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The assessment of crust/mantle recycling processes requires a detailed knowledge of the time-dependent, three-dimensional dynamic behavior of the earth as a whole system including physical and chemical properties of the components involved. Unfortunately, plate tectonics has so far failed to provide us with such a dynamic picture. Plate tectonics may be described as a kinematical description of the thin spherical outer shell of the earth. Even the driving mechanism of the plates still remains an unanswered question. As repeatedly pointed out, plate tectonics also cannot satisfactorily account for continental deformation.
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Gülen, L. (1989). From Plate Tectonics to Global Domain Tectonics. In: Hart, S.R., Gülen, L. (eds) Crust/Mantle Recycling at Convergence Zones. NATO ASI Series, vol 258. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0895-6_17
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