Continental crust formation on early Earth controlled by intrusive magmatism

Melting-induced crustal production helps plate tectonics on Earth-like planets

(2016) Diogo L. Lourenço et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

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

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

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

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

(2015) T. V. Gerya et al.   NATURE

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

(2015) E. Sizova et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Plume-induced crustal convection: 3D thermomechanical model and implications for the origin of novae and coronae on Venus

(2014) T.V. Gerya   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Spreading continents kick-started plate tectonics

(2014) Patrice F. Rey et al.   NATURE

Mantle dynamics in super-Earths: Post-perovskite rheology and self-regulation of viscosity

(2013) P.J. Tackley et al.   ICARUS

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

Archean Subduction: Fact or Fiction?

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

Influence of magmatism on mantle cooling, surface heat flow and Urey ratio

(2012) Takashi Nakagawa et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Precambrian geodynamics: Concepts and models

(2012) Taras Gerya   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Simulating the thermochemical magmatic and tectonic evolution of Venus's mantle and lithosphere: Two-dimensional models

(2012) Marina Armann et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

The viscosity of Earth’s lower mantle inferred from sinking speed of subducted lithosphere

(2012) Hana Čížková et al.   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS

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

(2012) B. Dhuime et al.   SCIENCE

Crustal thickness and support of topography on Venus

(2012) Peter B. James et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS

Two types of Archean continental crust: Plume and plate tectonics on early Earth

(2011) M. J. Van Kranendonk   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

The composite Archaean grey gneisses: Petrological significance, and evidence for a non-unique tectonic setting for Archaean crustal growth

(2010) Jean-François Moyen   LITHOS

Petrological evidence for secular cooling in mantle plumes

(2009) Claude Herzberg et al.   NATURE

Modeling mantle convection in the spherical annulus

(2008) John W. Hernlund et al.   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS

Modelling compressible mantle convection with large viscosity contrasts in a three-dimensional spherical shell using the yin-yang grid

(2008) Paul J. Tackley   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS