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Calibrating the Yield Strength of Archean Lithosphere Based on the Volume of Tonalite-Trondhjemite-Granodiorite Crust

Gunawardana, P. M., Morra, G., Chowdhury, P., & Cawood, P. A. (2020) · Frontiers in Earth Science · doi:10.3389/feart.2020.548724 · Cited by 5

Evaluating the geochemistry and paired silicon and oxygen isotope record of quartz in siliceous rocks from the ~3 Ga Buhwa Greenstone Belt, Zimbabwe, a critical link to deciphering the Mesoarchean silica cycle

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Early hydrosphere-rock interactions and intra-crustal recycling recorded by remarkably high-δ18O Mesoarchean granitoids in the Sulu orogenic belt, eastern China

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太古宙地质与板块构造: 观察与解释

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The influence of mafic and felsic crust on the seawater chemistry ca. 3.0 billion years ago: Evidence from Nd isotopes in banded iron formations from the Murchison Greenstone Belt

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Saline fluids play a major role in continental crust formation

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An exogenic to endogenic thermal transition on Earth 3.9 billion years ago

Kirkland, C. L., Liebmann, J., Gamaleldien, H., Olierook, H. K. H., Dröllner, M., Johnson, T. E., O’Neill, C., & Schmitt, A. K. (2025) · Communications Earth & Environment · doi:10.1038/s43247-025-02575-9 · Cited by 4

Microbial palaeontology and the origin of life: a personal approach

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Linking Gold Systems to the Crust-Mantle Evolution of Archean Crust in Central Brazil

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Phase equilibria modelling and textural relationship of metapelitic granulites and Grt-Bt-bearing gneisses from Mauranipur area, Bundelkhand Craton, central India

Pathak, P., Dwivedi, S. B., & Kumar, R. R. (2022) · Arabian Journal of Geosciences · doi:10.1007/s12517-022-10944-3 · Cited by 4

Structural Architecture and Spatial-Temporal Distribution of the Archean Domains in the Eastern North China Craton

Peng, P. (2016) · Springer geology · doi:10.1007/978-981-10-1064-4_3 · Cited by 4

Hf-Nd Isotopes in Archean Marine Chemical Sediments: Implications for the Geodynamical History of Early Earth and Its Impact on Earliest Marine Habitats

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Pattern of Continental Growth and Its Secular Change

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Pb isotopes reveal intracrustal exhalative hydrothermalism during deposition of the ∼3.43 Ga Strelley Pool Formation

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Gravitational Potential Energy per Unit Area as a Constraint on Archean Sea Level

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Generation and preservation of Archean lithosphere and crust

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Thermal evolution of cratonic roots

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The Role of Crustal Radiogenic Heat Production in the Stability of Hadean, Archean and Proterozoic Lithospheres

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Secular cooling and crystallization of partially molten Archaean continental crust over 1 Ga

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Evolution of the Precambrian lithosphere: Seismological and geochemical constraints

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