Oxygen isotopes trace the origins of Earth’s earliest continental crust

Generation of Eoarchean continental crust from altered mafic rocks derived from a chondritic mantle: The ∼3.72 Ga Aktash gneisses, Tarim Craton (NW China)

(2020) Rongfeng Ge et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Generation and maturation of Mesoarchean continental crust in the Anshan Complex, North China Craton

(2020) Ya-Fei Wang et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

A new 3.59 Ga magmatic suite and a chondritic source to the east Pilbara Craton

(2019) Andreas Petersson et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Time-space evolution of an archean craton: A Hf-isotope window into continent formation

(2019) D.R. Mole et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Primitive Helium is Sourced from Seismically Slow Regions in the Lowermost Mantle

(2019) C.D. Williams et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Eoarchaean tectonics: New constraints from high pressure-temperature experiments and mass balance modelling

(2019) Alan R. Hastie et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Early continental crust generated by reworking of basalts variably silicified by seawater

(2019) Luc André et al.   Nature Geoscience

No evidence for high-pressure melting of Earth’s crust in the Archean

(2019) Robert H. Smithies et al.   Nature Communications

Two distinct origins for Archean greenstone belts

(2018) R. Hugh Smithies et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Earth's oldest stable crust in the Pilbara Craton formed by cyclic gravitational overturns

(2018) Daniel Wiemer et al.   Nature Geoscience

Stagnant lids and mantle overturns: Implications for Archaean tectonics, magmagenesis, crustal growth, mantle evolution, and the start of plate tectonics

(2018) Jean H. Bédard   Geoscience Frontiers

Hydrothermally-altered mafic crust as source for early Earth TTG: Pb/Hf/O isotope and trace element evidence in zircon from TTG of the Eoarchean Saglek Block, N. Labrador

(2018) A. Vezinet et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The inception of plate tectonics: a record of failure

(2018) Craig O'Neill et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

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

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

Earth dynamics and the development of plate tectonics

(2018) Chris J. Hawkesworth et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

The effect of weathering on U–Th–Pb and oxygen isotope systems of ancient zircons from the Jack Hills, Western Australia

(2017) R.T. Pidgeon et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Earth’s first stable continents did not form by subduction

(2017) Tim E. Johnson et al.   NATURE

Early Earth mantle heterogeneity revealed by light oxygen isotopes of Archaean komatiites

(2017) Benjamin L. Byerly et al.   Nature Geoscience

Processes of crust formation in the early Earth imaged through Hf isotopes from the East Pilbara Terrane

(2017) Nicholas J. Gardiner et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

3.5-Ga hydrothermal fields and diamictites in the Barberton Greenstone Belt--Paleoarchean crust in cold environments

(2016) M. J. de Wit et al.   Science Advances

Oxygen isotopes in Pilbara Craton zircons support a global increase in crustal recycling at 3.2Ga

(2015) Martin J. Van Kranendonk et al.   LITHOS

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

(2015) E. Sizova et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Evidence for primordial water in Earth’s deep mantle

(2015) Lydia J. Hallis et al.   SCIENCE

Burial and exhumation during Archean sagduction in the East Pilbara Granite-Greenstone Terrane

(2014) C. François et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Why Archaean TTG cannot be generated by MORB melting in subduction zones

(2014) Hervé Martin et al.   LITHOS

Interaction of weathering solutions with oxygen and U–Pb isotopic systems of radiation-damaged zircon from an Archean granite, Darling Range Batholith, Western Australia

(2013) R. T. Pidgeon et al.   CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

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

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

Delamination and recycling of Archaean crust caused by gravitational instabilities

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

The oldest zircons of Africa—Their U–Pb–Hf–O isotope and trace element systematics, and implications for Hadean to Archean crust–mantle evolution

(2013) Armin Zeh et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

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

(2012) B. Dhuime et al.   SCIENCE

The origin of high δ18O zircons: marbles, megacrysts, and metamorphism

(2011) Aaron J. Cavosie et al.   CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

Petrological Constraints on Crystallization Conditions of Mesoarchean Sanukitoid Rocks, Southeastern Amazonian Craton, Brazil

(2010) M. A. de Oliveira et al.   JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY

Formation of Paleoarchean continental crust through infracrustal melting of enriched basalt

(2009) R.H. Smithies et al.   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

Zircon M257 - a Homogeneous Natural Reference Material for the Ion Microprobe U-Pb Analysis of Zircon

(2008) Lutz Nasdala et al.   GEOSTANDARDS AND GEOANALYTICAL RESEARCH