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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2026

Ancient felsic sediments recycled through the deep mantle by plate tectonics.

Bradley J Peters, Marc C Halfar, Courtney J Rundhaug, Paterno R Castillo, Maria Schönbächler

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Bradley J PetersInstitute of Geochemistry and Petrology, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, ETH Zürich 8092 Zürich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-2249-6927
Marc C HalfarInstitute of Geochemistry and Petrology, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, ETH Zürich 8092 Zürich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-1031-9296
Courtney J RundhaugInstitute of Geochemistry and Petrology, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, ETH Zürich 8092 Zürich, Switzerland.
Paterno R CastilloScripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093.ORCID 0000-0001-6140-7929
Maria SchönbächlerInstitute of Geochemistry and Petrology, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, ETH Zürich 8092 Zürich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-4304-214X

Funding

ETH Zurich/Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions COFUND 18-1 FEL-28Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (SNF) 200021_208079Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (SNF) PZ00P2_186064
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Abstract

Many petrological, geodynamical, and geochemical perspectives have offered circumstantial evidence for either an early onset of plate tectonics in the first 10% of Earth's history or a late onset after the great oxidation event (2.5 Ga ago). This calls into question over what timescales plate tectonics have influenced terrestrial geological and geochemical processes. We present geochemical data from the products of ancient crustal subduction, which were recycled into the deep mantle and then tapped by the modern Marquesas volcanic hotspot. We demonstrate that these materials have distinct short-lived radiogenic (

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early Earth processesmantle geochemistrymantle plumesplate tectonics

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PMID42012948
PMCPMC13123832

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