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
[www.youtube.com]
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
[www.youtube.com]

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, Virtual Seminar in
Precambrian Geology
[www.youtube.com]

More videos in "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)



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/14/2024 11:51AM by Paul H..