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Plate Tectonics

Plate Tectonics is a unifying geological theory that describes the large-scale motion and interaction of Earth's lithospheric plates, driven by mantle convection, which accounts for the distribution of continents, ocean basins, earthquakes, volcanoes, and mountain building over geologic time.

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Early Proterozoic climates and plate motions inferred from major element chemistry of lutites

H.W. Nesbitt, Grant M. Young · Nature · 1982 · 6.6K citations

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Geologic Evolution of the Himalayan-Tibetan Orogen

An Yin, T. Mark Harrison · Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences · 2000 · 6K citations

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Tectonic discrimination of granitoids

P.D. Maniar, Philip M. Piccoli · Geological Society of America Bulletin · 1989 · 4.6K citations

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Cenozoic Tectonics of Asia: Effects of a Continental Collision: Features of recent continental tectonics in Asia can be interpreted as results of the India-Eurasia collision

Péter Molnár, P. Tapponnier · Science · 1975 · 4.5K citations

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Oblique Stepwise Rise and Growth of the Tibet Plateau

Paul Tapponnier, Xu Zhiqin, Françoise Roger et al. · Science · 2001 · 3.9K citations

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    M. Santosh

    China University of Geosciences (Beijing), China

    344 publications · 33.3K citations

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    Guochun Zhao

    University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China

    153 publications · 27.9K citations

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    R. Dietmar Müller

    The University of Sydney, Australia

    162 publications · 26.3K citations

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    Min Sun

    University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China

    156 publications · 22.9K citations

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    Sierd Cloetingh

    Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

    181 publications · 14.2K citations

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    197 h-index

    7.8K publications

    592.6K citations

  2. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    193 h-index

    7.1K publications

    535.1K citations

  3. Institute of Geology and Geophysics

    Beijing, China

    161 h-index

    3.8K publications

    304.8K citations

  4. Planetary Science Institute

    Tucson, United States

    155 h-index

    1.2K publications

    203.4K citations

  5. Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences

    Beijing, China

    154 h-index

    3.7K publications

    309.6K citations

  6. Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

    Sparkill, United States

    147 h-index

    1.3K publications

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  7. United States Geological Survey

    Reston, United States

    143 h-index

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  8. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

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  1. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

    JGR · 2.6K publications · 310.5K citations

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  3. Earth and Planetary Science Letters

    2.3K publications · 220.4K citations

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  4. Nature

    846 publications · 138.1K citations

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  5. Tectonics

    2.2K publications · 187.3K citations

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