Spreading continents kick-started plate tectonics

Patrice F. Rey (), Nicolas Coltice and Nicolas Flament
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Patrice F. Rey: Earthbyte Research Group, School of Geosciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney NSW 2006, Australia
Nicolas Coltice: Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon, UMR 5276 CNRS, Université Lyon 1, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France
Nicolas Flament: Earthbyte Research Group, School of Geosciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney NSW 2006, Australia

Nature, 2014, vol. 513, issue 7518, 405-408

Abstract: The slow gravitational collapse of early continents could have kick-started transient episodes of plate tectonics until, as the Earth’s interior cooled and oceanic lithosphere became heavier, plate tectonics became self-sustaining.

Date: 2014
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