Life needs more than water alone. Recent discoveries suggest that plate tectonics has played a critical role in nourishing life on Earth. The findings carry major consequences for the search for life ...

Three of the most widely discussed sets of regional correlations are those concerning the continental blocks of South Georgia, the Falkland Islands and the Ellsworth Mountains (Fig. 1). Despite their ...

Plate tectonics is a key geological process operating on Earth, shaping its surface, strongly influencing its deep structure and making it unique among the rocky planets in the Solar System. How plate ...

Schematic tectonic evolution model for the Wutai Complex during Late Archean (a) Subduction setting (~2543 Ma); shows subduction-related metasomatic agents which influenced the lithological and ...