前寒武纪地球动力学关注地球45.6-5.43亿年期间的沉积、岩浆、变质、变形、地幔和岩石圈的动力学机制,是永恒的地球科学前沿研究内容。现今研究积累表明:早前寒武纪构造还难以完全用板块构造理论给予说明,板块构造起源的时间虽然可能因地而异,但主流认识是27-21亿年期间,华北克拉通也是如此。板块构造出现之前的前板块构造体制也业已提出了多种认识:地幔柱理论、地幔翻转、重力构造、小板块构造等,其中重力构造被认为主要发生在冥古宙的地球层圈分异阶段,尤其是45.4-44.5亿年间地核形成和地幔的岩浆海阶段。迄今,对于地壳层次的卵形构造成因,也有8种模式之多:底辟构造、中下地壳流动构造、水平渠道流、多期褶皱叠加构造、变形分解构造、龟裂-拗沉俯冲构造、卵形构造的多层Top-down流变构造、岩基侵入-挠曲分解构造等,它们皆可出现在挤压、伸展、走滑构造背景下。无论是板块构造还是前板块构造阶段,全球构造过程似乎都是Top-down机制。
Precambrian geodynamics focuses on kinetics mechanism of sedimentation, magmatic, metamorphic and deformation, mantle and lithosphere of the Earth during 4.56 - 0. 543 Ga, being the eternal frontier and research focus of Earth Science. The present-day study shows that the early Precambrian tectonics is difficult to adopt the theory of plate tectonics to be interpreted reasonably; origin time of plate tectonics through the Earth history may vary at various positions, but the mainstream understanding is that the plate tectonics regime occurred during 2. 7 2. 1 Ga, and so is the North China Craton. The pre-plate regimes appearing before plate tectonics has been proposed, including many kinds of understanding: mantle plume, mantle overturn, gravitational tectonics, and platelets, of which the gravitational tectonics was considered at the stage of layering or stratification on the Earth in the Hadean, especially 4.54 - 4.45 Ga of the core formation and mantle magma ocean. So far, for the origin of oval structures of crustal levels, there are 8 original models: diapirism, middle-lower crust flow, horizontal channel flow, polyphase fold superposition, deformation partitioning, cracking-sag subduction, multilayer top-down rheological flow and batholith intrusion-derived buckling-partitioning, they all can appear under extension, compression and strike slipping backgrounds. No matter what both plate tectonics and pre-plate regimes, global tectonic process seems to he top-down mechanism.