Earth's continental crust has grown and been recycled throughout geologic history along
convergent plate margins. The main locus of continental crustal growth is in intra-oceanic …

Plate tectonics describes the horizontal motion of rigid lithospheric plates away from
midoceanic ridges and parallel to transforms, towards deep-sea trenches, where the …

Accretionary orogens form at intraoceanic and continental margin convergent plate
boundaries. They include the supra-subduction zone forearc, magmatic arc and back-arc …

This paper presents a plate-scale model for the Precambrian growth and evolution of the
North American continent. The core of the North American continent (Canadian shield) came …

Sustainable development and the transition to a clean-energy economy drives ever-
increasing demand for base metals, substantially outstripping the discovery rate of new …

The third edition of this widely acclaimed textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to
all aspects of global tectonics, and includes major revisions to reflect the most significant …

The global Archean record preserves ca. 35 large cratonic fragments and a less well defined
number of smaller slivers. Most Archean cratons display rifted margins of Proterozoic age …

This paper reports a new 1°× 1° global thermal model for the continental lithosphere (TC1).
Geotherms for continental terranes of different ages (> 3.6 Ga to present) constrained by …

The composition of the subcontinental lithospheric mantle (SCLM) varies in a systematic
way with the age of the last major tectonothermal event in the overlying crust. This secular …

Bulk-rock geochemical compositions of hypabyssal kimberlites, emplaced through the
Archaean Kaapvaal craton and Proterozoic Namaqua–Natal belt, are used to estimate close …