Evolution of Plate Tectonics on Earth since the Mid-Mesoarchean was Controlled by Sedimentary Fluxes from Continents to Oceans and Mantle Temperature

Stephan V Sobolev, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Geodynamic Modelling Section, Potsdam, Germany and Michael Brown, University of Maryland, College Park, Laboratory for Crustal Petrology, Department of Geology, College Park, United States