ArticleNature2021
Oxygen isotopes trace the origins of Earth's earliest continental crust.
Article in Nature, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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- Coupled sulfur-silicon isotopes reveal supracrustal origin of Archean continents.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Paleoarchean deep crustal hydration and oxidation induced by subduction-driven water recycling.Science advances · 2026Article
- Insights into early continental crust formation from the most ancient heart of Scotland.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Early Archaean subduction and intracrustal processes: experimental evidence from the East Pilbara Terrane, Australia.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Continental evolution influenced by relamination of deeply subducted continental crust.Nature geoscience · 2026Article
- Earth's Hadean crust formed via operation of convergent tectonics.National science review · 2025Article
- A two-stage mantle plume-sagduction origin of Archean continental crust revealed by water and oxygen isotopes of TTGs.Science advances · 2025Article
- Incipient continent formation by shallow melting of an altered mafic protocrust.Nature communications · 2025Article
- The constant oxidation state of Earth's mantle since the Hadean.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Archaean continental crust formed from mafic cumulates.Nature communications · 2024Article
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- Barium content of Archaean continental crust reveals the onset of subduction was not global.Nature communications · 2022Article
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- The onset of deep recycling of supracrustal materials at the Paleo-Mesoarchean boundary.National science review · 2022Article
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10 authors at 5 institutions in 4 countries.
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Abstract
Much of the current volume of Earth's continental crust had formed by the end of the Archaean eon
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