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The history of the development of plate tectonics is centrally tied to the question of what drives plate motions. This has been the case since the failure of Wegener’s ideas about polflucht to explain continental drift to the seminal papers by Elsasser (1969), Solomon and Sleep (1974), and...
Plate tectonics is a remarkable theory. Its central tenet, which is widely known, states that the surface of the Earth moves in a piecewise coherent fashion via a number of rigid plates (Wilson1965; Morgan1968), with most of the deformation focused along plate boundaries (Stein1987). The und...
Understanding the dominant force responsible for supercontinent breakup is crucial for establishing Earth's geodynamic evolution that includes supercontinent cycles and plate tectonics. Conventionally, two forces have been considered: the push by mantle plumes from the sub-continental mantle which is called...
scarcely compatible with the compressional context induced by plate convergence, some authors have tentatively advanced the hypothesis that other types of forces acted in the Mediterranean region. In particular, the most often cited interpretation suggests that the migration of arcs and the relate...
Richardson R M,Solomon S C,Sleep N H.Intraplate stress as an indicator of plate tectonic driving forces. Journal of Geophysical Research . 1976Richardson, R. M., S. C. Soloman, and N. H. Sleep (1976), In- traplate stress as an indicator of plate tectonic driving forces, J. Geophys...
Plate tectonics describes the horizontal motions of lithospheric plates,the Earths outer shell,and interactions among them across the Earths surface.Since the establishment of the theory of plate tectonics about half a century ago,considerable debates have remained regarding the driving forces for plate ...
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