Chinese scholars and overseas collaborators have made progress in the study of plate tectonic evolution

The study took the 518 Ma Mariana-type (also known as IBM-type) oceanic initial subduction ophiolite newly defined in the Altyn orogenic belt on the northern margin of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau as the entry point, and summarized the numerous East Asian continents located on the northern margin of the Gondwana continent.
The temporal and spatial changes of geological events recorded in the block suggest that the initial subduction of the main ocean basin of the original Tethys Ocean occurred at 530-520 Ma, which corresponds to the slab retreat in the subduction zone on the southern and western margins of the Gondwana continent.
This suggests that a global tectonic linkage event occurred in 530-520 Ma
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Plate tectonics is the methodology that governs the field of earth sciences, and it is also the key driving force that drives the evolution of the earth into a living planet
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Figure 1 The evolution of the characteristic indexes of the earth's multi-sphere system over time

Figure 2 530-520 Ma Gondwana ancient continent reconstruction and its peripheral subduction system distribution