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Plate Tectonics: Origins and Implications
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[QUOTE="Ophiolite, post: 6106718, member: 23902"] I'm not really sure how you formed the impression of early plate tectonics on, as it does not match the consensus view or the evidence. Your comments on micro-continents is accurate, but they do not owe their genesis to plate tectonics. The presence of plate tectonics on Venus and Mars at any time is controversial. I ignored the NY Times article and went straight to the papers. It is clear from them that the onset of plate tectonics remains an area of active investigation with plenty of controversy, but I do not see in them anything that supports your assertion that "plate tectonics was active from formation on large planets like Earth, Mars and Venus." Perhaps you can provide citations for papers that set out such an argument. Those interested in the topic, but unwilling to wade through the dozen papers provided by the OP may find this comparatively recent paper a sound read. [URL='https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987117300233']Jean Bedard, Stagnant lids and mantle overturns, 2017[/URL]. While the author promotes a particular hypothesis he reviews (with many relevant references) a broad range of views on plate tectonics and other possible tectonic and magmatic mechanisms. [/QUOTE]
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