Google Earth Geoscience Video Library (GEGVL): Organizing Geoscience Videos in a Google Earth Environment to Support Fieldwork Teaching Methodology in Earth Science by Ning Wang, Robert J. Stern, Mary L. Urquhart, Katherine M. Seals

“…Currently, GEGVL contains 150 videos organized into ten different geoscience disciplines: Plate Tectonics, Minerals, Structural Geology, Metamorphism, Magmatism, Hydrology, Environmental Science, Sedimentology, Paleontology, and Paleomagnetism. …”
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Joint Inversion of Receiver Functions and Apparent Incidence Angles for Sparse Seismic Data by Rakshit Joshi, Brigitte Knapmeyer‐Endrun, Klaus Mosegaard, Heiner Igel, Ulrich R. Christensen

“…For example, the lack of plate tectonics on Mars leads to low seismicity, which could, in turn, hinder the application of many terrestrial data analysis techniques. …”
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Do cratons preserve evidence of stagnant lid tectonics? by Derek Wyman

“…Widespread acceptance of a form of plate tectonics by ∼3.2 Ga is not at odds with the sporadic occurrence of stagnant lid tectonics after this time. …”
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$\protect \mbox {}^{40}$Ar/$\protect \mbox {}^{39}$Ar geochronology of crustal deformation by Monié, Patrick, Münch, Philippe, Milesi, Gaétan, Bonno, Michael, Iemmolo, Arthur

“…Crustal deformation is characterized by brittle and ductile faults that accommodate at different scales the strain imposed by plate tectonics. The aim of this contribution is to show with the help of different examples how the in situ $\mbox {}^{40}$Ar/$\mbox {}^{39}$Ar dating of synkinematic neocrystallized minerals in ductile shear zones and the step-heating $\mbox {}^{40}$Ar/$\mbox {}^{39}$Ar dating of synkinematic authigenic clays in fault gouges can bring information on the timing of fault activity. …”
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Terrane Collision‐Induced Subduction Initiation: Mode Selection and Implications for Western Pacific Subduction System by Fengyuan Cui, Zhong‐Hai Li

“…Abstract In the regime of plate tectonics, the subduction of an oceanic plate generally terminates with the collision and accretion of continental terranes. …”
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Commentaires à propos d'un essai de reconstitution de la genèse de la Méditerranée Comments on an Effort to Reconstruct the Geneis of the Mediterranean by Biju-Duval B.

“…<br> On the basis of the most recent data and publications on the origin of Mediterranean basins, the question arises of knowing whether plate-tectonics concepts can be applied and can help with petroleum prospection in the Mediterranean. …”
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Active detachment faulting controls folding and faulting in western Borneo, SE Asia by Syaakiirroh Sahari, Afroz Ahmad Shah, Dayangku Aaisyah, Navakanesh Batmanathan, Amirul Shahbuddin

“…The origin of active deformation and structural evolution in large areas of Western Borneo has been highly debated, with two contrasting views involving gravitational tectonics and plate tectonics. The scarcity of field data on land has significantly hampered our understanding of the onshore structures and their relationship with those of the offshore regions. …”
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Metamorphic consequences of secular changes in oceanic crust composition and implications for uniformitarianism in the geological record by Richard M. Palin, Brendan Dyck

“…This hypothesis underpins several recent studies that have addressed key geological questions concerning evolving plate tectonic styles, the rates and timing of continental crust formation, comparative planetology, and the emergence of complex life on Earth. …”
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Isolation of the South China Sea from the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre since the latest Miocene due to formation of the Luzon Strait by Shaoru Yin, F. Javier Hernández-Molina, Lin Lin, Jiangxin Chen, Weifeng Ding, Jiabiao Li

“…This work demonstrates the significant role of recent plate tectonics, gateway development, and marginal seas in the establishment of modern global ocean circulation.…”
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A coupled core-mantle evolution: review and future prospects by Takashi Nakagawa

“…However, despite this progress in understanding the observational data for geomagnetic secular variations, there are several unresolved issues that should be addressed in future investigations: (1) initial conditions—starting with the solidification of the global magma ocean with the onset timing of plate tectonics and geodynamo actions and (2) planetary habitability—how the dynamics of the Earth’s deep interior affects the long-term surface environment change that has been maintained in the Earth’s multisphere coupled system.…”
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Voyage of the Indian subcontinent since Pangea breakup and driving force of supercontinent cycles: Insights on dynamics from numerical modeling by Masaki Yoshida, M. Santosh

“…Keywords: Numerical modeling, Plate tectonics, Supercontinent, Geodynamics, Indian subcontinent, Pangea…”
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Mafic Archean continental crust prohibited exhumation of orogenic UHP eclogite by Palin, R, Moore, J, Zhang, Z, Huang, G, Wade, J, Dyck, B

“…UHP orogenic eclogite may thus readily have formed on the Archean Earth, but could not have been exhumed, weakening arguments for a Neoproterozoic onset of subduction and plate tectonics. Further, isostatic balance calculations for more mafic Archean continents indicate that the early Earth was covered by a global ocean over 1 km deep, corroborating independent isotopic evidence for large-scale emergence of the continents no earlier than c. 3 Ga. …”

The structural and kinematic development of the Austroalpine-Pennine boundary, S.E. Tauern, Eastern Alps by Wallis, S, Wallis, Simon Richard

“…</p> <p>Major extension in a dominantly convergent tectonic setting cannot be accounted for by the paradigm of plate tectonics and implies that body forces acting on the thickened crust of the destructive margin were a major driving force for deformation.…”

Metamorphic consequences of secular changes in oceanic crust composition and implications for uniformitarianism in the geological record by Palin, R, Dyck, B

“…This hypothesis underpins several recent studies that have addressed key geological questions concerning evolving plate tectonic styles, the rates and timing of continental crust formation, comparative planetology, and the emergence of complex life on Earth. …”

Investigating Influences on the Pb Pseudo‐Isochron Using Three‐Dimensional Mantle Convection Models With a Continental Reservoir by James Panton, J. Huw Davies, Tim Elliott, Morten Andersen, Don Porcelli, Matthew G. Price

“…We find that both U recycling after the great oxygenation event and Pb extraction after the onset of plate tectonics, are required in order to fit the observed gradient and scatter of both the 207Pb/204Pb—206Pb/204Pb and 208Pb/204Pb—206Pb/204Pb arrays. …”
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A Role for Subducted Oceanic Crust in Generating the Depleted Mid‐Ocean Ridge Basalt Mantle by Jonathan M. Tucker, Peter E. vanKeken, Rosemary E. Jones, Chris J. Ballentine

“…Abstract The composition of Earth's mantle, continental crust, and oceanic crust continuously evolve in response to the dynamic forces of plate tectonics and mantle convection. The classical view of terrestrial geochemistry, where mid‐ocean ridges sample mantle previously depleted by continental crust extraction, broadly explains the composition of the oceanic and continental crust but is potentially inconsistent with observed slab subduction to the lower mantle and oceanic crust accumulation in the deep mantle. …”
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3D Printing the World: Developing Geophysical Teaching Materials and Outreach Packages by Paula Koelemeijer, Jeff Winterbourne

“…The resulting globes provide a powerful way to explain the importance of plate tectonics in shaping a planet and linking surface features to deeper dynamic processes. …”
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Crustal Structure beneath the Precambrian Cratons of Gondwanaland and Its Evolution Using Teleseismic Receiver Function by Pousali Mukherjee, Kajaljyoti Borah, Alok Yadav

“…Observations of gradational Moho beneath few stations could indicate the possibility of mafic underplating at some point in their history of formation, growth, or evolution. Even if plate tectonics were dominant in the middle to late Archean, difference in spreading, drifting velocity, and distance travelled by the continents after Gondwana separation possibly led to crustal delamination, and destruction of thick crustal roots of cratons. …”
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Why would sea-level rise for global warming and polar ice-melt? by Aftab Alam Khan

“…Palaeo-sea level rise and fall in macro-scale (10–100 m or so) were related to marine transgression and regression in addition to other geologic events like converging and diverging plate tectonics, orogenic uplift of the collision margin, basin subsidence of the extensional crust, volcanic activities in the oceanic region, prograding delta buildup, ocean floor height change and sub-marine mass avalanche. …”
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Magmatic fingerprints of subduction initiation and mature subduction: numerical modelling and observations from the Izu-Bonin-Mariana system by Sandrine Ritter, Attila Balázs, Julia Ribeiro, Taras Gerya

“…Understanding the formation of new subduction zones is important because they have been proposed as the main driving mechanism for plate tectonics and they are crucial for geochemical cycles on Earth. …”
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