When crust comes of age: on the chemical evolution of Archaean, felsic continental crust by crustal drip tectonics

Plate tectonics and continental basaltic geochemistry throughout Earth history

(2018) Brenhin Keller et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Estimating the formation age distribution of continental crust by unmixing zircon ages

(2018) Jun Korenaga   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Evidence of Enriched, Hadean Mantle Reservoir from 4.2-4.0 Ga zircon xenocrysts from Paleoarchean TTGs of the Singhbhum Craton, Eastern India

(2018) Trisrota Chaudhuri et al.   Scientific Reports

A non-zircon Hf isotope record in Archean black shales from the Pilbara craton confirms changing crustal dynamics ca. 3 Ga ago

(2018) Yona Nebel-Jacobsen et al.   Scientific Reports

Geological archive of the onset of plate tectonics

(2018) Peter A. Cawood et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Continental crust formation on early Earth controlled by intrusive magmatism

(2017) A. B. Rozel et al.   NATURE

Earth’s first stable continents did not form by subduction

(2017) Tim E. Johnson et al.   NATURE

Emergence of silicic continents as the lower crust peels off on a hot plate-tectonic Earth

(2017) Priyadarshi Chowdhury et al.   Nature Geoscience

Boninite-like intraplate magmas from Manihiki Plateau require ultra-depleted and enriched source components

(2017) Roman Golowin et al.   Nature Communications

Melting-induced crustal production helps plate tectonics on Earth-like planets

(2016) Diogo L. Lourenço et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Petrogenesis and Geochemistry of Archean Komatiites

(2016) Paolo A. Sossi et al.   JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY

Archean upper crust transition from mafic to felsic marks the onset of plate tectonics

(2016) M. Tang et al.   SCIENCE

The thinning of subcontinental lithosphere: The roles of plume impact and metasomatic weakening

(2015) Hongliang Wang et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Plate tectonics on the Earth triggered by plume-induced subduction initiation

(2015) T. V. Gerya et al.   NATURE

The Neoarchean transition between medium- and high-K granitoids: Clues from the Southern São Francisco Craton (Brazil)

(2015) Federico Farina et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Generation of felsic crust in the Archean: A geodynamic modeling perspective

(2015) E. Sizova et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Hafnium and iron isotopes in early Archean komatiites record a plume-driven convection cycle in the Hadean Earth

(2014) Oliver Nebel et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Plume-induced crustal convection: 3D thermomechanical model and implications for the origin of novae and coronae on Venus

(2014) T.V. Gerya   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Spreading continents kick-started plate tectonics

(2014) Patrice F. Rey et al.   NATURE

Initiation and Evolution of Plate Tectonics on Earth: Theories and Observations

(2013) Jun Korenaga   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Stagnant-lid tectonics in early Earth revealed by 142Nd variations in late Archean rocks

(2013) Vinciane Debaille et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Lu–Hf isotopic memory of plume–lithosphere interaction in the source of layered mafic intrusions, Windimurra Igneous Complex, Yilgarn Craton, Australia

(2013) O. Nebel et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Eoarchean within-plate basalts from southwest Greenland

(2013) F.E. Jenner et al.   GEOLOGY

Delamination and recycling of Archaean crust caused by gravitational instabilities

(2013) Tim E. Johnson et al.   Nature Geoscience

Constraints from experimental melting of amphibolite on the depth of formation of garnet-rich restites, and implications for models of Early Archean crustal growth

(2013) Chao Zhang et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Moho and magmatic underplating in continental lithosphere

(2013) H. Thybo et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Continental growth and the crustal record

(2013) Chris Hawkesworth et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

The continental record and the generation of continental crust

(2012) P.A. Cawood et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Short-term episodicity of Archaean plate tectonics

(2012) Jean-François Moyen et al.   GEOLOGY

Phanerozoic sanukitoids from Caledonian Scotland: Implications for Archean subduction

(2012) Mike Fowler et al.   GEOLOGY

Terrestrial planet evolution in the stagnant-lid regime: Size effects and the formation of self-destabilizing crust

(2012) Joseph G. O’Rourke et al.   ICARUS

Statistical geochemistry reveals disruption in secular lithospheric evolution about 2.5 Gyr ago

(2012) C. Brenhin Keller et al.   NATURE

Long-lived, autochthonous development of the Archean Murchison Domain, and implications for Yilgarn Craton tectonics

(2012) Martin J. Van Kranendonk et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

182W Evidence for Long-Term Preservation of Early Mantle Differentiation Products

(2012) M. Touboul et al.   SCIENCE

A Change in the Geodynamics of Continental Growth 3 Billion Years Ago

(2012) B. Dhuime et al.   SCIENCE

The building blocks of continental crust: Evidence for a major change in the tectonic setting of continental growth at the end of the Archean

(2011) Kent C. Condie et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

The sanukitoid series: magmatism at the Archaean–Proterozoic transition

(2010) Hervé Martin et al.   Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

The geochemistry of Archaean plagioclase-rich granites as a marker of source enrichment and depth of melting

(2010) J.-F. Moyen et al.   Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Highly depleted Hadean mantle reservoirs in the sources of early Archean arc-like rocks, Isua supracrustal belt, southern West Greenland

(2010) J. Elis Hoffmann et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Continent Formation in the Archean and Chemical Evolution of the Cratonic Lithosphere: Melt-Rock Reaction Experiments at 3-4 GPa and Petrogenesis of Archean Mg-Diorites (Sanukitoids)

(2010) R. P. Rapp et al.   JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY

Granite-cored domes and gold mineralisation: Architectural and geodynamic controls around the Archaean Scotia-Kanowna Dome, Kalgoorlie Terrane, Western Australia

(2010) B.K. Davis et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Formation of Paleoarchean continental crust through infracrustal melting of enriched basalt

(2009) R.H. Smithies et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Discrimination and origin of the sanukitoid series: Geochemical constraints from the Neoarchean western Karelian Province (Finland)

(2009) E. Heilimo et al.   LITHOS

Oceanic nickel depletion and a methanogen famine before the Great Oxidation Event

(2009) Kurt O. Konhauser et al.   NATURE

Linked magma ocean solidification and atmospheric growth for Earth and Mars

(2008) L.T. Elkins-Tanton   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Early (≥4.5 Ga) formation of terrestrial crust: Lu–Hf, δ18O, and Ti thermometry results for Hadean zircons

(2008) T. Mark Harrison et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Archean plate tectonics, rise of Proterozoic supercontinentality and onset of regional, episodic stagnant-lid behavior

(2008) W.G. Ernst   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Neodymium-142 Evidence for Hadean Mafic Crust

(2008) J. O'Neil et al.   SCIENCE

Geochemical fingerprinting of oceanic basalts with applications to ophiolite classification and the search for Archean oceanic crust

(2007) Julian A. Pearce   LITHOS

Plate tectonics on the early Earth: Limitations imposed by strength and buoyancy of subducted lithosphere

(2007) Jeroen van Hunen et al.   LITHOS