Episodic zircon ages, Hf isotopic composition, and the preservation rate of continental crust

Protracted continental collision — evidence from the Grenville OrogenThis article is one of a series of papers published in this Special Issue on the theme Lithoprobe — parameters, processes, and the evolution of a continent.

(2010) Andrew Hynes et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

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

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

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

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

Evidence and implications for a widespread magmatic shutdown for 250 My on Earth

(2009) Kent C. Condie et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

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

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

GEOCHEMISTRY: A Matter of Preservation

(2009) C. Hawkesworth et al.   SCIENCE

Zircon formation versus zircon alteration — New insights from combined U–Pb and Lu–Hf in-situ LA-ICP-MS analyses, and consequences for the interpretation of Archean zircon from the Central Zone of the Limpopo Belt

(2008) Axel Gerdes et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

The Lu–Hf and Sm–Nd isotopic composition of CHUR: Constraints from unequilibrated chondrites and implications for the bulk composition of terrestrial planets

(2008) Audrey Bouvier et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Rate of growth of the preserved North American continental crust: Evidence from Hf and O isotopes in Mississippi detrital zircons

(2008) Christina Yan Wang et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Episodic, mafic crust formation from 4.5 to 2.8 Ga: New evidence from detrital zircons, Slave craton, Canada

(2008) A.B. Pietranik et al.   GEOLOGY

The Grenvillian and Pan-African orogens: World's largest orogenies through geologic time, and their implications on the origin of superplume

(2008) S. Rino et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Granitoid events in space and time: Constraints from igneous and detrital zircon age spectra

(2008) Kent C. Condie et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Formation of supercontinents linked to increases in atmospheric oxygen

(2008) Ian H. Campbell et al.   Nature Geoscience

The structure, evolution and symmetry of the magma-poor rifted margins of the North and Central Atlantic: A synthesis

(2008) T.J. Reston   TECTONOPHYSICS

Neoproterozoic crustal growth: The solid Earth system during a critical episode of Earth history

(2007) Robert J. Stern   GONDWANA RESEARCH