Onset of plate tectonics by the Eoarchean

BF Windley, T Kusky, A Polat - Precambrian Research, 2021 - Elsevier
One of the most contentious areas of Earth Science today is when, or whether or not modern-
style plate tectonics was in operation in the Archean Eon. In this review we present evidence …

The subduction plate interface: Rock record and mechanical coupling (from long to short timescales)

P Agard, A Plunder, S Angiboust, G Bonnet, J Ruh - Lithos, 2018 - Elsevier
Short-and long-term processes at or close to the subduction plate interface (eg, mineral
transformations, fluid release, seismicity and more generally deformation) might be more …

[HTML][HTML] Stagnant lids and mantle overturns: Implications for Archaean tectonics, magmagenesis, crustal growth, mantle evolution, and the start of plate tectonics

JH Bédard - Geoscience Frontiers, 2018 - Elsevier
The lower plate is the dominant agent in modern convergent margins characterized by
active subduction, as negatively buoyant oceanic lithosphere sinks into the asthenosphere …

What's down there? The structures, materials and environment of deep-seated slow slip and tremor

WM Behr, R Bürgmann - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Deep-seated slow slip and tremor (SST), including slow slip events, episodic tremor and
slip, and low-frequency earthquakes, occur downdip of the seismogenic zone of numerous …

Assembling North China Craton within the Columbia supercontinent: the role of double-sided subduction

M Santosh - Precambrian Research, 2010 - Elsevier
An evaluation of recent S-wave receiver functions, S-wave velocities and two versions of P-
wave tomographic images along various transects in the North China Craton provides some …

Invited review paper: Fault creep caused by subduction of rough seafloor relief

K Wang, SL Bilek - Tectonophysics, 2014 - Elsevier
Among the wide range of thermal, petrologic, hydrological, and structural factors that
potentially affect subduction earthquakes, the roughness of the subducting seafloor is …

Anatomy of a Cambrian suture in Gondwana: Pacific-type orogeny in southern India?

M Santosh, S Maruyama, K Sato - Gondwana research, 2009 - Elsevier
Southern India occupies a central position in the Late Neoproterozoic–Cambrian Gondwana
supercontinent assembly. The Proterozoic mosaic of southern India comprises a collage of …

Subduction of oceanic lithosphere in the Alps: Selective and archetypal from (slow-spreading) oceans

P Agard - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
The Alps are amongst the best subduction archives in the world, with abundant blueschists
and eclogites preserving fragments of mantle, gabbros, thinned continental margin and …

Cretaceous Basaltic Terranes in western Columbia: elemental, chronological and Sr–Nd isotopic constraints on petrogenesis

AC Kerr, GF Marriner, J Tarney, A Nivia… - Journal of …, 1997 - academic.oup.com
Accreted terranes comprising Mid to Late Cretaceous picrites, basalts and dolerites occur in
three north–south trending belts in western Colombia, in the Central Cordillera, Western …

Plate interface rheological switches during subduction infancy: Control on slab penetration and metamorphic sole formation

P Agard, P Yamato, M Soret, C Prigent, S Guillot… - Earth and Planetary …, 2016 - Elsevier
Subduction infancy corresponds to the first few million years following subduction initiation,
when slabs start their descent into the mantle. It coincides with the transient (yet systematic) …