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Intraplate continental basalts over the past billion years track cooling of the mantle and the onset of modern plate tectonics

Qian Chen, He Liu, Tim Johnson, Michael Hartnady, Christopher L. Kirkland, Yongjun Lu, Weidong Sun

2022Earth and Planetary Science Letters20 citationsDOI

Topics & Concepts

GeologyMantle (geology)LithosphereSubductionHotspot (geology)Mantle convectionPlate tectonicsEarth's internal heat budgetMantle wedgeArcheanGeochemistryTectonicsGeophysicsEarth sciencePaleontologyGeological and Geochemical AnalysisHigh-pressure geophysics and materialsearthquake and tectonic studies
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