How mantle slabs drive plate tectonics

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Predicting plate velocities with mantle circulation models

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Role of ocean‐continent contrast and continental keels on plate motion, net rotation of lithosphere, and the geoid

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Aseismicity in the lower mantle by superplasticity of the descending slab

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Geodynamic models of deep subduction

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Subduction initiation: spontaneous and induced

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A full-plate global reconstruction of the Neoproterozoic

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Metamorphic chemical geodynamics in continental subduction zones

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Mantle dynamics in the Mediterranean

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Cenozoic evolution of Neotethys and implications for the causes of plate motions

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Evidence from ophiolites, blueschists, and ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic terranes that the modern episode of subduction tectonics began in Neoproterozoic time

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On the relationships between slab dip, back‐arc stress, upper plate absolute motion, and crustal nature in subduction zones

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Magmatic record of India-Asia collision

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Stagnant lids and mantle overturns: Implications for Archaean tectonics, magmagenesis, crustal growth, mantle evolution, and the start of plate tectonics

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Catastrophic initiation of subduction following forced convergence across fracture zones

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Reconstructing the Alps–Carpathians–Dinarides as a key to understanding switches in subduction polarity, slab gaps and surface motion

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The Dynamics of Plate Tectonics and Mantle Flow: From Local to Global Scales

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Secular change and the onset of plate tectonics on Earth

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

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Models of large-scale viscous flow in the Earth's mantle with constraints from mineral physics and surface observations

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Subduction kinematics and dynamic constraints

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Subduction-transition zone interaction: A review

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Why is terrestrial subduction one-sided?

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Kinematics of subduction and subduction‐induced flow in the upper mantle

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A review of deformation pattern templates in foreland basin systems and fold-and-thrust belts: Implications for the state of stress in the frontal regions of thrust wedges

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Reconciling surface plate motions with rapid three-dimensional mantle flow around a slab edge

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The hunting of the snArc

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Horizontal subduction zones, convergence velocity and the building of the Andes

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Influence of continental roots and asthenosphere on plate‐mantle coupling

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The evolution of plate tectonics

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

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Rheologic controls on slab dynamics

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India–Asia convergence driven by the subduction of the Greater Indian continent

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Mantle convection in the Middle East: Reconciling Afar upwelling, Arabia indentation and Aegean trench rollback

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Global trench migration velocities and slab migration induced upper mantle volume fluxes: Constraints to find an Earth reference frame based on minimizing viscous dissipation

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Major unconformities/termination of extension events and associated surfaces in the South China Seas: Review and implications for tectonic development

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Mantle conveyor beneath the Tethyan collisional belt

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Thermal evolution of the Earth: Secular changes and fluctuations of plate characteristics

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Metallogenic Provinces in an Evolving Geodynamic Framework

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The Geology and Metallogeny of Volcanic-Hosted Massive Sulfide Deposits: Variations through Geologic Time and with Tectonic Setting

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Dynamics of subduction and plate motion in laboratory experiments: Insights into the “plate tectonics” behavior of the Earth

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Quantifying the net slab pull force as a driving mechanism for plate tectonics

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Nubia-Arabia-Eurasia plate motions and the dynamics of Mediterranean and Middle East tectonics

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Tomographic filtering of high‐resolution mantle circulation models: Can seismic heterogeneity be explained by temperature alone?

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The thermal–mechanical evolution of crustal orogenic belts at convergent plate boundaries: A reappraisal of the orogenic cycle

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Dynamic models of downgoing plate-buoyancy driven subduction: Subduction motions and energy dissipation

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Kinematics of the southern Red Sea–Afar Triple Junction and implications for plate dynamics

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Detection of upper mantle flow associated with the African Superplume

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Stresses that drive the plates from below: Definitions, computational path, model optimization, and error analysis

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

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When and how did plate tectonics begin? Theoretical and empirical considerations

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Cyclical one-way continental rupture-drift in the Tethyan evolution: Subduction-driven plate tectonics

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Subduction dynamics as revealed by trench migration

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Upper plate controls on deep subduction, trench migrations and deformations at convergent margins

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What drives tectonic plates?

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Late Proterozoic plate tectonics and palaeogeography: a tale of two supercontinents, Rodinia and Pannotia

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Delamination in collisional orogens: Thermomechanical modeling

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Dynamics of plate bending at the trench and slab‐plate coupling

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The temporal evolution of plate driving forces: Importance of “slab suction” versus “slab pull” during the Cenozoic

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Thermal versus elastic heterogeneity in high‐resolution mantle circulation models with pyrolite composition: High plume excess temperatures in the lowermost mantle

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Trench motion, slab geometry and viscous stresses in subduction systems

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Seismological evidence for the earliest global subduction network at 2 Ga ago

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Initiation of the Andean orogeny by lower mantle subduction

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A mantle convection perspective on global tectonics

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Origin of the lithospheric stress field

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Geological, tomographic, kinematic and geodynamic constraints on the dynamics of sinking slabs

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Slab dip vs. lithosphere age: No direct function

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Mountain building and mantle dynamics

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A comparison of lithospheric thickness models

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Continuity and Episodicity in the Early Alpine Tectonic Evolution of the Western Carpathians: How Large‐Scale Processes Are Expressed by the Orogenic Architecture and Rock Record Data

Plašienka, D. (2018) · Tectonics · doi:10.1029/2017tc004779 · Cited by 124 · see citing works

Can Earth's rotation and tidal despinning drive plate tectonics?

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Great earthquakes and slab pull: interaction between seismic coupling and plate–slab coupling

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Multi‐scale dynamics and rheology of mantle flow with plates

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Polarized Plate Tectonics

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Complete Control of the Chemoselectivity in Catalytic Carbene Transfer Reactions from Ethyl Diazoacetate: An N-Heterocyclic Carbene−Cu System That Suppresses Diazo Coupling

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The role of water in connecting past and future episodes of subduction

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Reconciling strong slab pull and weak plate bending: The plate motion constraint on the strength of mantle slabs

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Archean plate tectonics, rise of Proterozoic supercontinentality and onset of regional, episodic stagnant-lid behavior

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Mantle Flow and Deforming Continents: From India‐Asia Convergence to Pacific Subduction

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Plate boundary segmentation in the northeastern Caribbean from geodetic measurements and Neogene geological observations

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One or Two Early Cretaceous Arc Systems in the Lhasa Terrane, Southern Tibet

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Subduction of oceanic lithosphere in the Alps: Selective and archetypal from (slow-spreading) oceans

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Assimilating lithosphere and slab history in 4-D Earth models

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3D palaeogeographic reconstructions of the Phanerozoic versus sea-level and Sr-ratio variations

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