The habitability of Venus

F Westall, D Höning, G Avice, D Gentry, T Gerya… - Space Science …, 2023 - Springer
Venus today is inhospitable at the surface, its average temperature of 750 K being
incompatible to the existence of life as we know it. However, the potential for past surface …

Numerical modeling of subduction: State of the art and future directions

T Gerya - Geosphere, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
During the past five decades, numerical modeling of subduction, one of the most
challenging and captivating geodynamic processes, remained in the core of geodynamic …

Archaean multi-stage magmatic underplating drove formation of continental nuclei in the North China Craton

J Liu, RM Palin, RN Mitchell, Z Liu, J Zhang, Z Li… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The geodynamic processes that formed Earth's earliest continents are intensely debated.
Particularly, the transformation from ancient crustal nuclei into mature Archaean cratons is …

[HTML][HTML] The formation of Neoarchean continental crust in the south-east Superior Craton by two distinct geodynamic processes

DR Mole, PC Thurston, JH Marsh, RA Stern… - Precambrian …, 2021 - Elsevier
The formation of the continental crust in the early Earth, and the geodynamics that drove it,
are fundamental to understanding the evolution of our planet, but remain intensely debated …

Plate tectonics: What, where, why, and when?

RM Palin, M Santosh - Gondwana Research, 2021 - Elsevier
The theory of plate tectonics is widely accepted by scientists and provides a robust
framework with which to describe and predict the behavior of Earth's rigid outer shell–the …

How did the continental crust form: No basalt, no water, no granite

N Arndt - Precambrian Research, 2023 - Elsevier
The process that generated the continental crust has long been debated. One school argues
that, through most of geological time, the crust formed at convergent margins like most …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial and temporal control of Archean tectonomagmatic regimes

ED Vandenburg, O Nebel, RH Smithies… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Secular trends in plutonic whole-rock geochemistry pose critical, although non-unique,
constraints to early Earth tectonics. Here, we present a large whole-rock geochemical (879 …

Self-replicating subduction zone initiation by polarity reversal

J Almeida, N Riel, FM Rosas, JC Duarte… - Communications Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Subduction zones have recurrently formed on Earth. Previous studies have, however,
suggested that they are unlikely to start in the interior of a pristine ocean. Instead, they seem …

Open-system fractional melting of Archean basalts: implications for tonalite–trondhjemite–granodiorite (TTG) magma genesis

G Huang, R Palin, D Wang, J Guo - Contributions to Mineralogy and …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Tonalite–trondhjemite–granodiorite (TTG) gneiss forms a major component of
Archean continental crust. Resolving the origin of TTG gneisses and the secular change in …

Vegetation change across the Drake Passage region linked to late Eocene cooling and glacial disturbance after the Eocene–Oligocene transition

N Thompson, U Salzmann… - Climate of the Past …, 2021 - cp.copernicus.org
The role and climatic impact of the opening of the Drake Passage and how it affected both
marine and terrestrial environments across the Eocene–Oligocene transition (EOT∼ 34 Ma) …