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Brown, Michael, Tim Johnson, and Nicholas J. Gardiner. "Plate Tectonics and the Archean Earth." Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 48, no. 1 (May 30, 2020): 291–320. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-earth-081619-052705.

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If we accept that a critical condition for plate tectonics is the creation and maintenance of a global network of narrow boundaries separating multiple plates, then to argue for plate tectonics during the Archean requires more than a local record of subduction. A case is made for plate tectonics back to the early Paleoproterozoic, when a cycle of breakup and collision led to formation of the supercontinent Columbia, and bimodal metamorphism is registered globally. Before this, less preserved crust and survivorship bias become greater concerns, and the geological record may yield only a lower limit on the emergence of plate tectonics. Higher mantle temperature in the Archean precluded or limited stable subduction, requiring a transition to plate tectonics from another tectonic mode. This transition is recorded by changes in geochemical proxies and interpreted based on numerical modeling. Improved understanding of the secular evolution of temperature and water in the mantle is a key target for future research. ▪ Higher mantle temperature in the Archean precluded or limited stable subduction, requiring a transition to plate tectonics from another tectonic mode. ▪ Plate tectonics can be demonstrated on Earth since the early Paleoproterozoic (since c. 2.2 Ga), but before the Proterozoic Earth's tectonic mode remains ambiguous. ▪ The Mesoarchean to early Paleoproterozoic (3.2–2.3 Ga) represents a period of transition from an early tectonic mode (stagnant or sluggish lid) to plate tectonics. ▪ The development of a global network of narrow boundaries separating multiple plates could have been kick-started by plume-induced subduction.
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Coltice, Nicolas, Laurent Husson, Claudio Faccenna, and Maëlis Arnould. "What drives tectonic plates?" Science Advances 5, no. 10 (October 2019): eaax4295. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aax4295.

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Does Earth’s mantle drive plates, or do plates drive mantle flow? This long-standing question may be ill posed, however, as both the lithosphere and mantle belong to a single self-organizing system. Alternatively, this question is better recast as follows: Does the dynamic balance between plates and mantle change over long-term tectonic reorganizations, and at what spatial wavelengths are those processes operating? A hurdle in answering this question is in designing dynamic models of mantle convection with realistic tectonic behavior evolving over supercontinent cycles. By devising these models, we find that slabs pull plates at rapid rates and tear continents apart, with keels of continents only slowing down their drift when they are not attached to a subducting plate. Our models show that the tectonic tessellation varies at a higher degree than mantle flow, which partly unlocks the conceptualization of plate tectonics and mantle convection as a unique, self-consistent system.
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O'Neill, Craig, Simon Turner, and Tracy Rushmer. "The inception of plate tectonics: a record of failure." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 376, no. 2132 (October 2018): 20170414. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2017.0414.

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The development of plate tectonics from a pre-plate tectonics regime requires both the initiation of subduction and the development of nascent subduction zones into long-lived contiguous features. Subduction itself has been shown to be sensitive to system parameters such as thermal state and the specific rheology. While generally it has been shown that cold-interior high-Rayleigh-number convection (such as on the Earth today) favours plates and subduction, due to the ability of the interior stresses to couple with the lid, a given system may or may not have plate tectonics depending on its initial conditions. This has led to the idea that there is a strong history dependence to tectonic evolution—and the details of tectonic transitions, including whether they even occur, may depend on the early history of a planet. However, intrinsic convective stresses are not the only dynamic drivers of early planetary evolution. Early planetary geological evolution is dominated by volcanic processes and impacting. These have rarely been considered in thermal evolution models. Recent models exploring the details of plate tectonic initiation have explored the effect of strong thermal plumes or large impacts on surface tectonism, and found that these ‘primary drivers’ can initiate subduction, and, in some cases, over-ride the initial state of the planet. The corollary of this, of course, is that, in the absence of such ongoing drivers, existing or incipient subduction systems under early Earth conditions might fail. The only detailed planetary record we have of this development comes from Earth, and is restricted by the limited geological record of its earliest history. Many recent estimates have suggested an origin of plate tectonics at approximately 3.0 Ga, inferring a monotonically increasing transition from pre-plates, through subduction initiation, to continuous subduction and a modern plate tectonic regime around that time. However, both numerical modelling and the geological record itself suggest a strong nonlinearity in the dynamics of the transition, and it has been noted that the early history of Archaean greenstone belts and trondhjemite–tonalite–granodiorite record many instances of failed subduction. Here, we explore the history of subduction failure on the early Earth, and couple these with insights from numerical models of the geodynamic regime at the time. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue ‘Earth dynamics and the development of plate tectonics'.
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Klimczak, Christian, Paul K. Byrne, A. M. Celâl Şengör, and Sean C. Solomon. "Principles of structural geology on rocky planets." Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 56, no. 12 (December 2019): 1437–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2019-0065.

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Although Earth is the only known planet on which plate tectonics operates, many small- and large-scale tectonic landforms indicate that deformational processes also occur on the other rocky planets. Although the mechanisms of deformation differ on Mercury, Venus, and Mars, the surface manifestations of their tectonics are frequently very similar to those found on Earth. Furthermore, tectonic processes invoked to explain deformation on Earth before the recognition of horizontal mobility of tectonic plates remain relevant for the other rocky planets. These connections highlight the importance of drawing analogies between the rocky planets for characterizing deformation of their lithospheres and for describing, applying appropriate nomenclature, and understanding the formation of their resulting tectonic structures. Here we characterize and compare the lithospheres of the rocky planets, describe structures of interest and where we study them, provide examples of how historic views on geology are applicable to planetary tectonics, and then apply these concepts to Mercury, Venus, and Mars.
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Syafitri, Yanita, Bahtiar Bahtiar, and Lalu A. Didik. "ANALISIS PERGESERAN LEMPENG BUMI YANG MENINGKATKAN POTENSI TERJADINYA GEMPA BUMI DI PULAU LOMBOK." KONSTAN - JURNAL FISIKA DAN PENDIDIKAN FISIKA 4, no. 2 (January 14, 2020): 139–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.20414/konstan.v4i2.43.

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This research is a qualitative research. Where the purpose of this research is to find out how the shifts of the earth’s plates around Lombok Island can increase the frequency of potential earthquakes on Lombok Island. This study uses a qualitative approach by paying attention to the theory of earth’s plates and the movements of the earh’s plates that have been described previously. The results of this study indicate a link between earth plate shifts and the frequency of earthquakes on Lombok Island. The world’s active tectonic plates in which the movements of two of them (the Indo-Australian Plate and the Eurasian Plate) greatly affect the frequency of earthquakes due to passing through Lombok Island. In addition to the two active tectonics plates of the world, there is also one Fault namely the Flores Up Fault which stretches from Flores to Lombok Island which forms a trough amd is very active.
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Cawood, Peter A., Chris J. Hawkesworth, Sergei A. Pisarevsky, Bruno Dhuime, Fabio A. Capitanio, and Oliver Nebel. "Geological archive of the onset of plate tectonics." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 376, no. 2132 (October 2018): 20170405. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2017.0405.

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Plate tectonics, involving a globally linked system of lateral motion of rigid surface plates, is a characteristic feature of our planet, but estimates of how long it has been the modus operandi of lithospheric formation and interactions range from the Hadean to the Neoproterozoic. In this paper, we review sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic proxies along with palaeomagnetic data to infer both the development of rigid lithospheric plates and their independent relative motion, and conclude that significant changes in Earth behaviour occurred in the mid- to late Archaean, between 3.2 Ga and 2.5 Ga. These data include: sedimentary rock associations inferred to have accumulated in passive continental margin settings, marking the onset of sea-floor spreading; the oldest foreland basin deposits associated with lithospheric convergence; a change from thin, new continental crust of mafic composition to thicker crust of intermediate composition, increased crustal reworking and the emplacement of potassic and peraluminous granites, indicating stabilization of the lithosphere; replacement of dome and keel structures in granite-greenstone terranes, which relate to vertical tectonics, by linear thrust imbricated belts; the commencement of temporally paired systems of intermediate and high dT/dP gradients, with the former interpreted to represent subduction to collisional settings and the latter representing possible hinterland back-arc settings or ocean plateau environments. Palaeomagnetic data from the Kaapvaal and Pilbara cratons for the interval 2780–2710 Ma and from the Superior, Kaapvaal and Kola-Karelia cratons for 2700–2440 Ma suggest significant relative movements. We consider these changes in the behaviour and character of the lithosphere to be consistent with a gestational transition from a non-plate tectonic mode, arguably with localized subduction, to the onset of sustained plate tectonics. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue ‘Earth dynamics and the development of plate tectonics'.
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Y. Al-Ghalibi, Furat, and Laith Kh. Al-Hadithy. "Halabjah-Iraq Earthquake, Comparisons and General Review." International Journal of Engineering & Technology 7, no. 4.20 (November 28, 2018): 190. http://dx.doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.20.25924.

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The collapsed seismic force level depends on region nature where the construction is to be built because of an earthquake released an energy which generated by a sudden randomly movement of earth segments (plate tectonics). Structure geographic location plays a major role in seismic analysis and design of structures because of the global seismicity influenced by the earthquake hypocenter and plate tectonics nature. An earthquake will occur if earth tectonic plate shaft and the mass of earth materials moved with plates stress interface and energy released because of ground vibration which its amplitude reduced with rupture distance. Also the earth vibration generates a large random inertia force that should carried by the structural components safety. In the present study, a comparisons of Halabjah-Iraq Earthquake with many world earthquake is investigated, generally Halabjah earthquake classified as medium risk earthquake
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Rangin, Claude, Xavier Le Pichon, Juventino Martinez-Reyes, and Mario Aranda-Garcia. "GRAVITY TECTONICS AND PLATE MOTIONS." Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 179, no. 2 (March 15, 2008): 107–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.2113/gssgfbull.179.2.107.

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Abstract This is an introduction to the series of papers presented in this volume that concerns the Cenozoic tectonics of the western margin of the Gulf of Mexico, from Texas in the north to the Veracruz area into the south. These combined offshore-onshore structural studies investigate the links between surperficial gravity slidings and deep crustal flow within the complex geodynamic framework of Mexico, located at the junction between the North America, Carribean and Pacific plates (including the earlier Farallon plate).
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Sleep, Norman H. "Archean plate tectonics: what can be learned from continental geology?" Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 29, no. 10 (October 1, 1992): 2066–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e92-164.

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Some basic questions about Archean plate tectonics can be addressed by examining accretionary Archean margins, in particular fault zones with significant strike-slip components on the Canadian Shield. (1) Were the oceanic plates typically rigid like modern plates? Yes. Significant lateral viscosity contrasts in the lithosphere between plates and plate boundaries are required for major strike-slip faults to exist. Conversely, strike-slip faults are a kinematic consequence of rigid plates. (2) Did large oceanic plates exist in the Archean? Probably. First, the length and offset of the longest preserved segments of Archean faults are similar to modern examples such as in Alaska. Less directly, the duration of a period with a consistent sense of strike slip at a point on the continental side of an accretionary margin should be related to the time that a typical oceanic plate remains outboard of the margin. This time varies proportionally with size of typical ocean plates and inversely with their velocity. The duration of an example of persistent strike slip on the Canadian Shield is comparable to that of Cenozoic examples. (3) Did old oceanic crust and hence moderate plate velocities occur in the Archean? Perhaps. Paleomagnetic poles are the most direct line of evidence, but they usually relate to continental blocks. The duration of consistent strike-slip motion, preserved alkalic seamounts which record eruption on old oceanic crust, and the duration of ocean basins are potential indirect indications. Overall, the hotter mantle does not appear to have had a great effect on Archean plate motions. Thus, the geometry and rate of plate tectonics are strongly influenced by the lithosphere.
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Bowin, C. O., W. Yi, R. D. Rosson, and S. T. Bolmer. "Phase change in subducted lithosphere, impulse, and quantizing Earth surface deformations." Solid Earth 6, no. 3 (September 23, 2015): 1075–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/se-6-1075-2015.

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Abstract. The new paradigm of plate tectonics began in 1960 with Harry H. Hess's 1960 realization that new ocean floor was being created today and is not everywhere of Precambrian age as previously thought. In the following decades an unprecedented coming together of bathymetric, topographic, magnetic, gravity, seismicity, seismic profiling data occurred, all supporting and building upon the concept of plate tectonics. Most investigators accepted the premise that there was no net torque amongst the plates. Bowin (2010) demonstrated that plates accelerated and decelerated at rates 10−8 times smaller than plate velocities, and that globally angular momentum is conserved by plate tectonic motions, but few appeared to note its existence. Here we first summarize how we separate where different mass sources may lie within the Earth and how we can estimate their mass. The Earth's greatest mass anomalies arise from topography of the boundary between the metallic nickel–iron core and the silicate mantle that dominate the Earth's spherical harmonic degree 2 and 3 potential field coefficients, and overwhelm all other internal mass anomalies. The mass anomalies due to phase changes in olivine and pyroxene in subducted lithosphere are hidden within the spherical harmonic degree 4–10 packet, and are an order of magnitude smaller than those from the core–mantle boundary. Then we explore the geometry of the Emperor and Hawaiian seamount chains and the 60° bend between them that aids in documenting the slow acceleration during both the Pacific Plate's northward motion that formed the Emperor seamount chain and its westward motion that formed the Hawaiian seamount chain, but it decelerated at the time of the bend (46 Myr). Although the 60° change in direction of the Pacific Plate at of the bend, there appears to have been nary a pause in a passive spreading history for the North Atlantic Plate, for example. This, too, supports phase change being the single driver for plate tectonics and conservation of angular momentum. Since mountain building we now know results from changes in momentum, we have calculated an experimental deformation index value (1–1000) based on a world topographic grid at 5 arcmin spacing and displayed those results for viewing.
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Paulos, Yonas Kinfu. "Sedimentation between parallel plates." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/30055.

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Settling basins can be shortened by using a stack of horizontal parallel plates which develop boundary layers in which sedimentation can occur. The purpose of this study is to examine the design parameters for such a system and to apply this approach to a fish rearing channel in which settling length is strictly limited. Flow between parallel rough and smooth plates has been modelled together with sediment concentration profile. Accurate description of boundary layer flow requires the solution of Navier-Stokes equations, and due to the complexity of the equations to be solved for turbulent flow some assumptions are made to relate the Reynolds stresses to turbulent kinetic energy and turbulent energy dissipation rate. The simplified equations are solved using a numerical method which uses the approach given by the TEACH code. The flow parameters obtained from the turbulent flow model are used to obtain the sediment concentration profile within the settling plates. Numerical solution of the sedimentation process is obtained by adopting the general transport equation. The lower plate is assumed to retain sediments reaching the bottom. The design of a sedimentation tank for a fish rearing unit with high velocity of flow has been investigated. The effectiveness of the sedimentation tank depends on the uniformity of flow attained at the inlet, and experiments were conducted to obtain the most suitable geometric system to achieve uniform flow distribution without affecting other performances of the fish rearing unit. The main difficulties to overcome were the heavy circulation present in the sedimentation tank and the clogging of the distributing system by suspended particles. Several distributing systems were investigated, the best is discussed in detail. It was concluded that a stack of horizontal parallel plates can be used in fish rearing systems where space is limited for settling sediments. Flow distribution along the vertical at the entrance to the plates determines the efficiency of the sediment settling process and a suitable geometrical configuration can be constructed to distribute the high velocity flow uniformly across the vertical. Numerical modelling of sediment removal ratio for flow between smooth and rough parallel plates has been calculated. The results show that almost the same pattern of sediment deposition occurs for both the smooth-smooth and rough-smooth plate arrangements.
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Jarocha-Ernst, Alex. "Creating landscapes with simulated colliding plates /." Link to online version, 2006. https://ritdml.rit.edu/dspace/handle/1850/1962.

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Weeraratne, Dayanthie Sakunthala. "Anomalous seismic and rheological behavior of the asthenosphere beneath oceanic and continental plates /." View online version; access limited to Brown University users, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3174690.

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Wilder, Douglas T. "Relative Motion History of the Pacific-Nazca (Farallon) Plates since 30 Million Years Ago." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2003. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0000069.

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Fisher, David. "Employing 3-dimensional computer simulation to examine the archaeoastronomy of Scottish megalithic sites : the implication of plate tectonics and isostasis." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683082.

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Papadimitriou, Nikolaos. "Geodynamics and synchronous filling of a rift type-basin evolved through compression tectonics (The western margin of the Levant Basin)." Thesis, Paris 6, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA066540/document.

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La Méditerranée orientale doit sa complexité aux mouvements tectoniques des plaques Africaines, d’Arabie et d'Eurasie. Les récentes découvertes pétrolières du bassin Levantin (2009) renforcent la nécessité d’une approche combinée sismique/terrain pour comprendre l’évolution de son remplissage. L’intégration des données de sismique 2D et des données de terrain a permis de proposer des modèles conceptuels 3D qui, couplées aux données de puits, ont permis de définir les sources sédiementaires et les principales phases de remplissages correspondantes aux grands évènements géodynamiques. Ainsi l’évolution du bassin du Levan est marquée par la transition d’une sédimentation carbonate vers une sédimentation mixte (silicoclatisque/carbonaté) au cours du Crétacé. Seul le mont Ératosthène, situé sur une tête de bloc basculé hérité du rifting thétysien, conserve une sédimentation carbonatée superficielle jusqu’au Crétacé supérieur, liée à sa distance des sources silicoclastiques. Celui-ci présente 4 séquences de sédimentation carbonatée alternant superficielle et profonde: La fin du Jurassique moyen, le Crétacé inférieur, le Crétacé supérieur suivie et le Miocène. L'amorce de la collision Miocène en les plaques Eurasienne et Africaine coïncide avec le soulèvement d'Eratosthène avec une phase paroxysmique au cours du Miocène supérieur suivi par son basculement vers le nord en avant de l’ile de Chypre. Nous montrons que la collision a provoqué la formation de petits bassins au sud de Chypre ; un bassin piggyback (Polis Basin) et un bassin flexural (bassin de Limassol) ; contrôlés par la distribution des sédiments mésozoïques
The Eastern Mediterranean owes its complex nature to the movement of Africa, Arabia and Eurasia. The recent gas discoveries in the Levant Basin (2009) provoked the necessity of necessity of conducting a combined (seismic and field) study to better understand the geological evolution of the Basin. The combination of geophysical and field data allows the conceptualization of onshore and, offshore 3D models in order to characterize the tectonostratigraphic evolution of this area and eventually trace the main sources and pathways that contributed to the infilling of the Levant Basin. The evolution of the Levant Basin is marked by the transition from a pure carbonate system to a mix system (carbonate /siliciclastic) during the Cenozoic. The Eratosthenes block corresponds to a fault block platform. Four major seismic sequences, characterized by periods of aggradation, retrogradation and progradation, punctuated by major unconformities and drowning surfaces have been recognized on the Eratosthenes Seamount. These periods are: the Late Jurassic; the Early Cretaceous, the Late Cretaceous and the Miocene. The initiation of the collision during the Miocene between the African and Eurasian plates coincides with the uplift of the Eratosthenes Seamount with a peak during the upper Miocene (pre-Messinian Salinity Crisis) followed by its northward tilting under Cyprus thrusting. We show that the collision of the two plates caused the formation of small basins in southern part of Cyprus; a piggyback basin (Polis), and a flexural basin (Limassol) that were controlled by the different substratum of the Mesozoic sediments
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Anderson, Phillip. "THE PROTEROZOIC TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF ARIZONA (PRECAMBRIAN, PLATE TECTONICS, VOLCANIC, STRATIGRAPHY)." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/183853.

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Archean tectonics are irreconcilable with modern plate tectonics without clearly understanding Proterozoic tectonic accretionary prosesses. Arizona best displays a convergent margin where Proterozoic accretion to an Archean craton generated a new Proterozoic crust from 1800 to 160 Ma. This 12 year study independently formulated a definitive understanding of Arizona's Proterozoic tectonic evolution with new lithologic, petrologic, geochemical, structural and relative age data, and extensive new mapping. The Northwest Gneiss Belt contains an early Proterozoic arkosic clastic wedge at the Wyoming Archean edge, but only intraoceanic elements--Antler-Valentine and Bagdad volcanic belts--on Proterozoic oceanic crust south of the wedge. The Central Volcanic Belt evolved diachronously on oceanic crust: 1800-1750 Ma formative volcanism (Bradshaw Mountain, Mayer, Ash Creek and Black Canyon Creek Groups) stepped SE to form the Prescott-Jerome island arc above a SE-dipping subduction zone; a 1740 Ma NW subduction flip accreted the arc to the Archean craton, evolved I-type plutons of NW alkali-enrichment opposit to arc tholeiites, and formed calc-alkaline Union Hills Group volcanics at the southeast arc front. Except for hiatal Alder Group deposition in structural troughs, the central magmatic arc emerged as the trench stepped southeastward across SE Arizona with flattening of subduction, growth of the Pinal Schist fore-arc basin, 1700 Ma accretion of the Dos Cabenzas arc to the margin, eruption of felsic ignimbrite fans across the central arc front, and Mazatzal Group shallow marine sedimentation across the emergent arc. Proterozoic plate tectonics were subtly different from modern plate tectonics, producing oceanic crust, island arcs and other features very different in detail from modern and Archean analogs. The Proterozoic Plate Tectonic Style warrants clear distinction from those of other eras. This study establishes for Arizona an extensive, accurate and new Proterozoic data base, for central Arizona a detailed relative chronology surpassing isotopic resolution, and a new formal stratigraphic framework to be the foundation for future studies. This dissertation is superceded by a new book on Arizona's Proterozoic Tectonic Evolution, published by the Precambrian Research Institute, 810 Owens Lane, Payson, Arizona, 85541.
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Janes, Daniel Mark. "Tectonics of one-plate planets." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/185087.

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The Voyager 2 encounter with Neptune and its moons in August of 1989 completed the discovery phase of planetary exploration. In the 25 years since Mariner 4 returned the first images of another planet, geophysical models for such basic processes as mantle convection and loading which were developed for the Earth have been strained beyond their limits by features such as the Tharsis rise on Mars and the coronae of Miranda which cover as much as a quarter of their planetary circumference. In this work I develop a general planetary shell model in spherical coordinates that is capable of treating shells of arbitrary thickness and driving forces of arbitrary breadth. I then present a methodology for finding the forces exerted on the shell from two processes. I first develop a treatment for mantle convection driven by a density anomaly within a viscous mantle. This model is applied to the small moon of Uranus, Miranda, to study the three large coronae which dominate its surface and for which several competing hypotheses were offered, two of which invoked mantle convection driven by density anomalies of opposite sign. I then develop a general model for loading of the lithosphere and examine the effects of a range of load breadths and lithosphere thicknesses. I map out the combinations of these two variables where classical approximations such as the flat-plate and thin-shell models are applicable as well as determine the nature and extent of the transition between these two regimes. Finally, I employ finite element modeling to investigate the coronae on Venus, showing that morphological aspects of these features reported in the literature can be produced by flexure of the lithosphere beneath a volcanic load and gravitational sliding of a cooled crust off these volcanic mounds. I then, however, produce independent characteristic topographic profiles for three of the more regular coronae which question how typical the reported morphologies are in the coronae in general.
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Williams, Elsie Joy Carleton University Dissertation Geology. "Precambrian plate tectonics; a geodynamic approach." Ottawa, 1986.

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Lorenz, Jacqueline. "Le dogger du berry : contribution a la connaissance des plates-formes carbonatees europeennes au jurassique." Paris 6, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989PA066323.

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Ce travail, stratigraphique, resulte de l'exploitation des donnees de terrain acquises lors des levers de cartes geologiques a 1/50 000 de la bordure sud du bassin parisien. Cinq profils decrits entre le blanc et la vallee de la loire permettent de proposer des datations pour les differents facies rencontres. A l'ouest de la region etudiee le callovien et l'oxfordien inferieur sont absents. Au centre le bathonien manque completement. A partir de saint-amand-montrond, le callovien apparait et devient complet a proximite de la vallee de la loire. Il existe donc une lacune dont le maximum d'extension est bathonien inferieur a oxfordien moyen, sur une plate-forme carbonatee bordee a l'est par le fosse de la loire et s'ouvrant a l'ouest sur l'atlantique en cours d'ouverture. Les variations de facies et d'epaisseurs avec apparition de facies particuliers (evaporites), sont lies a une tectonique synsedimentaire active au cours du bajocien et du bahtonien. De grands accidents de socle de direction armoricaine ont rejoue en blocs bascules, comme "l'accident sud du bassin de paris" responsable de la structure anticlinale maille-arpheuilles-chateauroux.
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Books on the topic "Plates (Tectonics)"

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1926-1987, Cox Allan, and Gordon Richard G. 1953-, eds. Relative motions between oceanic and continental plates in the Pacific Basin. Boulder, Colo: Geological Society of America, 1985.

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Engebretson, David C. Relative motions between oceanicand continental plates in the Pacific Basin. Boulder, Colo: Geological Society of America, 1985.

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Plates vs plumes: A geological controversy. Hoboken, N.J: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

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Park, R. G. Geological structures and moving plates. Glasgow: Blackie, 1988.

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Park, R. G. Geological structures and moving plates. Glasgow: Blackie, 1988.

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Dynamic earth: Plates, plumes, and mantle convection. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

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Tomecek, Steve. Plate tectonics. New York: Chelsea House, 2009.

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B, Silverstein Virginia, and Nunn Laura Silverstein, eds. Plate tectonics. Brookfield, Conn: Twenty-First Century Books, 1998.

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Silverstein, Alvin. Plate tectonics. Minneapolis: Twenty-First Century Books, 2009.

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Plate tectonics. Cambridge, Mass: Geo-Books Pub., 1998.

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Ribeiro, António, and António Mateus. "Global Tectonics with Deformable Plates." In Soft Plate and Impact Tectonics, 51–173. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56396-6_3.

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Hamilton, Warren B. "Evolution of convergent plates." In Proceedings of the International Conferences on Basement Tectonics, 3–4. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1614-5_1.

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Ribeiro, António, and António Mateus. "Global Tectonics with Rigid Plates: Foundations and Limitations." In Soft Plate and Impact Tectonics, 3–49. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56396-6_2.

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Rykov, V. V., and V. P. Trubitsyn. "Numerical Technique for Calculation of Three-Dimensional Mantle Convection and Tectonics of Continental Plates." In Computational Seismology and Geodynamics, 17–22. Washington, D. C.: American Geophysical Union, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/cs003p0017.

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Beavan, John, Susan Ellis, Laura Wallace, and Paul Denys. "Kinematic constraints from GPS on oblique convergence of the Pacific and Australian Plates, central South Island, New Zealand." In A Continental Plate Boundary: Tectonics at South Island, New Zealand, 75–94. Washington, D. C.: American Geophysical Union, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/175gm05.

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Schmincke, Hans-Ulrich. "Plate Tectonics." In Volcanism, 13–20. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18952-4_2.

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Jain, Sreepat. "Plate Tectonics." In Fundamentals of Physical Geology, 313–36. New Delhi: Springer India, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1539-4_14.

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Stüwe, Kurt. "Plate Tectonics." In Geodynamics of the Lithosphere, 15–45. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04980-8_2.

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Schulmann, Karel, and Hubert Whitechurch. "Plate Tectonics." In Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, 1287–97. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11274-4_1239.

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Park, R. G. "Plate tectonics." In Foundations of Structural Geology, 109–21. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1989. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6576-1_14.

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Conference papers on the topic "Plates (Tectonics)"

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Romano, Christopher, and Nicholas Bruscia. "Applicable Experiments: Collaborative Models for Material Research." In AIA/ACSA Intersections Conference. ACSA Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.aia.inter.15.17.

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Before the 19th century, a buildings tectonics was largely unified. Categorical distinctions among so-called “systems’ – structure, enclosure, interior and exterior walls, and circulation were unknown. All of that changed with the advent of the steel frame – vertical circulation, environmental systems, clad surfaces, and curtain walls, newly liberated from any structural role, could be internalized, enclosed, encased, and hidden within other concealing floor plates, walls, and ceiling voids.
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Pazzaglia, Frank. "TECTONIC GEOMORPHOLOGY INSIGHTS TO FRONTIER RESEARCH IN PLATE TECTONICS WITH EXAMPLES FROM PLATE BOUNDARY AND PLATE INTERIOR SETTINGS." In GSA Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA - 2018. Geological Society of America, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/abs/2018am-316427.

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Stern, Robert J., and Taras Gerya. "THE PLATE TECTONIC PUMP: HOW THE TRANSITION FROM SINGLE LID TO PLATE TECTONICS STIMULATES BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION." In GSA Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, USA - 2019. Geological Society of America, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/abs/2019am-334378.

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McKenzie, D. P. "PLATE TECTONICS AT 50." In GSA Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA - 2018. Geological Society of America, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/abs/2018am-318024.

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Condie, Kent, Sergei Pisarevsky, and Stephen J. Puetz. "IS PLATE TECTONICS SPEEDING UP?" In GSA 2020 Connects Online. Geological Society of America, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/abs/2020am-352876.

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Harrison, Mark. "WHEN DID PLATE TECTONICS INITIATE?" In GSA Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA - 2018. Geological Society of America, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/abs/2018am-316243.

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Destro, Nivaldo. "PLANET MODEL OF PLATE TECTONICS BASED ON EINSTEIN´S THEORY OF RELATIVITY." In GSA Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA - 2018. Geological Society of America, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/abs/2018am-316903.

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van Oosterhout, C., and M. Poppelreiter. "Global to Regional Plate Tectonics during the Permo-Triassic." In Third Arabian Plate Geology Workshop. Netherlands: EAGE Publications BV, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.20144043.

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Brown, Michael, Tim E. Johnson, and Tim E. Johnson. "ON THE EMERGENCE OF PLATE TECTONICS." In GSA Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, USA - 2019. Geological Society of America, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/abs/2019am-333553.

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Czech, Theresa L., and Catherine Cooper. "CAN SUPERCONTINENTS FORM WITHOUT PLATE TECTONICS?" In GSA 2020 Connects Online. Geological Society of America, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/abs/2020am-356267.

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Reports on the topic "Plates (Tectonics)"

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Scotese, C. R., and W. S. Mckerrow. Ordovician Plate Tectonic Reconstructions. Natural Resources Canada/ESS/Scientific and Technical Publishing Services, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.4095/132195.

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Cook, D. G., and B. C. MacLean. Subsurface Proterozoic stratigraphy and tectonics of the western plains of the Northwest Territories. Natural Resources Canada/ESS/Scientific and Technical Publishing Services, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.4095/215739.

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Riddihough, R. P., and R. D. Hyndman. Chapter 13: Modern Plate Tectonic Regime of the Continental Margin of western Canada. Natural Resources Canada/ESS/Scientific and Technical Publishing Services, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.4095/134101.

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Hyndman, R. D., and T. S. Hamilton. Cenozoic Relative Plate Motions Along the northeastern Pacific Margin and Their Association With Queen Charlotte area Tectonics and Volcanism. Natural Resources Canada/ESS/Scientific and Technical Publishing Services, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.4095/131966.

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MacLean, B. C. Digital GIS versions of the oversize map figures from Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 575 (Subsurface Proterozoic stratigraphy and tectonics of the western plains of the Northwest Territories). Natural Resources Canada/ESS/Scientific and Technical Publishing Services, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.4095/223450.

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Karlstrom, Karl, Laura Crossey, Allyson Matthis, and Carl Bowman. Telling time at Grand Canyon National Park: 2020 update. National Park Service, April 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36967/nrr-2285173.

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Grand Canyon National Park is all about time and timescales. Time is the currency of our daily life, of history, and of biological evolution. Grand Canyon’s beauty has inspired explorers, artists, and poets. Behind it all, Grand Canyon’s geology and sense of timelessness are among its most prominent and important resources. Grand Canyon has an exceptionally complete and well-exposed rock record of Earth’s history. It is an ideal place to gain a sense of geologic (or deep) time. A visit to the South or North rims, a hike into the canyon of any length, or a trip through the 277-mile (446-km) length of Grand Canyon are awe-inspiring experiences for many reasons, and they often motivate us to look deeper to understand how our human timescales of hundreds and thousands of years overlap with Earth’s many timescales reaching back millions and billions of years. This report summarizes how geologists tell time at Grand Canyon, and the resultant “best” numeric ages for the canyon’s strata based on recent scientific research. By best, we mean the most accurate and precise ages available, given the dating techniques used, geologic constraints, the availability of datable material, and the fossil record of Grand Canyon rock units. This paper updates a previously-published compilation of best numeric ages (Mathis and Bowman 2005a; 2005b; 2007) to incorporate recent revisions in the canyon’s stratigraphic nomenclature and additional numeric age determinations published in the scientific literature. From bottom to top, Grand Canyon’s rocks can be ordered into three “sets” (or primary packages), each with an overarching story. The Vishnu Basement Rocks were once tens of miles deep as North America’s crust formed via collisions of volcanic island chains with the pre-existing continent between 1,840 and 1,375 million years ago. The Grand Canyon Supergroup contains evidence for early single-celled life and represents basins that record the assembly and breakup of an early supercontinent between 729 and 1,255 million years ago. The Layered Paleozoic Rocks encode stories, layer by layer, of dramatic geologic changes and the evolution of animal life during the Paleozoic Era (period of ancient life) between 270 and 530 million years ago. In addition to characterizing the ages and geology of the three sets of rocks, we provide numeric ages for all the groups and formations within each set. Nine tables list the best ages along with information on each unit’s tectonic or depositional environment, and specific information explaining why revisions were made to previously published numeric ages. Photographs, line drawings, and diagrams of the different rock formations are included, as well as an extensive glossary of geologic terms to help define important scientific concepts. The three sets of rocks are separated by rock contacts called unconformities formed during long periods of erosion. This report unravels the Great Unconformity, named by John Wesley Powell 150 years ago, and shows that it is made up of several distinct erosion surfaces. The Great Nonconformity is between the Vishnu Basement Rocks and the Grand Canyon Supergroup. The Great Angular Unconformity is between the Grand Canyon Supergroup and the Layered Paleozoic Rocks. Powell’s term, the Great Unconformity, is used for contacts where the Vishnu Basement Rocks are directly overlain by the Layered Paleozoic Rocks. The time missing at these and other unconformities within the sets is also summarized in this paper—a topic that can be as interesting as the time recorded. Our goal is to provide a single up-to-date reference that summarizes the main facets of when the rocks exposed in the canyon’s walls were formed and their geologic history. This authoritative and readable summary of the age of Grand Canyon rocks will hopefully be helpful to National Park Service staff including resource managers and park interpreters at many levels of geologic understandings...
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This dynamic planet: World map of volcanoes, earthquakes, impact craters and plate tectonics. US Geological Survey, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/i2800.

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Plate Tectonics Shape (and Shake) British Columbia. Natural Resources Canada/ESS/Scientific and Technical Publishing Services, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.4095/289531.

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Plate-tectonic map of the Circum-Pacific region, Arctic sheet. US Geological Survey, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/cp41.

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Maps showing seismicity and tectonic stresses along the Eurasia-Africa plate boundary. US Geological Survey, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/i2363.

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