Geological evolution of the North China Craton in the first billion years of Earth's history

The Eoarchean Muzidian gneiss complex: Long-lived Hadean crustal components in the building of Archean continents

(2023) Da Wang et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

SHRIMP U-Pb zircon dating and geochemistry of the 3.8–3.1 Ga Hujiamiao Complex in Anshan (North China Craton) and the significance of the trondhjemites for early crustal genesis

(2023) Yusheng Wan et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Structural restoration of an Eo-Mesoarchean (3.8–2.9Ga) terrane, Eastern China, dissected by the Tanlu fault zone

(2022) Zhonghua Tian et al.   JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY

A wet heterogeneous mantle creates a habitable world in the Hadean

(2022) Yoshinori Miyazaki et al.   NATURE

Crustal growth of the north china craton at ca. 2.5 Ga

(2022) Peng Liou et al.   Science Bulletin

Fe isotopic evidence that “high pressure” TTGs formed at low pressure

(2022) Peng Liou et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Modeling the chemical heterogeneity of tonalite-trondhjemite-granodiorite intrusive suites

(2022) Lucie Mathieu   LITHOS

Archean crustal evolution of the Saglek-Hebron Complex, Northern Labrador, revealed from coupled 147−146Sm-143−142Nd systematics

(2022) Benjamin Wasilewski et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Formation and evolution of Archean continental crust: A thermodynamic – geochemical perspective of granitoids from the Tarim Craton, NW China

(2022) Rongfeng Ge et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Secular Evolution of Continents and the Earth System

(2022) Peter A. Cawood et al.   REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS

Discovery of a Hadean xenocrystic zircon in the Cathaysia Block

(2022) Youyue Lu et al.   Science Bulletin

Detrital chromites reveal Slave craton’s missing komatiite

(2021) Rasmus Haugaard et al.   GEOLOGY

Introduction—First Billion Years: Habitability

(2021) Edgard G. Rivera-Valentín et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

From peridotite to fuchsite bearing quartzite via carbonation and weathering: with implications for the Pb budget of continental crust

(2021) Håkon Austrheim et al.   CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

Zircons underestimate mantle depletion of early Earth

(2021) Peng Liou et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Hadean zircon formed due to hydrated ultramafic protocrust melting

(2021) Anastassia Y. Borisova et al.   GEOLOGY

Do all Archaean TTG rock compositions represent former melts?

(2021) Hugh Rollinson   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Earth’s earliest granitoids are crystal-rich magma reservoirs tapped by silicic eruptions

(2020) Oscar Laurent et al.   Nature Geoscience

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

Mission to Planet Earth: The First Two Billion Years

(2020) E. E. Stüeken et al.   SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS

Possible link between the oldest supracrustal unit and the oldest rock unit of China

(2020) Peng Liou et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Generation of Calc-Alkaline Magmas During Crystallization at High Oxygen Fugacity: An Experimental and Petrologic Study of Tephras from Buldir Volcano, Western Aleutian Arc, Alaska, USA

(2020) L E Waters et al.   JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY

Deciphering the zircon Hf isotope systematics of Eoarchean gneisses from Greenland: Implications for ancient crust-mantle differentiation and Pb isotope controversies

(2019) Anthony I.S. Kemp et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Extreme δ18O signatures in zircon from the Saglek Block (North Atlantic Craton) document reworking of mature supracrustal rocks as early as 3.5 Ga

(2019) Adrien Vezinet et al.   GEOLOGY

Generation of Archaean TTG Gneisses Through Amphibole‐Dominated Fractionation

(2019) Peng Liou et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Palaeoarchaean deep mantle heterogeneity recorded by enriched plume remnants

(2019) Chao Wang et al.   Nature Geoscience

Tungsten isotopic constraints on homogenization of the Archean silicate Earth: Implications for the transition of tectonic regimes

(2019) Qing-Feng Mei et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Eoarchean to Paleoproterozoic crustal evolution in the North China Craton: Evidence from U-Pb and Hf-O isotopes of zircons from deep-crustal xenoliths

(2019) Qiang Ma et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

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

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

Using the magmatic record to constrain the growth of continental crust—The Eoarchean zircon Hf record of Greenland

(2018) Christopher M. Fisher et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Field occurrences and Nd isotopic characteristics of the meta -mafic-ultramafic rocks from the Caozhuang Complex, eastern Hebei: Implications for early Archean crustal evolution of the North China Craton

(2018) Xia-Hong Cui et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Remnants of Eoarchean continental crust derived from a subducted proto-arc

(2018) Rongfeng Ge et al.   Science Advances

The Mesoarchean Tiejiashan-Gongchangling potassic granite in the Anshan-Benxi area, North China Craton: Origin by recycling of Paleo- to Eoarchean crust from U-Pb-Nd-Hf-O isotopic studies

(2017) Chunyan Dong et al.   LITHOS

Formation of Hadean granites by melting of igneous crust

(2017) A. D. Burnham et al.   Nature Geoscience

Differentiation of the early silicate Earth as recorded by 142 Nd- 143 Nd in 3.8–3.0 Ga rocks from the Anshan Complex, North China Craton

(2017) Chao-Feng Li et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

A reworked ∼3.45 Ga continental microblock of the North China Craton: Constraints from zircon U-Pb-Lu-Hf isotopic systematics of the Archean Beitai-Waitoushan migmatite-syenogranite complex

(2017) Shuwen Liu et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Clarifying the zircon Hf isotope record of crust–mantle evolution

(2016) Jeffrey D. Vervoort et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Oxygen isotope perspective on crustal evolution on early Earth: A record of Precambrian shales with emphasis on Paleoproterozoic glaciations and Great Oxygenation Event

(2016) I.N. Bindeman et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

U–Pb age and Hf isotopes of detrital zircons from the Southeastern North China Craton: Meso- to Neoarchean episodic crustal growth in a shifting tectonic regime

(2016) Lei Liu et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

No evidence for Hadean continental crust within Earth’s oldest evolved rock unit

(2016) J. R. Reimink et al.   Nature Geoscience

“Fingerprinting” tectono-magmatic provenance using trace elements in igneous zircon

(2015) C. B. Grimes et al.   CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

Crustal thickening and clay: Controls on O isotope variation in global magmatism and siliciclastic sedimentary rocks

(2015) Justin L. Payne et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Eoarchean ultra-depleted mantle domains inferred from ca. 3.81 Ga Anshan trondhjemitic gneisses, North China Craton

(2015) Ya-Fei Wang et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

How Did Early Earth Become Our Modern World?

(2014) Richard W. Carlson et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Immobile Element Fingerprinting of Ophiolites

(2014) J. A. Pearce   Elements

Proterozoic onset of crustal reworking and collisional tectonics: Reappraisal of the zircon oxygen isotope record

(2014) C. J. Spencer et al.   GEOLOGY

Early Neoarchean (∼2.7 Ga) tectono-thermal events in the North China Craton: A synthesis

(2014) Yusheng Wan et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Diversity in early crustal evolution: 4100 Ma zircons in the Cathaysia Block of southern China

(2014) Guang-Fu Xing et al.   Scientific Reports

Extreme zircon O isotopic compositions from 3.8 to 2.5Ga magmatic rocks from the Anshan area, North China Craton

(2013) Yusheng Wan et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Discovery of ∼4.0 Ga detrital zircons in the Aermantai ophiolitic mélange, East Junggar, northwest China

(2013) Gang Huang et al.   CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN

New evidence for ~4.45Ga terrestrial crust from zircon xenocrysts in Ordovician ignimbrite in the North Qinling Orogenic Belt, China

(2013) Chunrong Diwu et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Paleo- to Eoarchean crustal evolution in eastern Hebei, North China Craton: New evidence from SHRIMP U–Pb dating and in-situ Hf isotopic study of detrital zircons from paragneisses

(2013) Shoujie Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Continental growth and the crustal record

(2013) Chris Hawkesworth et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Protoliths of enigmatic Archaean gneisses established from zircon inclusion studies: Case study of the Caozhuang quartzite, E. Hebei, China

(2013) Allen P. Nutman et al.   Geoscience Frontiers

Detrital zircon of 4.1 Ga in South China

(2012) YaJun Xu et al.   CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN

Analysis of 60 elements in 616 ocean floor basaltic glasses

(2012) Frances E. Jenner et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Multiple 3.8–3.1Ga tectono-magmatic events in a newly discovered area of ancient rocks (the Shengousi Complex), Anshan, North China Craton

(2012) Yusheng Wan et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Dy/Dy*: Variations Arising from Mantle Sources and Petrogenetic Processes

(2012) Jon Davidson et al.   JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY

Forty years of TTG research

(2012) Jean-François Moyen et al.   LITHOS

Hafnium isotope evidence for a transition in the dynamics of continental growth 3.2 Gyr ago

(2012) T. Næraa et al.   NATURE

The Absolute Chronology and Thermal Processing of Solids in the Solar Protoplanetary Disk

(2012) J. N. Connelly et al.   SCIENCE

Early Silicate Earth Differentiation

(2011) Guillaume Caro   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

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

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

Multistage late Neoarchaean crustal evolution of the North China Craton, eastern Hebei

(2011) Allen P. Nutman et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Hadean crustal evolution revisited: New constraints from Pb–Hf isotope systematics of the Jack Hills zircons

(2010) A.I.S. Kemp et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Primitive oxygen-isotope ratio recorded in magmatic zircon from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

(2009) A. J. Cavosie et al.   AMERICAN MINERALOGIST

Integrated field geological and zircon morphology evidence for ca. 3.8Ga rocks at Anshan: Comment on “Zircon U–Pb and Hf isotopic constraints on the Early Archean crustal evolution in Anshan of the North China Craton” by Wu et al. [Precambrian Res. 167 (2008) 339–362]

(2009) Allen P. Nutman et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

New U-Pb and Hf isotopic data confirm Anshan as the oldest preserved segment of the North China Craton

(2008) D. Liu et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

SHRIMP U-Pb and CAMECA 1280 oxygen isotope results from ancient detrital zircons in the Caozhuang quartzite, Eastern Hebei, North China Craton: Evidence for crustal reworking 3.8 Ga ago

(2008) S. A. Wilde et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

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 U–Pb and Hf isotopic constraints on the Early Archean crustal evolution in Anshan of the North China Craton

(2008) Fu-Yuan Wu et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Neodymium-142 Evidence for Hadean Mafic Crust

(2008) J. O'Neil et al.   SCIENCE