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The formation of Neoarchean continental crust in the south-east Superior Craton by two distinct geodynamic processes

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A new 3.59 Ga magmatic suite and a chondritic source to the east Pilbara Craton

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Generation of Earth’s early continents from a relatively cool Archean mantle

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Eoarchaean tectonics: New constraints from high pressure-temperature experiments and mass balance modelling

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Petrological, mineralogical and geochemical peculiarities of Archaean cratons

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How did the continental crust form: No basalt, no water, no granite

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Temporal variations in the incompatible trace element systematics of Archean volcanic rocks: Implications for tectonic processes in the early Earth

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Origin of the oldest (3600–3200 Ma) cratonic core in the Western Dharwar Craton, Southern India: Implications for evolving tectonics of the Archean Earth

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A linked evolution for granite-greenstone terranes of the Pilbara Craton from Nd and Hf isotopes, with implications for Archean continental growth

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A Yilgarn seed to the Pilbara Craton (Australia)? Evidence from inherited zircons

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Building up the first continents: Mesoarchean to Paleoproterozoic crustal evolution in West Troms, Norway, inferred from granitoid petrology, geochemistry and zircon U-Pb/Lu-Hf isotopes

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Petrology, phase equilibria modelling and zircon U-Pb geochronology of garnet-bearing charnockites from the Miyun area: Implications for microblock amalgamation of the North China Craton

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Diverse middle Neoarchean granitoids and the delamination of thickened crust in the Western Shandong Terrane, North China Craton

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Evolution of the early to late Archean mantle from Hf-Nd-Ce isotope systematics in basalts and komatiites from the Pilbara Craton

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

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Komatiites From Mantle Transition Zone Plumes

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Diverse Styles of Lithospheric Dripping: Synthesizing Gravitational Instability Models, Continental Tectonics, and Geologic Observations

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Archean crust-mantle geodynamic regimes: A review

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Laser ablation (in situ) Lu-Hf dating of magmatic fluorite and hydrothermal fluorite-bearing veins

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A Review of Paleo- to Neoarchean crustal evolution in the Dharwar craton, Southern India and the transition towards a Plate Tectonic regime

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Geodynamic significance of Neoarchean metasedimentary belts in the Superior Province: Detrital zircon U-Pb LA-ICP-MS geochronology of the Opinaca and La Grande subprovinces

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Theoretical versus empirical secular change in zircon composition

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Combined Sm-Nd, Lu-Hf, and 142Nd study of Paleoarchean basalts from the East Pilbara Terrane, Western Australia

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From Mesoarchean drips to modern–style tectonics in the Carajás Province, Amazonian Craton

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Spatial and temporal control of Archean tectonomagmatic regimes

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Over one billion years of Archean crust evolution revealed by zircon U-Pb and Hf isotopes from the Saglek-Hebron complex

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The geology and tectonic evolution of the northwest part of the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa: A review

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Zircon U–Pb, Lu–Hf and O isotopes from the 3414 Ma Strelley Pool Formation, East Pilbara Terrane, and the Palaeoarchaean emergence of a cryptic cratonic core

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Soils, Chemical Weathering, and Climate Change in Earth History

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The role of magmatic fluids in the ~3.48 Ga Dresser Caldera, Pilbara Craton: New insights from the geochemical investigation of hydrothermal alteration

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Geodynamic oxidation of Archean terrestrial surfaces

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Titanium and iron isotopic records of granitoid crust production in diverse Archean cratons

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Scratching the surface of subterranean biodiversity: Molecular analysis reveals a diverse and previously unknown fauna of Parabathynellidae (Crustacea: Bathynellacea) from the Pilbara, Western Australia

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Variations in crustal and lithospheric structure across the Eastern Indian Shield from passive seismic source imaging: Implications to changes in the tectonic regimes and crustal accretion through the Precambrian

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Paleoarchean metamorphism in the Acasta Gneiss Complex: Constraints from phase equilibrium modelling and in situ garnet Lu–Hf geochronology

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Archean crustal growth and reworking revealed by combined U-Pb-Hf-O isotope and trace element data of detrital zircons from ancient and modern river sediments of the eastern Kaapvaal Craton

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Testing the importance of sagduction: insights from the Lewisian Gneiss Complex of northwest Scotland

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Earth’s Earliest Crust

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Internal structure of the Paleoarchean Mt Edgar dome, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia

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Palaeoarchaean TTGs of the Pilbara and Kaapvaal cratons compared; an early Vaalbara supercraton evaluated

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Metamorphic constraints on Archean tectonics

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The Abitibi-Opatica transition, Superior Province, Quebec, Canada: Structural analysis, 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology and implications for Archean tectonics

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Geochemistry and petrogenesis of the early Archean mafic crust from the Saglek-Hebron Complex (Northern Labrador)

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Earth's Earliest Phaneritic Ultramafic Rocks: Mantle Slices or Crustal Cumulates?

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Evolution of continental crust and sedimentary rock chemistry through time

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Extensive magmatism and metamorphism at ca. 3.2 Ga in the eastern Kaapvaal Craton

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Paleo- and Mesoarchean TTG-sanukitoid to high-K granite cycles in the southern São Francisco craton, SE Brazil

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Formation of early continental crust by remelting of hydrothermally altered oceanic crust: Evidence from potassium and oxygen isotopes

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Large-scale impregnation of oceanic and continental slab-derived adakitic melts into the mantle wedge

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3.7 billion year old detrital sediments in Greenland are consistent with active plate tectonics in the Eoarchean

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The evolution of Earth’s early continental crust

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Hafnium-Neodymium isotope, trace element and U-Pb zircon age constraints on the petrogenesis of the 3.44–3.46 Ga Dwalile greenstone remnant, Ancient gneiss Complex, Swaziland

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Constraints on the age of dome-and-keel structures in the Pilbara Craton through integrated garnet geochronology and microstructural analyses

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Cold Deep Over Hot Shallow Crust: A Peculiar Metamorphic Architecture in the Neoarchean Metasedimentary Pontiac Subprovince, Superior Craton (Canada)

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Evidence of secular variation in Archean crust formation in the Eastern Indian Shield

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