The Earth’s lithosphere is continuously reshaped by the relative motions of rigid and deformable tectonic plates driven by mantle convection, slab pull and ridge push forces. Over hundreds of millions ...

On present-day Earth, plate subduction continuously modifies the chemical composition of the convecting mantle, and various mantle sources linked to these processes have been widely studied. However, ...

Rifted margins mark the transition from continental to oceanic realms and preserve a rich archive of lithospheric deformation, magmatism and sedimentary processes. Initiated by plate divergence, ...

This groundbreaking research offers a comprehensive reconstruction of Earth’s tectonic evolution from 1.8 Ga to the present, bridging critical gaps in pre-Pangean plate dynamics. By merging three ...

An enduring question in geology is when Earth’s tectonic plates began pushing and pulling in a process that helped the planet evolve and shaped its continents into the ones that exist today. Some ...

The plate tectonics theory established in the 20th century has been successful in interpreting many geological phenomena, processes, and events that have occurred in the Phanerozoic. However, the ...

Schematic tectonic evolution model for the Wutai Complex during Late Archean (a) Subduction setting (~2543 Ma); shows subduction-related metasomatic agents which influenced the lithological and ...

An exceptionally well-preserved skull from a fish which lived 384–382 million years ago helps explain how plate tectonics played a key role in the evolution of ancient bony fish which eventually led ...

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Earth’s crust looks solid from the surface, but it is broken into a shifting mosaic of slabs that slowly rearrange oceans and continents. Understanding how those tectonic plates first formed is one of ...

1. A lithospheric-thickening model for the Indo-Asian collision / Gregory Houseman and Philip England -- 2. Neotectonics of Asia: thin-shell finite-element models with faults / Xianghong Kong and ...