[HTML][HTML] Secular change and the onset of plate tectonics on Earth

RM Palin, M Santosh, W Cao, SS Li… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
The Earth as a planetary system has experienced significant change since its formation c.
4.54 Gyr ago. Some of these changes have been gradual, such as secular cooling of the …

A Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic reconstruction of the Southwest Pacific region: Tectonics controlled by subduction and slab rollback processes

WP Schellart, GS Lister, VG Toy - Earth-Science Reviews, 2006 - Elsevier
A Cenozoic tectonic reconstruction is presented for the Southwest Pacific region located
east of Australia. The reconstruction is constrained by large geological and geophysical …

Gangdese magmatism in southern Tibet and India–Asia convergence since 120 Ma

DC Zhu, Q Wang, SL Chung, PA Cawood… - Geological Society …, 2019 - lyellcollection.org
A compilation of 290 zircon U–Pb ages of intrusive rocks indicates that the Gangdese
Batholith in southern Tibet was emplaced from c. 210 Ma to c. 10 Ma. Two intense magmatic …

Evolution and diversity of subduction zones controlled by slab width

WP Schellart, J Freeman, DR Stegman, L Moresi… - Nature, 2007 - nature.com
Subducting slabs provide the main driving force for plate motion and flow in the Earth's
mantle,,,, and geodynamic, seismic and geochemical studies offer insight into slab dynamics …

Plate tectonics in the twenty-first century

YF Zheng - Science China Earth Sciences, 2023 - Springer
Plate tectonics was originally established as a kinematic theory of global tectonics, in which
the Earth's rigid outer layer, the lithosphere, consists of different size plates that move …

A benchmark comparison of spontaneous subduction models—Towards a free surface

H Schmeling, AY Babeyko, A Enns, C Faccenna… - Physics of the Earth and …, 2008 - Elsevier
Numerically modelling the dynamics of a self-consistently subducting lithosphere is a
challenging task because of the decoupling problems of the slab from the free surface. We …

[HTML][HTML] A review of analogue modelling of geodynamic processes: Approaches, scaling, materials and quantification, with an application to subduction experiments

WP Schellart, V Strak - Journal of Geodynamics, 2016 - Elsevier
We present a review of the analogue modelling method, which has been used for 200 years,
and continues to be used, to investigate geological phenomena and geodynamic processes …

The basins of Sundaland (SE Asia): Evolution and boundary conditions

M Pubellier, CK Morley - Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2014 - Elsevier
Most of the basins developed in the continental core of SE Asia (Sundaland) evolved since
the Late Cretaceous in a manner that may be correlated to the conditions of the subduction …

Influence of trench width on subduction hinge retreat rates in 3‐D models of slab rollback

DR Stegman, J Freeman, WP Schellart… - Geochemistry …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Subduction of tectonic plates limited in lateral extent and with a free‐trailing tail, ie,“free
subduction,” is modeled in a three‐dimensional (3‐D) geometry. The models use a …

Rapid subduction initiation and magmatism in the Western Pacific driven by internal vertical forces

B Maunder, J Prytulak, S Goes, M Reagan - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Plate tectonics requires the formation of plate boundaries. Particularly important is the
enigmatic initiation of subduction: the sliding of one plate below the other, and the primary …