The Earth as a planetary system has experienced significant change since its formation c.
4.54 Gyr ago. Some of these changes have been gradual, such as secular cooling of the …

Partial melting is the fundamental process by which juvenile crust was produced from the
mantle and subsequently reworked to become the stable, compositionally-differentiated …

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 …

The thermal evolution of subducting slabs controls a range of subduction processes, yet we
lack a robust understanding of how thermal structure develops over a subduction zone's …

Paired metamorphism is the hallmark of asymmetric subduction at Phanerozoic convergent
plate margins, yet spatially and temporally linked paired metamorphic belts have rarely been …

Non-volcanic tremor (NVT) and episodic slow slip events (SSEs) have been observed below
the seismogenic zone of relatively warm subduction zones for the past 20 years …

The theory of plate tectonics is widely accepted by scientists and provides a robust
framework with which to describe and predict the behavior of Earth's rigid outer shell–the …

This contribution investigates mechanisms controlling subduction development and
stabilization over time (coined as' slabitization'), from a nascent slab to a mature slab …

Subduction‐related dehydration and exhumation‐related rehydration play an important role
in water recycling on Earth. Water can be transported to the deep mantle through crustal …

Identifying long-lived subduction at the periphery of supercontinents provides insights into
the processes of block assembly and dispersal within the supercontinent cycle. The Yangtze …