Abstract for keynote address at International Geological Congress 2004, post-congress workshop PWO 09 Fluid-enforced eclogitization and associated sub-crustal gravity-driven delamination of the felsic crust, giving rise to isostatic subsidence and basin formation, was already in operation during Precambrian times. This started a process of gradual thinning and chemical alteration of the presumed thick pan-global primitive … Continue reading Global Wrench Tectonics and The Phanerozoic Earth