Experimental Evaluation of Smartphone Accelerometer and Low-Cost Dual Frequency GNSS Sensors for Deformation Monitoring by Alexandru M. Lăpădat, Christian C. J. M. Tiberius, Peter J. G. Teunissen

“…Smartphone accelerometers and low-cost Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) equipment have faced rapid and important advancement, opening a new door to deformation monitoring applications such as landslide, plate tectonics and structural health monitoring (SHM). …”
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Metamorphism and exhumation of basement gneiss domes in the Quadrilátero Ferrífero: Two stage dome-and-keel evolution? by Kathryn Cutts, Cristiano Lana, Fernando Alkmim, Federico Farina, Hugo Moreira, Viviane Coelho

“…The presence of dome-and-keel provinces in Archean cratons has been connected with the initiation of plate tectonics on Earth as these features are most commonly observed in Archean rocks. …”
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SPECIFIC FEATURES OF DEFORMATION OF THE CONTINENTAL AND OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE AS A RESULT OF THE EARTH CORE NORTHERN DRIFT by Mikhail A. Goncharov, Yuri N. Raznitsin, Yuri V. Barkin

“…The latters are responsible for the periodic creation and break-up of supercontinents, plate tectonics and regional geodynamical processes; they also produce the ‘structural background’, in the presence of which it is challenging to reveal the above mentioned submeridional compression structures. …”
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Applications of 3D Paleontological Data at the Florida Museum of Natural History by Michael J. Ziegler, Michael J. Ziegler, Michael J. Ziegler, Victor J. Perez, Victor J. Perez, Jeanette Pirlo, Jeanette Pirlo, Jeanette Pirlo, Rachel E. Narducci, Rachel E. Narducci, Sean M. Moran, Sean M. Moran, Molly C. Selba, Molly C. Selba, Alexander K. Hastings, Claudia Vargas-Vergara, Claudia Vargas-Vergara, Pavlo D. Antonenko, Pavlo D. Antonenko, Bruce J. MacFadden, Bruce J. MacFadden

“…Specifically, lessons on dinosaur trackways, horse evolution, and the Great American Biotic Interchange teach geologic concepts such as deep time, taphonomy, plate tectonics, and evolutionary trends. The same 3D models developed for these K–12 lessons have been used during Florida Museum’s outreach events to engage broad audiences with hands-on exhibits and activities. …”
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The generation and evolution of the Archean continental crust: The granitoid story in southeastern Brazil by Rodrigo S. Marimon, Chris J. Hawkesworth, Elton L. Dantas, Rudolph A.J. Trouw, Wilson Teixeira, Peter C. Hackspacher, Allen Fetter, Ciro A. Ávila, Silvia Volante, Atlas V. Corrêa Neto, Everton M. Bongiolo, Rodrigo Vinagre, Maurício Simon

“…It is compelling evidence that plate tectonics was active in this segment of Brazil from ∼3 Ga.…”
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The naked planet Earth: Most essential pre-requisite for the origin and evolution of life by S. Maruyama, M. Ikoma, H. Genda, K. Hirose, T. Yokoyama, M. Santosh

“…The primordial ocean was extremely acidic (pH = 1–2) and enriched in halogens (Cl, F and others), S, N and metallic elements (Cd, Cu, Zn, and others), inhibiting the birth of life. Plate tectonics cleaned up these elements which interfered with RNA. …”
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Did global tectonics drive early biosphere evolution? Carbon isotope record from 2.6 to 1.9 Ga carbonates of Western Australian basins by Lindsay, J, Brasier, M

“…Small planets with insufficient endogenic energy resources to sustain the crust/mantle interactions of plate tectonics (such as Mars) seem to us unlikely to have allowed evolution beyond single-celled life forms. …”

Hydrated Peridotite – Basaltic Melt Interaction Part I: Planetary Felsic Crust Formation at Shallow Depth by Anastassia Y. Borisova, Anastassia Y. Borisova, Nail R. Zagrtdenov, Michael J. Toplis, Wendy A. Bohrson, Anne Nédélec, Oleg G. Safonov, Oleg G. Safonov, Oleg G. Safonov, Gleb S. Pokrovski, Georges Ceuleneer, Ilya N. Bindeman, Ilya N. Bindeman, Oleg E. Melnik, Klaus Peter Jochum, Brigitte Stoll, Ulrike Weis, Andrew Y. Bychkov, Andrey A. Gurenko, Svyatoslav Shcheka, Artem Terehin, Vladimir M. Polukeev, Dmitry A. Varlamov, Kouassi Chariteiro, Sophie Gouy, Philippe de Parseval

“…We hypothesize that such a mechanism of felsic crust formation may have been widespread on the early Earth and, possibly on Mars as well, before the onset of modern plate tectonics and just after solidification of the first ultramafic-mafic magma ocean and alteration of this primitive protocrust by seawater at depths of less than 10 km.…”
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The Helium and Carbon Isotope Characteristics of the Andean Convergent Margin by P. H. Barry, J. M. De Moor, J. M. De Moor, A. Chiodi, F. Aguilera, F. Aguilera, M. R. Hudak, D. V. Bekaert, S. J. Turner, J. Curtice, A. M. Seltzer, G. L. Jessen, G. L. Jessen, E. Osses, J. M. Blamey, M. J. Amenábar, M. Selci, M. Cascone, A. Bastianoni, M. Nakagawa, R. Filipovich, E. Bustos, M. O. Schrenk, J. Buongiorno, C. J. Ramírez, T. J. Rogers, K. G. Lloyd, D. Giovannelli, D. Giovannelli, D. Giovannelli, D. Giovannelli

“…Subduction zones represent the interface between Earth’s interior (crust and mantle) and exterior (atmosphere and oceans), where carbon and other volatile elements are actively cycled between Earth reservoirs by plate tectonics. Helium is a sensitive tracer of volatile sources and can be used to deconvolute mantle and crustal sources in arcs; however it is not thought to be recycled into the mantle by subduction processes. …”
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF WEB-BASED LEARNING MULTIMEDIA FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS’ LITHOSPHERE MATERIAL by Ellese Sulistianingsih, M Mukminan

“…Plate Update: Refreshing Ideas for Teaching Plate Tectonics. Teaching Geography, 42(1). Retrieved from https://search.pro quest.com/docview/1952375936/73816528324E4DACPQ/1?…”
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A genetic link between transform and hyper-extended margins by Le Pourhiet, L, May, D, Huille, L, Watremez, L, Leroy, S

“…The similarity between the geometry of the West African and South American coastlines is among one of the strongest natural observations supporting the plate tectonic paradigm. However, using classical plate tectonic approaches to model these conjugate transform margins results in a high degree of variability in palaeogeographic reconstructions. …”

An Analysis of Silurian Paleo–Tethys Hydrocarbon Source Rock Characteristics in North Africa, the Middle East, and South China by Enze Xu, Yaning Wang, Shangfeng Zhang, Rui Zhu, Jianhao Liang, Rui Han, Gaoyang Gong, Min Xu, Xin Cheng

“…This is achieved by scrutinizing the plate tectonic activity and evolution of the ancient Tethys Ocean and combining these findings with the paleotectonic sedimentation background of North Africa, the Middle East, and South China. …”
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Subduction history of the Caribbean from upper-mantle seismic imaging and plate reconstruction by Benedikt Braszus, Saskia Goes, Rob Allen, Andreas Rietbrock, Jenny Collier, Nick Harmon, Tim Henstock, Stephen Hicks, Catherine A. Rychert, Ben Maunder, Jeroen van Hunen, Lidong Bie, Jon Blundy, George Cooper, Richard Davy, J. Michael Kendall, Colin Macpherson, Jamie Wilkinson, Marjorie Wilson

“…Seismic imaging of subducted plates offers a way to improve plate tectonic reconstructions. Here, Braszus et al. use new ocean-bottom seismometer data from the Lesser Antilles to locate subducted spreading centres and faults thus providing a new understanding of the evolution of the Caribbean plate.…”
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Indo-Atlantic plate accelerations around the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary: a time-scale error, not a plume-push signal by Pérez-Díaz, L, Eagles, G, Sigloch, K

“…Corrected for this error, the residual long-term patterns of Indo-Atlantic plate motions and accompanying plate-tectonic reorganization are explicable in terms of maturation of the circuit’s spreading ridges, without invoking a significant plume-push force.…”

Seismic reflections from a lithospheric suture zone below the Archaean Yilgarn Craton by Andrew J. Calvert, Michael P. Doublier, Samantha E. Sellars

“…The timing and nature of the first plate tectonic processes on Earth is disputed. Here the authors present a seismic reflection image of a suture zone that extends to 60 km depth beneath the ancient Yilgarn region of western Australia, suggesting that plate subduction occurred as early as 2.8 billion years ago…”
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Ionospheric quasi-static electric field anomalies during seismic activity in August–September 1981 by M. Gousheva, D. Danov, P. Hristov, M. Matova

“…The paper proposes new results, analyses and information for the plate tectonic situation in the processing of INTERCOSMOS-BULGARIA-1300 satellite data about anomalies of the quasi-static electric field in the upper ionosphere over activated earthquake source regions at different latitudes. …”
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Provenance of the Papuan Peninsula (Papua New Guinea): Zircon Inheritance from Miocene–Pliocene Volcanics and Volcaniclastics by Robert J. Holm, Kelly Heilbronn, Dulcie Saroa, Gideon Maim

“…Plate tectonic reconstructions of Papua New Guinea prior to the late Cenozoic are characterized by a lack of provenance data to constrain the relative origin of the allochthonous terranes. …”
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Integrated thermodynamic and thermomechanical numerical modeling: A useful method for studying deep Earth water and carbon cycling by Zhong-Hai Li

“…The plate tectonic evolution controls the mass and energy circulation between the Earth's surface and interior, during which the volatiles (e.g., water and carbon) could also accompany the tectonic up- and down-wellings. …”
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Papanin Ridge and Ojin Rise Seamounts (Northwest Pacific): Dual Hotspot Tracks Formed by the Shatsky Plume by Antje Dürkefälden, Jörg Geldmacher, Maxim Portnyagin, Dieter Garbe‐Schönberg, Reinhard Werner, Dietmar Müller, Folkmar Hauff, Kaj Hoernle

“…Combining our results with plate tectonic reconstructions, we conclude that Papanin Ridge represents a hotspot track formed by plume‐ridge interaction. …”
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Ensemble Kalman filter for the reconstruction of the Earth's mantle circulation by M. Bocher, M. Bocher, A. Fournier, N. Coltice

“…Those models physically link mantle dynamics to surface tectonics. Combined with plate tectonic reconstructions, they have the potential to produce a new generation of mantle circulation models that use data assimilation methods and where uncertainties in plate tectonic reconstructions are taken into account. …”
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