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Geological Evidence for the Operation of Plate Tectonics throughout the Archean:Records from Archean Paleo-Plate Boundaries

查看全文 作　　者：Timothy [1,2]M.Kusky;Brian [2,3]F.Windley;Ali [4,2]Polat 高影响力作者 机构地区：[1]State Key Laboratory for Geological Processes and Mineral Resources,China University of Geosciences;[2]Center for Global Tectonics,School of Earth Sciences,China University of Geosciences;[3]Department of Geology,University of Leicester;[4]Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences,University of Windsor高影响力机构 出　　处：《Journal of Earth Science》索引2018年第29卷第6期,共13页高影响力期刊 基　　金：supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos.91755213,41672212,41572203);the MOST Special Fund (No.MSFGPMR02-3);the Opening Fund (Nos.GPMR201607,201701);the State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources,China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) 摘　　要：Plate tectonics describes the horizontal motion of rigid lithospheric plates away from midoceanic ridges and parallel to transforms, towards deep-sea trenches, where the oceanic lithosphere is subducted into the mantle. This process is the surface expression of modern-day heat loss from Earth. One of the biggest questions in Geosciences today is 'when did plate tectonics begin on Earth' with a wide range of theories based on an equally diverse set of constraints from geology, geochemistry, numerical modeling, or pure speculation. In this contribution, we turn the coin over and ask 'when was the last appearance in the geological record for which there is proof that plate tectonics did not operate on the planet as it does today'. We apply the laws of uniformitarianism to the rock record to ask how far back in time is the geologic record consistent with presently-operating kinematics of plate motion, before which some other mechanisms of planetary heat loss may have been in operation. Some have suggested that evidence shows that there was no plate tectonics before 800 Ma ago, others sometime before 1.8–2.7 Ga, or before 2.7 Ga. Still others recognize evidence for plate tectonics as early as 3.0 Ga, 3.3–3.5 Ga, the age of the oldest rocks, or in the Hadean before 4.3 Ga. A key undiscussed question is: why is there such a diversity of opinion about the age at which plate tectonics can be shown to not have operated, and what criteria are the different research groups using to define plate tectonics, and to recognize evidence of plate tectonics in very old rocks? Here, we present and evaluate data from the rock record, constrained by relevant geochemical-isotopic data, and conclude that the evidence shows indubitably that plate tectonics has been operating at least since the formation of the oldest rocks, albeit with some differences in processes, compositions, and products in earlier times of higher heat generation and mantle temperature, weaker oceanic lithosphere, hotter subduction zones caused by more slab-melt generation, and under different biological and atmospheric conditions. 关 键 词：地质学 平板 证据 操作 太古代 边界 水平运动 地球科学
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