There were no large volumes of felsic continental crust in the early Earth

A planet in transition: The onset of plate tectonics on Earth between 3 and 2 Ga?

(2018) Kent C. Condie   Geoscience Frontiers

Chondritic Lu/Hf in the early crust–mantle system as recorded by zircon populations from the oldest Eoarchean rocks of Yilgarn Craton, West Australia and Enderby Land, Antarctica

(2016) Joe Hiess et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Clarifying the zircon Hf isotope record of crust–mantle evolution

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

Strengths and limitations of zircon Lu-Hf and O isotopes in modelling crustal growth

(2016) Justin L. Payne et al.   LITHOS

Formation of lower continental crust by relamination of buoyant arc lavas and plutons

(2016) Peter B. Kelemen et al.   Nature Geoscience

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

(2016) M. Tang et al.   SCIENCE

Slab and sediment melting during subduction initiation: granitoid dykes from the mantle section of the Oman ophiolite

(2015) Hugh Rollinson   CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

Stable isotope evidence for crustal recycling as recorded by superdeep diamonds

(2015) A.D. Burnham et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

A linear Hf isotope-age array despite different granitoid sources and complex Archean geodynamics: Example from the Pietersburg block (South Africa)

(2015) Oscar Laurent et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Magma Production Rates for Intraoceanic Arcs

(2015) B. R. Jicha et al.   Elements

The origin and significance of crustal minerals in ophiolitic chromitites and peridotites

(2015) Paul T. Robinson et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Emergence of modern continental crust about 3 billion years ago

(2015) Bruno Dhuime et al.   Nature Geoscience

Hf isotopes in detrital and inherited zircons of the Pilbara Craton provide no evidence for Hadean continents

(2015) Anthony I.S. Kemp et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Implications of discordant U–Pb ages on Hf isotope studies of detrital zircons

(2014) Martin Guitreau et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Recycling of crustal materials through study of ultrahigh-pressure minerals in collisional orogens, ophiolites, and mantle xenoliths: A review

(2014) Juhn G. Liou et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Growth of continental crust: a balance between preservation and recycling

(2014) K. C. Condie   MINERALOGICAL MAGAZINE

Widespread mixing and burial of Earth’s Hadean crust by asteroid impacts

(2014) S. Marchi et al.   NATURE

The contribution of metamorphic petrology to understanding lithosphere evolution and geodynamics

(2014) Michael Brown   Geoscience Frontiers

The composition of the foundered complement to the continental crust and a re-evaluation of fluxes in arcs

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

Reconstructing pre-Pangean supercontinents

(2013) D. A. D. Evans   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

U–Pb and Hf isotope data of detrital zircons from the Barberton Greenstone Belt: constraints on provenance and Archaean crustal evolution

(2013) Armin Zeh et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

The role of detrital zircons in Hadean crustal research

(2013) Oliver Nebel et al.   LITHOS

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

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

(2012) B. Dhuime et al.   SCIENCE

Understanding the roles of crustal growth and preservation in the detrital zircon record

(2011) Penelope J. Lancaster et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

From sediments to their source rocks: Hf and Nd isotopes in recent river sediments

(2011) Bruno Dhuime et al.   GEOLOGY

Quantifying the Timing and Rate of Crustal Evolution: Global Compilation of Radiometrically Dated Detrital Zircon Grains

(2011) Peter J. Voice et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY

The growth of the Zimbabwe Craton during the late Archaean: an ion microprobe U–Pb zircon study

(2011) Hugh R. Rollinson et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Start of the Wilson Cycle at 3 Ga Shown by Diamonds from Subcontinental Mantle

(2011) S. B. Shirey et al.   SCIENCE

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

Detrital zircon evidence for Hf isotopic evolution of granitoid crust and continental growth

(2010) Tsuyoshi Iizuka et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Coupled evolution of Archean continental crust and subcontinental lithospheric mantle

(2010) Hugh Rollinson   GEOLOGY

The growth of the continental crust: Constraints from zircon Hf-isotope data

(2010) E.A. Belousova et al.   LITHOS

Episodic zircon age spectra of orogenic granitoids: The supercontinent connection and continental growth

(2010) Kent C. Condie et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

The fate of subducted Upper Continental Crust: An experimental study

(2009) Yao Wu et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Continental geochemical signatures in dacites from Iceland and implications for models of early Archaean crust formation

(2009) Matthias Willbold et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Deep mantle subduction flux

(2009) Katherine A. Porter et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Yin and yang of continental crust creation and destruction by plate tectonic processes

(2009) Robert J. Stern et al.   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

New models for the genesis of plagiogranites in the Oman ophiolite

(2009) Hugh Rollinson   LITHOS

Detrital zircon sedimentary provenance ages for the Eoarchaean Isua supracrustal belt southern West Greenland: Juxtaposition of an imbricated ca. 3700Ma juvenile arc against an older complex with 3920–3760Ma components

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

Subduction recycling of continental sediments and the origin of geochemically enriched reservoirs in the deep mantle

(2008) Robert P. Rapp et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Ophiolitic trondhjemites: a possible analogue for Hadean felsic 'crust'

(2008) Hugh Rollinson   TERRA NOVA