Heat-pipe Earth

Geodynamics

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Evidence from detrital zircons for the existence of continental crust and oceans on the Earth 4.4 Gyr ago

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A change in the geodynamics of continental growth 3 billion years ago

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Oxygen-isotope evidence from ancient zircons for liquid water at the Earth's surface 4,300 Myr ago

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Melting of a dry peridotite KLB‐1 up to 14 GPa: Implications on the Origin of peridotitic upper mantle

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The composite Archaean grey gneisses: Petrological significance, and evidence for a non-unique tectonic setting for Archaean crustal growth

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Priscoan (4.00–4.03 Ga) orthogneisses from northwestern Canada

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

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The Precambrian earth : tempos and events

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The Hadean Crust: Evidence from >4 Ga Zircons

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Treatise on geophysics

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Modelling compressible mantle convection with large viscosity contrasts in a three-dimensional spherical shell using the yin-yang grid

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Archean subduction: Fact or fiction?

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Plate tectonics on the early Earth: Limitations imposed by strength and buoyancy of subducted lithosphere

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Localized gravity/topography admittance and correlation spectra on Mars: Implications for regional and global evolution

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Episodic Precambrian subduction

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Pressure-temperature phase diagram of elemental carbon

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The hunting of the snArc

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Special Paper 440: When Did Plate Tectonics Begin on Planet Earth?

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Mechanisms of Archean crust formation inferred from high-precision HFSE systematics in TTGs

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Modern-style plate tectonics began in Neoproterozoic time: An alternative interpretation of Earth's tectonic history

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Hafnium isotopes in Jack Hills zircons and the formation of the Hadean crust

Janne Blichert-toft, B., & Albarède, F. (2007) · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2007.10.054 · Cited by 208

Hafnium isotope evidence from Archean granitic rocks for deep-mantle origin of continental crust

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Magma transport of heat on Io: A mechanism allowing a thick lithosphere

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Correction to “Localized gravity/topography admittance and correlation spectra on Mars: Implications for regional and global evolution”

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Earth's oldest rocks

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Volcanic resurfacing and the early terrestrial crust: Zircon U–Pb and REE constraints from the Isua Greenstone Belt, southern West Greenland

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Origin of Mountains on Io by Thrust Faulting and Large-Scale Mass Movements

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Chapter 5.3 An Overview of the Geology of the Barberton Greenstone Belt and Vicinity: Implications for Early Crustal Development

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Megaregolith insulation, internal temperatures, and bulk uranium content of the moon

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Chapter 4.1 Paleoarchean Development of a Continental Nucleus: the East Pilbara Terrane of the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia

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Cool greenstone drips and the role of partial convective overturn in Barberton greenstone belt evolution

Kranendonk, M. J. V. (2011) · Journal of African Earth Sciences · doi:10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2011.03.012 · Cited by 133

Thermal evolution with a hydrating mantle and the initiation of plate tectonics in the early Earth

Korenaga, J. (2011) · Journal of Geophysical Research · doi:10.1029/2011jb008410 · Cited by 124

Abyssal peridotites >3,800 Ma from southern West Greenland: field relationships, petrography, geochronology, whole-rock and mineral chemistry of dunite and harzburgite inclusions in the Itsaq Gneiss Complex

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Hadean diamonds in zircon from Jack Hills, Western Australia

Menneken, M., Nemchin, A. A., Geisler, T., Pidgeon, R. T., & Wilde, S. A. (2007) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature06083 · Cited by 116

Gravitational depletion of the early Earth's upper mantle and the viability of early plate tectonics

Davies, G. F. (2006) · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2006.01.053 · Cited by 97

Complex 3670–3500 Ma Orogenic Episodes Superimposed on Juvenile Crust Accreted between 3850 and 3690 Ma, Itsaq Gneiss Complex, Southern West Greenland

Friend, C. R. L., & Nutman, A. P. (2005) · The Journal of Geology · doi:10.1086/430239 · Cited by 91

Chapter 5.6 TTG Plutons of the Barberton Granitoid-Greenstone Terrain, South Africa

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Dynamics and Thermal History of the Terrestrial Planets, the Moon, and Io

Breuer, D., & Moore, W. B. (2007) · Elsevier eBooks · doi:10.1016/b978-044452748-6.00161-9 · Cited by 74

A light carbon reservoir recorded in zircon-hosted diamond from the Jack Hills

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Chapter 3.3 The Itsaq Gneiss Complex of Southern West Greenland and the Construction of Eoarchaean Crust at Convergent Plate Boundaries

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When did plate tectonics begin? Evidence from the orogenic record

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The polar contribution to the heat flow of Io

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Evolution of the global mean heat flow over 4.6 Gyr

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40Ar/39Ar age constraints on tectonothermal events in the Shaw area of the eastern Pilbara granite–greenstone terrain (W Australia): 700 Ma of Archean tectonic evolution

Zegers, T. E., WIJBRANS, J. R., & White, S. H. (1999) · Tectonophysics · doi:10.1016/s0040-1951(99)00157-2 · Cited by 29

Fragmentation and dispersal of komatiitic pyroclasts in the 3.5-3.2 Ga Onverwacht Group, Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa

Stiegler, M. T., Lowe, D. R., & Byerly, G. R. (2011) · Geological Society of America Bulletin · doi:10.1130/b30191.1 · Cited by 22

Geological archive of the onset of plate tectonics

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Stagnant lids and mantle overturns: Implications for Archaean tectonics, magmagenesis, crustal growth, mantle evolution, and the start of plate tectonics

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Secular change and the onset of plate tectonics on Earth

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Constraining the climate and ocean pH of the early Earth with a geological carbon cycle model

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Generation of felsic crust in the Archean: A geodynamic modeling perspective

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A decade of the heat-pipe Earth hypothesis

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A resolution of the Archaean paradox

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Heat transport in the Hadean mantle: From heat pipes to plates

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Modeling Early Earth Tectonics

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Heat Pipe Planets

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