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 …

Archean eclogite-facies oceanic crust indicates modern-style plate tectonics

W Ning, T Kusky, L Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Establishing when modern-style plate tectonics with deep subduction began on Earth is one
of the biggest questions in geosciences today. A lack of Archean age (> 2.5 billion y ago …

[PDF][PDF] Rollback, scissor-like closure of the Mongol-Okhotsk Ocean and formation of an orocline: Magmatic migration based on a large archive of age data

T Wang, Y Tong, W ** in the Egyptian Eastern Desert: Evaluating the support vector machine, random forest, and XG boost …
A Shebl, D Abriha, AS Fahil, HA El-Dokouny… - Ore Geology …, 2023 - Elsevier
In essence, targeting mineralization necessitates exact structural delineation and thorough
lithological map**. The latter is still a challenge for geologists and its lack hinders …

Alpine-style nappes thrust over ancient North China continental margin demonstrate large Archean horizontal plate motions

Y Zhong, T Kusky, L Wang, A Polat, X Liu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Whether modern-style plate tectonics operated on early Earth is debated due to a paucity of
definitive records of large-scale plate convergence, subduction, and collision in the Archean …

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 …

The youngest matrix of 234 Ma of the Kanguer accretionary mélange containing blocks of N-MORB basalts: constraints on the northward subduction of the Paleo …

S Ao, Q Mao, BF Windley, D Song, Z Zhang… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
The Altaids accreted around, and grew southward, from the Siberian craton, but the time of
final amalgamation of this orogen is still controversial. The Eastern Tianshan in the …

Ultrahigh-pressure peridotites record Neoarchean collisional tectonics

Z Wu, C Wang, S Song, MB Allen, T Kusky… - Earth and Planetary …, 2022 - Elsevier
It is debated when plate tectonics first operated on Earth. One of the arguments against the
Archean (> 2.5 Ga) operation of plate tectonics is the lack of rock records that can be best …