After simulating rock and heat flow throughout a planet’s lifetime, researchers have proposed that plate tectonics is just one stage of a planet’s life cycle. In the simulation, the Earth’s ...

The initiation of plate tectonics on Earth is a critical event in our planet’s history. The time lag between the first proto-subduction (about 4 billion years ago) and global tectonics ...

Wilson's ideas were central to the so-called Plate Tectonic Revolution ... could be the catalyst that sets the mountain-building rock cycle in motion. "Earthquakes, mountain-building and other ...

"Our work discovers that a completely different part of the plate is being pulled apart because of the subduction process, and at a remarkably early phase of the tectonic cycle," said Erkan Gün ...

Wilson's ideas were central to the so-called Plate Tectonic Revolution ... could be the catalyst that sets the mountain-building rock cycle in motion. "Earthquakes, mountain-building and other ...

But the theory of plate tectonics has rocked this picture ... But the result of this icy cycle may be similar to the hard-rock recycling on Earth, moving nutrients between surface ice and liquid ...

At right is an active continental margin, where the oceanic rock descends into the Earth's interior. The downward pull is a key driver The coherent narrative of plate tectonics was about to fall ...

Plate tectonics is the great unifying ... "continental nuclei formed by non-Wilson cycle processes." There’s still evidence for some recycling of crustal rock into the mantle at that time ...

Like all great scientific ideas, plate tectonics is ... at the deep ocean trenches, crustal rock sinks back into the mantle, completing the conveyor belt cycle. These plate boundaries – one ...