Subduction drives plate tectonics and builds continental crust, and as such is one of the
most important processes for sha** the present-day Earth. Here we review both theory …

Plate tectonics and convection of the solid, rocky mantle are responsible for transporting
heat out of Earth. However, the physics of plate tectonics is poorly understood; other planets …

Plate tectonics, involving a globally linked system of lateral motion of rigid surface plates, is
a characteristic feature of our planet, but estimates of how long it has been the modus …

Plate tectonics is among the most important geological processes on Earth, but its
emergence and evolution remain unclear. Here we extrapolate models of present-day plate …

Layered viscosity, temperature‐dependent viscosity, and surface plates have an important
effect on the scale and morphology of structure in spherical models of mantle convection …

Abstract The short-lived 182 Hf-182 W isotope system (t 1/2= 9 Ma) left evidence in both
ancient and modern terrestrial rock record of processes that took place during the earliest …

Presented here are self‐consistent, three‐dimensional simulations of mantle convection,
some of which display an approximation of plate tectonic behavior that is continuous in …

During the last four decades, subduction remained one of the most challenging and
captivating geodynamic processes investigated with numerical techniques. While significant …

Here it is documented how an existing code for modelling mantle convection in a cartesian
domain, Stag3D, has been converted to model a 3D spherical shell by using the recently …

In the last decade, significant progress has been made toward understanding how plate
tectonics is generated from mantle dynamics. A primary goal of plate-generation studies has …