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1. Crustal Assembly

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   Archean Thermal Regime and the Stagnant Lid
   During the Eoarchean Era, Earth is widely hypothesized to have operated under a Stagnant Lid tectonic regime, contrasting sharply with the modern mobile lid (plate tectonics) system. Under the stagnant lid model, the lithosphere was thought to be too thermally buoyant or mechanically rigid to undergo efficient recycling via conventional subduction.
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