Plate tectonics, damage and inheritance

David Bercovici () and Yanick Ricard
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David Bercovici: Yale University
Yanick Ricard: Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon, Université de Lyon 1, CNRS, ENS-Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France

Nature, 2014, vol. 508, issue 7497, 513-516

Abstract: Lithospheric damage, combined with transient mantle flow and migrating proto-subduction, is proposed to explain the apparent emergence of plate tectonics three billion years ago; modelling confirms that tectonic plate boundaries and fully formed tectonic plates can arise under conditions characteristic of Earth but not of Venus.

Date: 2014
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