Subduction styles in the Precambrian: Insight from numerical experiments

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A free plate surface and weak oceanic crust produce single‐sided subduction on Earth (2012, background): “…although there is some evidence for Archean plate tectonics involving subduction, the style of mantle convection on a hotter early Earth is still debated and the form of plate tectonics during that time is unclear [Davies, 1992; de Wit, 1998; Sizova et al., 2010; van Hunen and van den Berg, 2008].”
Crustal evolution and the temporality of anorthosites (2017, background): “However, as the mantle began to shift to lower Urey ratios, and a secular cooling regime developed (between 3.0 and 2.7 Ga), Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities became less efficient, and plates began to regain strength and coherency (Rey and Coltice, 2008; Sizova et al., 2010).”