Melting in an Archaean mantle plume: Heads it’s basalts, tails it’s komatiites

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Heat loss from the earth: A constraint on Archaean tectonics from the relation between geothermal gradients and the rate of plate production

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Experimental determination of element partitioning between silicate perovskites, garnets and liquids: constraints on early differentiation of the mantle

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The thermal boundary-layer interpretation of D″ and its role as a plume source

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The Sm-Nd age of Kambalda volcanics is 500 Ma too old!

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Creeping plumes

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Were Archean continental geothermal gradients much steeper than those of today?

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Komatiites and the structure of the Archaean mantle

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Sm–Nd age of Kambalda and Kanowna greenstones and heterogeneity in the Archaean mantle

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Thermals in extremely viscous fluids, including the effects of temperature-dependent viscosity

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Plume formation and lithosphere erosion: A comparison of laboratory and numerical experiments

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Formation of seafloor swells by mantle plumes

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Archaean basic volcanism in the Eastern Goldfields Province, Yilgarn Block, Western Australia

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The petrogenesis of peridotitic komatiites: Evidence from high-pressure melting experiments

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Constraints on element partition coefficients between MgSiO3 perovskite and liquid determined by direct measurements

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Archean komatiites and geotherms: Solution to an apparent contradiction

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Mantle convection and early crustal evolution

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Holographic measurements of surface topography in laboratory models of mantle hotspots

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Dynamics of mantle thermals with constant buoyancy or anomalous internal heating

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Revised Sm–Nd systematics of Kambalda greenstones, Western Australia

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Science journals: Cryptozoology

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Archean blocks and their boundaries in the North China Craton: lithological, geochemical, structural and P–T path constraints and tectonic evolution

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Melting of Garnet Peridotite and the Origin of Komatiite and Depleted Lithosphere

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Implications of mantle plume structure for the evolution of flood basalts

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Thermal history of the Earth and its petrological expression

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Special Paper: Adakite-Like Rocks: Their Diverse Origins and Questionable Role in Metallogenesis

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Abstract: Thermal structure and chemical composition of the Archean mantle and origin of mantle “plumes”: Insights from ca. 2.73 Ga komatiite and basalt, Nunavut, Canada

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Komatiite genesis in the Archaean mantle, with implications for the tectonics of Archaean greenstone belts

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Komatiites reveal a hydrous Archaean deep-mantle reservoir

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Archean to recent komatiites and basalts

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Distribution and Geochemistry of Komatiites and Basalts Through the Archean

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