Archaean multi-stage magmatic underplating drove formation of continental nuclei in the North China Craton by Liu, J, Palin, RM, Mitchell, RN, Liu, Z, Zhang, J, Li, Z, Cheng, C, Zhang, H

“…Such cratonic growth and maturation were prerequisites for the emergence of plate tectonics. Finally, these data suggest that North China was part of the Sclavia supercraton and that the Archaean onset of subduction occurred asynchronously worldwide.…”

Geomorphology and earth system science by Dadson, SJ

“…At the same time the chapter charts the evolution in geomorphology to consider plate tectonics and the origins of mountain ranges, geochemistry and its links between surfaces systems and the atmosphere, to later ideas emphasizing the interplay between landforms and life. …”

Frontiers in earth sciences: new ideas and interpretation by G. Scalera, G. Lavecchia

“…A one-day symposium on new and conventional ideas in plate tectonics and Mediterranean geodynamics was held in Rome on February 19, 2003 at the headquarters of INGV. …”
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Thermal Anomalies Detection Using Comparative Method for Small Earthquake by Wongpornchai Pisanu, Suwanprasit Chanida

“…Remote sensing in thermal region has been employed based on the concept of stress accumulation in the active plate tectonics region, which may be transformed as temperature variation prior to earthquake. …”
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Highlights on Geochemical Changes in Archaean Granitoids and Their Implications for Early Earth Geodynamics by Jaana Halla

“…A profound change in granitoid geochemistry occurred between 3.0 and 2.5 Ga when multi-source high-K calc-alkaline granitoid batholiths emerged, possibly indicating the onset of modern-type plate tectonics.…”
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Contribution of the late Miocene mammals from Calabria and Sicily to the palaeogeography of the central Mediterranean by Antonella Cinzia Marra

“…During Miocene, the paleogeography of the central Mediterranean area underwent significant modifications under control of Plate Tectonics. The area here considered occupies a southern position, rougly coincident with the Calabria-Peloritan Arc (CPA), located at the intersection between the NW/SE-trending southern Apennines and the SE-trending Sicilian Maghrebides. …”
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Aulacogens, the Donets Basin (Eastern Ukraine, Southwestern Russia), and the new classification of rifts: Towards a proper terminology by Ruban Dmitry A.

“…This term has persisted in the geoscience literature since its invention by Soviet geologists in the mid-20th century before the triumph of the plate tectonics, but its meaning has evolved. Attempts to change its meaning from descriptive to genetic have led to a broad spectrum of opinions on the definition of aulacogens. …”
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The sedimentary cycle on early Mars by McLennan, S, Grotzinger, J, Hurowitz, J, Tosca, N

“…This early cycle exhibits first-order similarities (e.g., facies relationships, groundwater diagenesis, recycling) and first-order differences (e.g., greater aeolian vs subaqueous processes; basaltic vs granitic provenance; absence of plate tectonics) to the terrestrial record. Mars’ sedimentary record preserves evidence for progressive desiccation and oxidation of the surface over time, but simple models for the nature and evolution of paleoenvironments (e.g., acid Mars, early warm/wet vs late cold/dry) have given way to a view where, similar to Earth, different climate regimes co-existed on regional scales, evolved on variable timescales and where redox chemistry played a pivotal role. …”

Analysis of the Influence of Thermal Loading on the Behaviour of the Earth’s Crust by Ivo Wandrol, Karel Frydrýšek, Daniel Čepica

“…The results proved the heating influence of the Sun on the Earth’s crust and plate tectonics.…”
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Insolation-driven 100,000-year glacial cycles and hysteresis of ice-sheet volume by Ayako Abe-Ouchi et al., Nature 500 by Constantin Cranganu

“…One hundred years ago the German meteorologist Alfred Wegener started a scientific revolution that was probably the most important of the 20th century: plate tectonics. In the same year (1912) in Serbia, Milutin Milanković, a civil engineer turned professor of mathematics at the University of Belgrade, published the paper that would forever change the way we look at and attempt to understand climate changes through our understanding of the so-called Milanković cycles. …”
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Jean Aubouin et les chaînes de montagnes : des observations aux synthèses. L’itinéraire scientifique d’un géologue au rayonnement international by Ferrière, Jacky, Faure, Michel

“…After an attempt to decipher the main operating rules of orogens, the emergence of Plate Tectonics theory led Jean Aubouin to turn to the Oceans without neglecting the continents, party carried out by its first and second generation “pupils”. …”
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Cold deep subduction recorded by remnants of a Paleoproterozoic carbonated slab by Cheng Xu, Jindřich Kynický, Wenlei Song, Renbiao Tao, Zeng Lü, Yunxiu Li, Yueheng Yang, Miroslav Pohanka, Michaela V. Galiova, Lifei Zhang, Yingwei Fei

“…The onset of modern-style plate tectonics remains under debate. Here, Xu et al. report a cold thermal-gradient recorded in an eclogite xenolith in Paleoproterozoic carbonatite from orogen, and propose that modern-style subduction has operated since at least the Paleoproterozoic.…”
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A Review of the Geomechanics Aspects in Space Exploration by Dariusz Knez, Mohammad Ahmad Mahmoudi Zamani

“…So far, a whole range of constitutive research projects on the plate tectonics, morphology, volcanic activities and volatile content of planetary bodies have been implemented. …”
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Stratigraphic structure of the B1 Tertiary tectonostratigraphic unit in eastern Slovenia by Bogomir Jelen, Helena Rifelj

“….: is the tectonostratigraphic structure of eastern Slovenia a manifestation of plate tectonics processes, and of which ones, are theories of continental escape in the Alps and associated dissection and offset of the formerly uniform Slovenian-Hungarian Paleogene basin tenableor not, are then there in the B1 stratigraphic equivalents of the Hungarian Paleogene basin formations, where are the important Eocene / Oligocene, Paleogene / Neogene, Rupelian / Chattian and Kiscellian / Egerian boundaries in Slovenia, and is there acontinuation of the B1 in Croatia and in the Mid-Hungarian tectonic zone?…”
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Effects of rheological stratification and elasticity of lithosphere on subduction initiation by Ikuo Katayama, Masaki Yoshida, Ken-ichi Hirauchi

“…However, if the ocean is disappeared, fluid penetration is likely to cease and plate tectonics would have stopped due to increasing the strength and rigidity of the lithosphere.…”
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A transdisciplinary and community-driven database to unravel subduction zone initiation by Fabio Crameri, Valentina Magni, Mathew Domeier, Grace E. Shephard, Kiran Chotalia, George Cooper, Caroline M. Eakin, Antoniette Greta Grima, Derya Gürer, Ágnes Király, Elvira Mulyukova, Kalijn Peters, Boris Robert, Marcel Thielmann

“…Despite numerous advances in our understanding of subduction since the theory of plate tectonics was established, the mechanisms of subduction zone initiation remain highly controversial. …”
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Seismic images of crust and upper mantle in Central Iran (from Jiroft to Ashtian) via teleseismic waves by Shahireh JAVADI, Fataneh TAGHIZADEH-FARAHMAND, Mohammad Reza GHEITANCHI

“…A detailed knowledge of the thickness of crust and upper mantle structure is important for understanding a plate tectonics and geodynamics in the region. We use body wave for detecting details of the subsurface structure. …”
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Archaean continental crust formed from mafic cumulates by Matthijs A. Smit, Kira A. Musiyachenko, Jeroen Goumans

“…Together, these processes explain the growth and differentiation of the continental crust during the Archaean without requiring external forcing such as meteorite impact or the start of global plate tectonics.…”
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Exciting opportunities in planetary structural geology and tectonics: An early career perspective by Kelsey Crane, Valentina Galluzzi

“…Earth’s lithospheric style of deformation is related to plate tectonics, but it turns out to be a unique case in our Solar System. …”
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Distribution of agromineral resources in space and time – a global geological perspective by Peter van Straaten

“…However, agromineral resources are not equally distributed on Earth’s surface, occurring more in one area than in another, and have accumulated in various geotectonic settings related to plate tectonics, being formed in specific geological time periods in Earth’s history. …”
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