ArticleNature communications2025
Incipient continent formation by shallow melting of an altered mafic protocrust.
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- Insights into early continental crust formation from the most ancient heart of Scotland.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Redox chemistry of early Earth and the origin of life.Communications chemistry · 2026Review
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Understanding how Earth's continental nuclei first formed in the Archean eon (4.0-2.5 Ga) underpins our notions of early Earth geodynamics. Yet, the nature of Earth's early protocrust and the primary mechanism for its transformation are poorly understood, as very ancient rocks preserving petrological evidence for these processes are incredibly rare. Here we report the discovery of a formerly melt-bearing amphibolite from the Sylvania Inlier of the Pilbara Craton in Western Australia. Radiometric dating of zircon and titanite in these rocks constrain the time of partial melting to 3565 Ma, providing evidence for a metamorphic event that predates most exposed rocks in the Pilbara Craton by ~30 million years. Low δ
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