Plate tectonics and continental basaltic geochemistry throughout Earth history
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Characteristic thermal regimes of plate tectonics and their metamorphic imprint throughout Earth history: When did Earth fi rst adopt a plate tectonics mode of behavior?
Where plates converge, one-sided subduction generates two contrasting thermal environments in the subduction zone (low dT/dP) and in the arc and subduction zone backarc or orogenic hinterland (high dT/dP). This duality of thermal regimes is the hallmark of modern plate tectonics, which is imprinted in the ancient rock record as penecontemporaneous metamorphic belts of two contrasting types, one...
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عنوان ژورنال: Earth and Planetary Science Letters
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0012-821X
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2017.10.031