Earth's thermal cycles and major geological events

• 作 者: Chun\'an TANG Tiantian CHEN Bin GONG
• 机 构: State Key Laboratory of Coastal and Offshore Engineering,Dalian University of Technology,Dalian 1160
• 出 处: 中国科学：地球科学（英文版）
• 发表日期: 2021年10期

In the study of global change since the 1980s,a new field of Earth system science has been established(Wang et al.,2019).However,compared with the rapid development of geoscience technology and the numerous associated achievements,the theoretical progress and breakthrough of core issues in geosciences have not advanced as much as expected.In the 1960s,based on the continental drift hy-pothesis of an individual scientist named Alfred L.Wegener and the seafloor spreading hypothesis based on the crude trench exploration by the US Navy,the theory of plate tec-tonics was proposed and has come to be regarded as a re-volution in Earth sciences.