Paleoarchean ocean crust and mantle excavated by meteor impact: Insight into early crustal processes and tectonics

Ni-rich spinels and platinum group element nuggets condensed from a Late Archaean impact vapour cloud

(2013) Steven Goderis et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

An Archaean heavy bombardment from a destabilized extension of the asteroid belt

(2012) William F. Bottke et al.   NATURE

Two types of Archean continental crust: Plume and plate tectonics on early Earth

(2011) M. J. Van Kranendonk   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

Dunites from Isua, Greenland: A ca. 3720 Ma window into subcrustal metasomatism of depleted mantle

(2011) C.R.L. Friend et al.   GEOLOGY

Mineralogy and diagenesis of 3.24Ga meteorite impact spherules

(2011) Alexandra E. Krull-Davatzes et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Onset of Plate Tectonics

(2011) M. J. Van Kranendonk   SCIENCE

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

(2011) S. B. Shirey et al.   SCIENCE

Chemical variations and regional diversity observed in MORB

(2009) Ricardo Arevalo et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Progressive mixing of meteoritic veneer into the early Earth’s deep mantle

(2009) Wolfgang D. Maier et al.   NATURE

Low heat flow inferred from >4 Gyr zircons suggests Hadean plate boundary interactions

(2008) Michelle Hopkins et al.   NATURE