Origin of Small Tectonic Plates
Claire Mallard1,2, Nicolas Coltice2, Maria Seton3, Dietmar Müller4 and Paul Tackley5, (1)University of Lyon, Villeurbanne, France, (2)LGLTPE Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon : Terre, Planètes et Environnement, Villeurbanne Cedex, France, (3)The University of Sydney, EarthByte Group, School of Geosciences, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (4)University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (5)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland