Plate tectonics on the Earth triggered by plume-induced subduction initiation

T. V. Gerya (), R. J. Stern, M. Baes, S. V. Sobolev and S. A. Whattam
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T. V. Gerya: ETH-Zurich, Sonneggstrasse 5
R. J. Stern: University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson
M. Baes: GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences, Heinrich-Mann-Allee 18/19
S. V. Sobolev: GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences, Heinrich-Mann-Allee 18/19
S. A. Whattam: Korea University

Nature, 2015, vol. 527, issue 7577, 221-225

Abstract: High-resolution three-dimensional thermomechanical simulations of Earth's lithosphere indicate that mantle plumes could have initiated the first subduction zones, but only in the hotter early Earth for old oceanic plates.

Date: 2015
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