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• Select Teaching Plate Tectonics to Diverse Students Using the 5E and 5R Instructional Model.

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  Teaching Plate Tectonics to Diverse Students Using the 5E and 5R Instructional Model.

  Authors:Naomi Gutierrez, Molly H. Weinburgh, and Cecilia SilvaFrom:Science Scope (Vol. 46, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept-Oct 20222,142 words Article 1230LI (Naomi) teach at a sixth-grade center in a large district with a school population classified as 92% at risk of noncompletion, 71% English language learners, 93% Hispanic, and 5% African American. Thus, when planning a...
• Select Hadean/Eoarchean tectonics and mantle mixing induced by impacts: a three-dimensional study.

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  Hadean/Eoarchean tectonics and mantle mixing induced by impacts: a three-dimensional study.

  Authors:Xavier Borgeat and Paul J. TackleyFrom:Progress in Earth and Planetary Science (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  July 12, 20229,272 words Article 1400LThe timing of the onset of plate tectonics on Earth remains a topic of strong debate, as does the tectonic mode that preceded modern plate tectonics. Understanding possible tectonic modes and transitions between them is...
• Select Identification of marine magnetic anomalies based on the sliding window curve similarity method.

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  Identification of marine magnetic anomalies based on the sliding window curve similarity method.

  Authors:Mingming Wang, Jing Cao, Jianlou Li, and Xianghong LiuFrom:Earth, Planets and Space (Vol. 74, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  May 27, 20226,202 words Report 1630LMarine magnetic anomalies play an essential role in plate tectonics and geodynamics. The conventional method to identify marine magnetic anomalies is to visually compare synthetic and observed magnetic anomaly profiles,...
• Select Research Data from China Geology Survey Update Understanding of Chemicals and Chemistry (Controls On Early Miocene Carbonate and Siliciclastic Deposition In Eastern Java and South Makassar Straits, Indonesia).

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  Research Data from China Geology Survey Update Understanding of Chemicals and Chemistry (Controls On Early Miocene Carbonate and Siliciclastic Deposition In Eastern Java and South Makassar Straits, Indonesia).

  From:Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week

  May 21, 2022508 words Article 1500L2022 MAY 21 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- Current study results on Chemicals and Chemistry have been published. According to news reporting out of Qingdao,...
• Select Destabilization of Long‐Lived Hadean Protocrust and the Onset of Pervasive Hydrous Melting at 3.8 Ga.

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  Destabilization of Long‐Lived Hadean Protocrust and the Onset of Pervasive Hydrous Melting at 3.8 Ga.

  Authors:Nadja Drabon, Benjamin L. Byerly, Gary R. Byerly, Joseph L. Wooden, Michael Wiedenbeck, John W. Valley, et al.From:AGU Advances (Vol. 3, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 202212,733 words Report 1470LAbstract: The nature of Earth's earliest crust and crustal processes remain unresolved questions in Precambrian geology. While some hypotheses suggest that plate tectonics began in the Hadean, others suggest that the...
• Select ESTABLISHING THE CORRELATION BETWEEN THE CHANGES OF ABSOLUTE ROTATION POLES OF MAJOR TECTONIC PLATES BASED ON CONTINUOUS GNSS STATIONS DATA.

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  ESTABLISHING THE CORRELATION BETWEEN THE CHANGES OF ABSOLUTE ROTATION POLES OF MAJOR TECTONIC PLATES BASED ON CONTINUOUS GNSS STATIONS DATA.

  Author:Ihor SavchynFrom:Acta Geodynamica et Geromaterialia (Vol. 19, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 20225,224 words Report 1570LThe purpose of the work is to establish the correlation between the change of absolute rotation poles of major tectonic plates based on continuous GNSS stations data. The work investigates 2804 continuous GNSS stations...
• Select Models for Developing Explanations of Earth's Dynamic Plate System.

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  Models for Developing Explanations of Earth's Dynamic Plate System.

  Authors:Amy Pallant, Trudi Lord, Sarah Pryputniewicz, and Scott McdonaldFrom:Science Scope (Vol. 45, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  March-April 20223,181 words Article 1510LThe Ring of Fire is the location of 75% of the world's volcanoes and 90% of its earthquakes. They outline the Pacific Ocean and reveal the zones where tectonic plates meet, including the Eurasian, North American,...
• Select Reconstructing the southern North Atlantic Ocean back through time using deformable plate tectonic models.

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  Reconstructing the southern North Atlantic Ocean back through time using deformable plate tectonic models.

  Authors:Michael King and J. Kim WelfordFrom:Atlantic Geoscience (Vol. 58) Peer-Reviewed

  Annual 2022314 words Report, Author abstr... 1670LThe offshore rifted margins of the southern North Atlantic Ocean have been demonstrated to have a complex present-day crustal structure comprised of sedimentary basins, inherited structures, variable basement affinities,...
• Select Dynamic slab segmentation due to brittle-ductile damage in the outer rise.

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  Dynamic slab segmentation due to brittle-ductile damage in the outer rise.

  Authors:T. V. Gerya, D. Bercovici, and T. W. BeckerFrom:Nature (Vol. 599, Issue 7884) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 11, 20219,536 words Report 1760LSubduction is the major plate driving force, and the strength of the subducting plate controls many aspects of the thermochemical evolution of Earth. Each subducting plate experiences intense normal faulting.sup.1-9...
• Select Cumulate gabbros in the South Andaman Island ophiolite suite (India): their bearing on the tectonic setting.

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  Cumulate gabbros in the South Andaman Island ophiolite suite (India): their bearing on the tectonic setting.

  Authors:Salim Akhtar, Priyanka Negi, and Ashima SaikiaFrom:Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences (Vol. 58, Issue 11) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 202111,282 words Report 1330LThe Andaman ophiolite of southeastern India is located on the outer arc of the Andaman-Java subduction zone. It is represented by thrust slices formed in the Mesozoic Neo-Tethys Ocean. Lithologically, it consists of...
• Select Older orogens cooled slower: new constraints on Orosirian tectonics from garnet diffusion modeling of metamorphic timescales, Jiaobei terrain, North China Craton.

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  Older orogens cooled slower: new constraints on Orosirian tectonics from garnet diffusion modeling of metamorphic timescales, Jiaobei terrain, North China Craton.

  Authors:Yi Zou, Qiuli Li, Xu Chu, Mingguo Zhai, Ross N. Mitchell, Lei Zhao, et al.From:Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (Vol. 176, Issue 11) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 202114,048 words Article 1430LMetamorphic timescales harbor crucial information for quantifying lithospheric processes and identifying tectonic regimes. The Orosirian Period is known for global orogenesis during 2.1â1.8 Ga that possibly signifies the...
• Select Trench and drilling investigation of the Median Tectonic Line in Shikoku, southwest Japan: implications for fault geometry.

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  Trench and drilling investigation of the Median Tectonic Line in Shikoku, southwest Japan: implications for fault geometry.

  Authors:Masahiro Miyawaki and Arito SakaguchiFrom:Earth, Planets and Space (Vol. 73, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 21, 20217,058 words Letter to the editor 1310LThe Median Tectonic Line (MTL) is a thousand-kilometer-long fault that extends across southwest Japan. Near the Nyugawa region of Shikoku, the MTL comprises (i) a low-angle inactive terrane boundary fault (the MTLTB)...
• Select Plate tectonics fuel a vast underground ecosystem.

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  Plate tectonics fuel a vast underground ecosystem.

  From:Oceanus (Vol. 56, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Fall 2021250 words Brief article 1300LViolent continental collisions may not seem like the ingredients for life. But a new study co-authored by Peter Barry, assistant scientist at WHOI, unveils a large microbial ecosystem deep within the Earth, fueled by...
• Select Can seismic data mules protect us from the next big one?

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  Can seismic data mules protect us from the next big one?

  Author:Evan LubofskyFrom:Oceanus (Vol. 56, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Fall 2021841 words Article 1370LIt was the day after Christmas, 2004, when all hell broke loose below the Indian Ocean. Two of the Earth's tectonic plates that had been locked together for over a hundred years suddenly became unstuck. Moments later, a...
• Select Estimating the lithospheric flexure of a plate with non-uniform flexural rigidity: a quantitative modelling approach.

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  Estimating the lithospheric flexure of a plate with non-uniform flexural rigidity: a quantitative modelling approach.

  Authors:Ming-Ju Xu, Zhao-Cai Wu, Fei Ji, Ai-Guo Ruan, Chun-Feng Li, and Jin-Yao GaoFrom:Earth, Planets and Space (Vol. 73, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 27, 20216,821 words Report 1740LLithospheric deformation is a fundamental process in plate tectonics. It is, therefore, critical to determine how the lithosphere responds to geological loads to better understand tectonic processes. The lithosphere can...
• Select PLATE TECTONICS IN PORTUGUESE AND SPANISH SCIENCE TEXTBOOKS: FROM THE 1960s TO THE 1980s.

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  PLATE TECTONICS IN PORTUGUESE AND SPANISH SCIENCE TEXTBOOKS: FROM THE 1960s TO THE 1980s.

  Author:Bento CavadasFrom:Earth Sciences History (Vol. 40, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  July 202112,128 words Report 1610LPlate tectonics caused a revolution within earth sciences which then was transposed into science textbooks. The main objective of this paper is to explore how plate tectonics influenced Portuguese and Spanish science...
• Select The Chicken, the Egg, and Plate Tectonics: Whole-planet models could upend our view of how geophysical forces shape the Earth.

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  The Chicken, the Egg, and Plate Tectonics: Whole-planet models could upend our view of how geophysical forces shape the Earth.

  Author:Nicolas ColticeFrom:American Scientist (Vol. 109, Issue 3)

  May-June 20215,079 words Article 1320LTen years ago, I took a fateful train trip from my home in Lyon, France, through the Alps, mountains forged by Earth's powerful forces over millions of years, to Zurich, Switzerland. At the time, my thoughts weren't on...
• Select Ancient continental blocks soldered from below.

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  Ancient continental blocks soldered from below.

  Authors:Stephen Foley and Craig O'NeillFrom:Nature (Vol. 592, Issue 7856) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 29, 20211,438 words Report 1500LA study of melting in the mantle under northern Canada more than one billion years ago shows that the oldest blocks of continent not only break apart but can also be repaired by the gluing action of major melting...
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  Plates.

  Author:Pat UnderwoodFrom:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 62, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 2021 Poem, Brief article My cousin emails a picture of New Zealand's Emerald Lake in the crater of an extinct volcano, a blue puddle in a pile of snow, and it's mesmerizing. He's there skiing in July, hot enough to melt his boots when steam...
• Select Submarine terraces reveal Late Quaternary tectonic deformation in the intermediate zone between the island shelf and rift zone of the middle part of the Nanseishoto Islands, southwest Japan.

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  Submarine terraces reveal Late Quaternary tectonic deformation in the intermediate zone between the island shelf and rift zone of the middle part of the Nanseishoto Islands, southwest Japan.

  Author:Hideaki GotoFrom:Earth, Planets and Space (Vol. 73, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 19, 20215,952 words Report 1560LLate Quaternary tectonic deformation of coastal areas is usually examined based on the height distribution of paleo-shorelines observed on marine terraces. However, it is difficult to examine deformation along the...