The origin of Earth’s first continents and the onset of plate tectonics

The composition of mantle plumes and the deep Earth

(2016) Alan R. Hastie et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Early Archaean tectonics and mantle redox recorded in Witwatersrand diamonds

(2016) Katie A. Smart et al.   Nature Geoscience

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

(2016) M. Tang et al.   SCIENCE

Can Fractional Crystallization, Mixing and Assimilation Processes be Responsible for Jamaican-type Adakites? Implications for Generating Eoarchaean Continental Crust

(2015) A. R. Hastie et al.   JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY

Emergence of modern continental crust about 3 billion years ago

(2015) Bruno Dhuime et al.   Nature Geoscience

Metamorphism and melting of picritic crust in the early Earth

(2013) Karen Ziaja et al.   LITHOS

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

Hydrogen-Nitrogen Greenhouse Warming in Earth's Early Atmosphere

(2013) R. Wordsworth et al.   SCIENCE

Water-present eclogite melting to produce Earth's early felsic crust

(2012) Angelique Laurie et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Hadean greenstones from the Nuvvuagittuq fold belt and the origin of the Earth's early continental crust

(2012) John Adam et al.   GEOLOGY

Forty years of TTG research

(2012) Jean-François Moyen et al.   LITHOS

Waves and weathering at 3.7 Ga: Geological evidence for an equitable terrestrial climate under the faint early Sun

(2011) A. P. Nutman et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

Mechanisms of Archean crust formation inferred from high-precision HFSE systematics in TTGs

(2011) J. Elis Hoffmann et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Archean mafic–ultramafic volcanic landmasses and their effect on ocean–atmosphere chemistry

(2010) Balz S. Kamber   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Thermal history of the Earth and its petrological expression

(2010) Claude Herzberg et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS