Did the transition to plate tectonics cause Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth?

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

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

A full-plate global reconstruction of the Neoproterozoic

(2017) Andrew S. Merdith et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Tectonic controls on the long-term carbon isotope mass balance

(2017) Graham A. Shields et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

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

Continental flood basalt weathering as a trigger for Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth

(2016) Grant M. Cox et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Kimberlites and the start of plate tectonics

(2016) R.J. Stern et al.   GEOLOGY

Kimberlites and the start of plate tectonics: REPLY

(2016) R.J. Stern et al.   GEOLOGY

Evidence for ca. 560Ma Ediacaran glaciation in the Kahar Formation, central Alborz Mountains, northern Iran

(2016) Najmeh Etemad-Saeed et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Evolution of the global phosphorus cycle

(2016) Christopher T. Reinhard et al.   NATURE

Snowball Earth ocean chemistry driven by extensive ridge volcanism during Rodinia breakup

(2016) T. M. Gernon et al.   Nature Geoscience

Continental arc volcanism as the principal driver of icehouse-greenhouse variability

(2016) N. R. McKenzie et al.   SCIENCE

Is plate tectonics needed to evolve technological species on exoplanets?

(2016) Robert J. Stern   Geoscience Frontiers

Did phosphorus derived from the weathering of large igneous provinces fertilize the Neoproterozoic ocean?

(2015) Forrest Horton   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

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

(2015) T. V. Gerya et al.   NATURE

Earth’s middle age

(2014) Peter A. Cawood et al.   GEOLOGY

The rise of oxygen in Earth’s early ocean and atmosphere

(2014) Timothy W. Lyons et al.   NATURE

The elements of marine life

(2014) Noah J. Planavsky   Nature Geoscience

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

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

Plate tectonic gemstones

(2013) R. J. Stern et al.   GEOLOGY

Large Igneous Provinces and supercontinents: Toward completing the plate tectonic revolution

(2013) Richard E. Ernst et al.   LITHOS

Precambrian supercontinents, glaciations, atmospheric oxygenation, metazoan evolution and an impact that may have changed the second half of Earth history

(2012) Grant M. Young   Geoscience Frontiers

Biologically induced initiation of Neoproterozoic snowball-Earth events

(2011) E. Tziperman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Paired metamorphic belts revisited

(2009) Michael Brown   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Proterozoic (pre-Ediacaran) glaciation and the high obliquity, low-latitude ice, strong seasonality (HOLIST) hypothesis: Principles and tests

(2008) George E. Williams   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Neoproterozoic crustal growth: The solid Earth system during a critical episode of Earth history

(2007) Robert J. Stern   GONDWANA RESEARCH