Onset of plate tectonics by the Eoarchean

BF Windley, T Kusky, A Polat - Precambrian Research, 2021 - Elsevier
One of the most contentious areas of Earth Science today is when, or whether or not modern-
style plate tectonics was in operation in the Archean Eon. In this review we present evidence …

Growth of continental crust in intra-oceanic and continental-margin arc systems: Analogs for Archean systems

T Kusky, L Wang - Science China Earth Sciences, 2022 - Springer
Earth's continental crust has grown and been recycled throughout geologic history along
convergent plate margins. The main locus of continental crustal growth is in intra-oceanic …

Trace element discrimination of arc, slab failure, and A-type granitic rocks

JB Whalen, RS Hildebrand - Lithos, 2019 - Elsevier
Although widely used, classification schemes for granitic rocks have until now failed to
separate slab failure from arc magmatism in collisional orogens. Our previous work showed …

Tectonic evolution of convergent plate margins and its geological effects

Y Zheng, Y Chen, R Chen, L Dai - Science China Earth Sciences, 2022 - Springer
Oceanic lithosphere is generated at divergent plate boundaries and disappears at
convergent plate boundaries. Seafloor spreading and plate subduction together constitute …

Archean dome-and-basin style structures form during growth and death of intraoceanic and continental margin arcs in accretionary orogens

T Kusky, BF Windley, A Polat, L Wang, W Ning… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Determining whether plate tectonics or some other mode of planetary dynamics operated in
the early Archean is one of the most contentious and debated areas of Earth Sciences today …

Origin of the oldest (3600–3200 Ma) cratonic core in the Western Dharwar Craton, Southern India: Implications for evolving tectonics of the Archean Earth

M Jayananda, M Guitreau, KR Aadhiseshan… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
This contribution presents a comprehensive synthesis on the origin of oldest (3600–3200
Ma) cratonic core in the Western Dharwar Craton (WDC), Southern India based our new …

Geodynamic controls on magmatic arc migration and quiescence

GM Gianni, SP Luján - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Reconfigurations of magmatic arcs through time have been recognized since pioneering
works, describing inland and trenchward arc migrations or magmatic shut-off lasting for …

Catastrophic slab loss in southwestern Pangea preserved in the mantle and igneous record

GM Gianni, CR Navarrete - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The Choiyoi Magmatic Province represents a major episode of silicic magmatism in
southwestern Pangea in the mid-Permian-Triassic, the origin of which remains intensely …

Triassic to Middle Jurassic geodynamic evolution of southwestern Gondwana: From a large flat-slab to mantle plume suction in a rollback subduction setting

C Navarrete, G Gianni, A Encinas, M Márquez… - Earth-science …, 2019 - Elsevier
A novel geodynamic evolution model of the southwestern region of Gondwana from the late
Triassic to the middle Jurassic period is proposed in this contribution, based on new data …

[HTML][HTML] Archean versus Phanerozoic oceanic crust formation and tectonics: ophiolites through time

H Furnes, Y Dilek - Geosystems and Geoenvironment, 2022 - Elsevier
A global compilation of structural, lithological, and geochemical data on a selection of
Archean, Proterozoic and Phanerozoic magmatic complexes, interpreted as ophiolites, is …