The generation of plate tectonics from mantle convection
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The hallmark of modern-day plate tectonics on Earth is the independent horizontal motion of lithospheric plates, facilitated at divergent plate boundaries by seafloor spreading, at transform plate boundaries by strike-slip fault motion, and at convergent plate boundaries by one-sided subduction.
“The hallmark of modern-day plate tectonics on Earth is the independent horizontal motion of lithospheric plates, facilitated at divergent plate boundaries by seafloor spreading, at transform plate boundaries by strike-slip fault motion, and at convergent plate boundaries by one-sided subduction”
From Secular change and the onset of plate tectonics on Earth (2020) · cites this paper as Bercovici, 2003
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- Authors
- Bercovici, D.
- Affiliations
- Yale University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Bercovici, David
- ORCID
- Bercovici, David
- Venue
- Earth and Planetary Science Letters
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2003-01
- Volume
- 205
- Issue
- 3-4
- Pages
- 107-121
- ISSN
- 0012-821X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2110903971
- Cited by
- 372
- References
- 85
- Citations by year
- 2026: 8 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 18 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 16 · 2020: 18 · 2019: 16 · 2018: 17 · 2017: 16 · 2016: 20 · 2015: 23 · 2014: 16 · 2013: 14 · 2012: 23
- FWCI
- 13.42
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Earth and Planetary Science Letters (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geophysics › High-pressure geophysics and materials
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geology › Geological and Geophysical Studies
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geophysics › Geological and Geochemical Analysis
- Keywords
- plate tectonics, mantle convection, lithospheric rheology, shear localization, viscoplastic rheology, damage mechanics, subduction initiation, plate boundaries, strike-slip motion, mantle flow models
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