The Key Role of Plate Tectonics for Accelerating the Evolution
of Complex Life: Quest for the Missing Extraterrestrial Civilizations
by Taras Gerya and Robert Stern, EGU 2023
[ui.adsabs.harvard.edu]

#EGU23 PC3 Humans, hominoids and extraterrestials
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 Time interval in video: 2:00 - 7:20

Basic premises:

1. Civilizations can only be expected on planets with oceans,
continents, and plate tectonics

2. Such planets most likely form a very small (<<1 percent)
of habitable planets with primitive life


Co-Evolution of Life and Plate Tectonics #gsa2021 #utdgss
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Another lecture that touches on this is "Segmentation of subducting slabs and
its implication for the onset of modern plate tectonics" by Dr. Taras Gerya." It will
eventually be posted to "Virtual Seminar in Precambrian Geology" at

[www.youtube.com]

Yours,

Paul H.

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner, Act 1, Scene III, Requiem for a Nun (1951)



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