The operation of ancient plate tectonics in the Archean (IMAGE)
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Archean plate tectonics would operate subsequent to the regime of stagnant lid tectonics, involving not only bottom-up processes such as mantle plumes and heat pipes but also top-down processes such as lithospheric foundering and subduction. These vertical processes were not unique to the Archean but persisted into the Phanerozoic.
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