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ArticleNature communications2022

Barium content of Archaean continental crust reveals the onset of subduction was not global.

Guangyu Huang, Ross N Mitchell, Richard M Palin, Christopher J Spencer, Jinghui Guo

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Guangyu HuangState Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100029, Beijing, China. huangguangyu@mail.iggcas.ac.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2062-8095
Ross N MitchellState Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100029, Beijing, China. ross.mitchell@mail.iggcas.ac.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5349-7909
Richard M PalinDepartment of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3AN, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6959-0462
Christopher J SpencerDepartment of Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4264-3701
Jinghui GuoState Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100029, Beijing, China.

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National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 41890832National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 41902057National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 42172217
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Abstract

Earth's earliest continental crust is dominated by tonalite-trondhjemite-granodiorite (TTG) suites, making these rocks key to unlocking the global geodynamic regime operating during the Archaean (4.0-2.5 billion years ago [Ga]). The tectonic setting of TTG magmatism is controversial, with hypotheses arguing both for and against subduction. Here we conduct petrological modeling over a range of pressure-temperature conditions relevant to the Archaean geothermal gradient. Using an average enriched Archaean basaltic source composition, we predict Ba concentrations in TTG suites, which is difficult to increase after magma generated in the source. The results indicate only low geothermal gradients corresponding to hot subduction zones produce Ba-rich TTG, thus Ba represents a proxy for the onset of subduction. We then identify statistically significant increases in the Ba contents of TTG suites worldwide as recording the diachronous onset of subduction from regional at 4 Ga to globally complete sometime after 2.7 Ga.

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