Neoproterozoic to Cambrian tectonic evolution

(2013) H. Fritz et al.   JOURNAL OF AFRICAN EARTH SCIENCES

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

(2013) Junpeng Wang et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Archean Subduction: Fact or Fiction?

(2012) Jeroen van Hunen et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Growth of Archean continental crust in oceanic island arcs

(2012) Ali Polat   GEOLOGY

Neoarchean suprasubduction zone arc magmatism in southern India: Geochemistry, zircon U-Pb geochronology and Hf isotopes of the Sittampundi Anorthosite Complex

(2012) M. Ram Mohan et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Review of the Pilbara Craton and Fortescue Basin, Western Australia: Crustal evolution providing environments for early life

(2012) ARTHUR HUGH HICKMAN   ISLAND ARC

The neoarchean ophiolite in the North China craton: Early precambrian plate tectonics and scientific debate

(2012) Timothy M. Kusky et al.   Journal of Earth Science

Hafnium isotope evidence for a transition in the dynamics of continental growth 3.2 Gyr ago

(2012) T. Næraa et al.   NATURE

A Change in the Geodynamics of Continental Growth 3 Billion Years Ago

(2012) B. Dhuime et al.   SCIENCE

Ophiolite genesis and global tectonics: Geochemical and tectonic fingerprinting of ancient oceanic lithosphere

(2011) Y. Dilek et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Geophysical and geological tests of tectonic models of the North China Craton

(2011) Timothy M. Kusky   GONDWANA RESEARCH

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

(2011) J. Ganne et al.   Nature Geoscience

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

(2011) S. B. Shirey et al.   SCIENCE

Application of the modern ophiolite concept with special reference to Precambrian ophiolites

(2011) Timothy M. Kusky et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

Mappable features of mélanges derived from Ocean Plate Stratigraphy in the Jurassic accretionary complexes of Mino and Chichibu terranes in Southwest Japan

(2011) Koji Wakita   TECTONOPHYSICS

Coupled evolution of Archean continental crust and subcontinental lithospheric mantle

(2010) Hugh Rollinson   GEOLOGY

Australian island arcs through time: Geodynamic implications for the Archean and Proterozoic

(2010) R.J. Korsch et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Origin and emplacement of Archean ophiolites of the central orogenic belt, North China craton

(2010) Timothy M. Kusky et al.   Journal of Earth Science

Highly alkaline, high-temperature hydrothermal fluids in the early Archean ocean

(2010) Takazo Shibuya et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

The Hadean Crust: Evidence from >4 Ga Zircons

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

Imbricated ocean-plate stratigraphy and U-Pb zircon ages from tuff beds in cherts in the Ballantrae complex, SW Scotland

(2009) Y. Sawaki et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Retrogressed eclogite (20kbar, 1020°C) from the Neoproterozoic Palghat–Cauvery suture zone, southern India

(2009) K. Sajeev et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Arc-generated blocks with crustal sections in the North Atlantic craton of West Greenland: Crustal growth in the Archean with modern analogues

(2008) Brian F. Windley et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Continental mantle signature of Bushveld magmas and coeval diamonds

(2008) Stephen H. Richardson et al.   NATURE