Preface to the Special Issue on "Geodynamics of Taiwan and the Philippines" by Win-Bin Cheng and Shou-Yeh Gong

“…Taiwan and the Philippines are located next to each other in terms of geography and also plate tectonics. Luzon Island originated from the interactions between the South China Sea and Philippine Sea Plates. …”
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Earth's Earliest Phaneritic Ultramafic Rocks: Mantle Slices or Crustal Cumulates? by Jiawei Zuo, A. Alexander G. Webb, Emily J. Chin, Lukáš Ackerman, Jason Harvey, Peter J. Haproff, Thomas Müller, Qin Wang, Arthur H. Hickman, Dominik Sorger, Anthony Ramírez‐Salazar

“…Abstract When plate tectonics initiated remains uncertain, partly because many signals interpreted as diagnostic of plate tectonics can be alternatively explained via hot stagnant‐lid tectonics. …”
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Preface to the Special Issue on Geodynamic and Climate-Change Processes over Tibet, Xinjiang and Siberia by Cheinway Hwang, Benjamin Fong Chao, Jeffrey T. Freymueller, Wenbin Shen, C. K. Shum

“…Tibet, Xinjiang and Siberia (TibXS) are regions with active plate tectonics. Evidence from satellite gravimetry and altimetry shows the hydrological evolutions over these regions are sensitive to global climate change. …”
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Deep Drilling into a Mantle Plume Volcano: The Hawaii Scientific Drilling Project by Donald M. Thomas, Donald J. DePaolo, Edward M. Stolper

“…These volcanoes are the principal geochemical probe into the deep mantle, a testing ground for understanding mantle convection, plate tectonics and volcanism, and an archive of information on Earth’s magnetic field and lithospheredynamics. …”
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Axisymmetric bend of the lithospheric plate of the exponential profile by A. A. Baimukhametov, A. A. Kultasov, P. B. Abdimanapova, Zh. B. Mazhit

“…Earth 's seismic and volcanic activity is related to plate tectonics. Thin elastic surface plates form a lithosphere which experience different loads. …”
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Palaeomagnetism and tectonics of middle America and adjacent regions Part 1 by J. Urrutia Fucugauchi

“…Investigations, unified under the working hypothesis of plate tectonics, have produced a revolution in the earth sciences over the past decades. …”
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Identification of marine magnetic anomalies based on the sliding window curve similarity method by Mingming Wang, Jing Cao, Jianlou Li, Xianghong Liu

“…Abstract Marine magnetic anomalies play an essential role in plate tectonics and geodynamics. The conventional method to identify marine magnetic anomalies is to visually compare synthetic and observed magnetic anomaly profiles, and there is usually no quantitative evaluation for the identification results. …”
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The Coral-Rich Devonian Limestones of the English Riviera UNESCO Global Geopark by Malcolm Hart, Christopher Smart

“…Formed in the tropical seas of the Middle Devonian, 10°S of the Equator, they also demonstrate the history of Devon in terms of Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics. Caves in these limestones provide an important record of both marine and terrestrial Pleistocene history, including some important hominin remains.…”
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Editorial: Seeing convergent margin processes through metamorphism by Chen, Y, Li, Q, Zhang, G, Tsujimori, T, Palin, RM

“…In some cases, ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) and ultrahigh-temperature (UHT) metamorphic rocks are observed at both ancient and young convergent plate margins, marking the operation of extreme tectonism in the regime of plate tectonics. This Research Topic aims to understand how regional metamorphism operated at convergent plate margins through the study of field and petrographic observations, geochemical and petrological analysis, high-pressure experiments, and thermodynamic modeling. …”

Review of Asymmetric Seafloor Spreading and Oceanic Ridge Jumps in the South China Sea by Jiangong Wei, Shuangling Dai, Huai Cheng, Houjin Wang, Pengcheng Wang, Fuyuan Li, Zhiyuan Xie, Rongwei Zhu

“…Seafloor spreading is an important cornerstone of the theory of plate tectonics. Asymmetric seafloor spreading and oceanic ridge jumps are common phenomena in this process and play important roles in controlling oceanic crust accretion, regional tectonics and geological geometric boundaries. …”
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Refinement of the supercontinent cycle with Hf, Nd and Sr isotopes by Kent C. Condie, Richard C. Aster

“…The fact that a probable onset of plate tectonics around 3 Ga is not recorded in isotopic distributions may be due the existence of widespread felsic crust formed prior to the onset of plate tectonics in a stagnant lid tectonic regime, as supported by Nd and Hf model ages.…”
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Global geochemical fingerprinting of plume intensity suggests coupling with the supercontinent cycle by Hamed Gamal EL Dien, Luc S. Doucet, Zheng-Xiang Li, Grant Cox, Ross Mitchell

“…The links between plate tectonics and deep mantle structure remain unclear. …”
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Water in the critical zone: soil, water and life from profile to planet by M. J. Kirkby

“…Earth is unique in the combination of abundant liquid water, plate tectonics and life, providing the broad context within which the critical zone exists, as the surface skin of the land. …”
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Scientific Journals as Fossil Traces of Sweeping Change in the Structure and Practice of Modern Geology by H. L. Vacher, Sarah E. Fratesi

“…The Apollo lunar landings had as much influence on the topics and practice of geological research as the much-cited plate-tectonics revolution. These results reflect the barely-tangible effects of the changes in vocabulary and habit of thought that have pervaded the substance of geology. …”
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A review of the gravity and magnetic studies in the Tyrrhenian Basin and its volcanic districts by A. Rapolla, V. Paoletti, G. Florio, M. Fedi, F. Cella

“…Since the Sixties, the turning point marked by the Plate Tectonics global theory has provided new ideas for the interpretation of the complex geodynamic evolution of the Mediterranean area. …”
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Onset of double subduction controls plate motion reorganisation by Kuidi Zhang, Jie Liao, Taras Gerya

“…Abstract Face-to-face double subduction systems, in which two oceanic plates subduct toward each other, are essential elements of plate tectonics. Two subduction zones in such systems are typically uneven in age and their spatially and temporally variable dynamics remain enigmatic. …”
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Staging of Geological Development of an Area of the Southern Cis-Timan in the Late Proterozoic by Yu. G. Paktovskiy

“…The geological history of the Timan and ancient Ural margins of the Russian Plate in the Late Proterozoic (RF3-V2) is discussed according the staging concept of their geological development within the general theory of plate tectonics. The importance of the problem of “triple junctions” or points of triple stretching at the beginning of rifting is shown. …”
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Genome tectonics: linking dynamic genome organization with cellular nutrient by Morgan Fleming, Fina Nelson, Iain Wallace, Christopher H. Eskiw

“…The discovery of these dynamic processes and organization maybe as significant as dynamic plate tectonics is to geology, there is little information tying genome organization to specific nutrients or dietary intake. …”
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Physico-chemical model as a tool to explain the composition of thermal waters in tectonically active regions by Elena A. Kuz’mina, Svetlana V. Veshcheva, Olga V. Zarubina

“…In the present work, we address the structural-hydrogeological conditions for the Baikal Rift System (BRS) natural water formation in terms of lithospheric plate tectonics. A comparative analysis for the trace-element composition of thermal waters of rift and island-arc systems was made. …”
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The Climates of Earth’s Next Supercontinent: Effects of Tectonics, Rotation Rate, and Insolation by M. J. Way, H. S. Davies, J. C. Duarte, J. A. M. Green

“…Abstract We explore two possible Earth climate scenarios, 200 and 250 million years into the future, using projections of the evolution of plate tectonics, solar luminosity, and rotation rate. …”
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