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ArticleNature communications2026

Insights into early continental crust formation from the most ancient heart of Scotland.

Silvia Volante, Fernanda Torres-Mancinelli, Jonas Kaempf, Vitor Barrote, Tim Johnson, Christopher Kirkland, Maria Rosa Scicchitano, Lorenzo Tavazzani, Sampriti Basak, Anne-Sophie Bouvier and 2 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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12 authors.

Silvia VolanteStructural Geology and Tectonics Group, Geological Institute, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland. svolante@eaps.ethz.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8807-4087
Fernanda Torres-MancinelliStructural Geology and Tectonics Group, Geological Institute, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0212-9778
Jonas KaempfCurtin Frontier Institute for Geoscience Solutions, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia.
Vitor BarroteCenter for Nuclear Engineering and Sciences, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland.
Tim JohnsonCurtin Frontier Institute for Geoscience Solutions, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-4396
Christopher KirklandCurtin Frontier Institute for Geoscience Solutions, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3367-8961
Maria Rosa ScicchitanoGFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany.
Lorenzo TavazzaniDepartment of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Sampriti BasakDepartment of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Anne-Sophie BouvierInstitut des Sciences de la Terre, Université de Lausanne, Quartier UNIL-Mouline, Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5202-603X
Annika DziggelDepartment of Tectonics and Resources, Institute of Geoscience, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany.
Axel GerdesDepartment of Geosciences, Frankfurt Isotope and Element Research Center (FIERCE), Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3823-2125

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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) VO 2669/2-1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The paucity of rocks from Earth's first billion years (4.5-3.5 Ga) limits understanding of early felsic (continental) crust formation and craton development. We present zircon U-Pb, O- and Hf-isotope and whole-rock geochemical data from deformed and metamorphosed (ultra)mafic and felsic rocks of the Archaean Lewisian Gneiss Complex, NW Scotland. The felsic, MgO-rich hornblende-bearing tonalite gneisses contain magmatic zircon populations at c. 3.6, 3.5, and 2.8 Ga, as do enclosed hornblendite pods (>95 vol.% hornblende). Zircons from hbl-tonalite preserve median δ¹

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