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Giant impacts and the origin and evolution of continents.
Article in Nature, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- Geology and Mars analog potential of the <2.7-billion-year-old Miralga impact structure, North Pole Dome, Pilbara Craton, Australia.Science advances · 2025Article
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- Incipient continent formation by shallow melting of an altered mafic protocrust.Nature communications · 2025Article
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- A Paleoarchaean impact crater in the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Mapping Geological Events and Nitrogen Fixation Evolution Onto the Timetree of the Evolution of Nitrogen-Fixation Genes.Molecular biology and evolution · 2024Article
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- Dominance of felsic continental crust on Earth after 3 billion years ago is recorded by vanadium isotopes.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
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6 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Earth is the only planet known to have continents, although how they formed and evolved is unclear. Here using the oxygen isotope compositions of dated magmatic zircon, we show that the Pilbara Craton in Western Australia, Earth's best-preserved Archaean (4.0-2.5 billion years ago (Ga)) continental remnant, was built in three stages. Stage 1 zircons (3.6-3.4 Ga) form two age clusters with one-third recording submantle δ
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