Plate tectonics
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The theory of Plate tectonics – developed from Alfred Wegener’s theory of Continental Drift to explain the movement of the continents – has become the prevailing theory underpinning our understanding of the Earth; how land forms, and the origin of extreme events. Plate tectonics explains why mountains form, earthquakes happen and why volcanoes occur where they do. Research in plate tectonics is broad, including constructive and destructive plate boundaries, intra-plate volcanism, and the origin and evolution of the lithosphere.
This Collection brings together the latest research across the breadth of the field of plate tectonics.
Editors
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Andrea Billi
Institute of Environmental Geology and Geoengineering, Italy
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Zheng-Xiang Li
Curtin University, Australia
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Masaki Yoshida
Japan Agency for Marine–Earth Science and Technology, Japan
Andrea Billi is presently Research Director at IGAG, National Research Council, Rome, Italy. He received a Laurea degree in Geology from Sapienza University of Rome in 1994 and a PhD in Geodynamics from Roma Tre University of Rome in 2001. His research interests are tectonics and structural geology. Dr Billi has been an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports since 2018.
Zheng-Xiang Li is a John Curtin Distinguished Professor at Curtin University, Western Australia. His research interests are mainly in regional to global tectonics and paleogeography, paleomagnetism, and geodynamics. He is also interested in the relationships between major tectonic events, large mineralisation systems and major environmental/climate changes. Prof Li has been an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports since 2019.
Masaki Yoshida is a Senior Scientist at the Japan Agency for Marine–Earth Science and Technology. His research activity is broad, especially focusing on thermal, compositional, and rheological evolutions of the 3D spherical mantle, driving force of supercontinental cycle and continental drift, mantle-core coupling, onset conditions and mechanisms of plate tectonics, behaviour of subducted plates in the deep mantle, geodetic inversion analyses for the mantle structure, and tectonic and geological conditions for intraslab earthquakes. Dr Yoshida has been an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports since 2015.
