Formation of Archean (3600–2500 Ma) continental crust in the Dharwar Craton, southern India

M Jayananda, M Santosh, KR Aadhiseshan - Earth-Science Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
The generation, preservation and destruction of continental crust on Earth is of wide interest
in understanding the formation of continents, cratons and supercontinents as well as related …

Neoarchean intra-oceanic arc system in the Western Liaoning Province: Implications for Early Precambrian crustal evolution in the Eastern Block of the North China …

W Wang, S Liu, M Santosh, G Wang, X Bai, R Guo - Earth-Science Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
Archean crust–mantle interaction processes provide keys to understanding crustal evolution
in the Early Earth. The North China Craton (NCC) represents a natural laboratory to evaluate …

Multi-stage crustal growth and Neoarchean geodynamics in the Eastern Dharwar Craton, southern India

M Jayananda, KR Aadhiseshan, MA Kusiak… - Gondwana …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Dharwar Craton is a composite Archean cratonic collage that preserves
important records of crustal evolution on the early Earth. Here we present results from a …

The evolution of Hadean–Eoarchaean geodynamics

C O'Neill, V Debaille - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Geodynamic modelling of Hadean/Eoarchaean tectonics typically requires higher
rates of internal heat production, and higher mantle temperatures, in models that possess …

What Hf isotopes in zircon tell us about crust–mantle evolution

T Iizuka, T Yamaguchi, K Itano, Y Hibiya, K Suzuki - Lithos, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The 176 Lu–176 Hf radioactive decay system has been widely used to study
planetary crust–mantle differentiation. Of considerable utility in this regard is zircon, a …

Sampling the volatile-rich transition zone beneath Bermuda

SE Mazza, E Gazel, M Bizimis, R Moucha, P Béguelin… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Intraplate magmatic provinces found away from plate boundaries provide direct sampling of
the composition and heterogeneity of the Earth's mantle. The chemical heterogeneities that …

Contrasting crustal evolution processes in the Dharwar craton: insights from detrital zircon U–Pb and Hf isotopes

PJ Lancaster, S Dey, CD Storey, A Mitra, RK Bhunia - Gondwana Research, 2015 - Elsevier
New in situ U–Pb-Hf analyses of detrital zircons from across the Archaean Dharwar craton
indicate significant juvenile crustal extraction events at~ 3.3 and 2.7 Ga, and continuous …

Hafnium and iron isotopes in early Archean komatiites record a plume-driven convection cycle in the Hadean Earth

O Nebel, IH Campbell, PA Sossi… - Earth and Planetary …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Archean (> 2.5 billion years) komatiites are considered expressions of mantle
plumes that originate from and thereby sample the lowermost mantle overlying the Earth's …

Supercontinental inheritance and its influence on supercontinental breakup: The C entral A tlantic M agmatic P rovince and the breakup of P angea

L Whalen, E Gazel, C Vidito, J Puffer… - Geochemistry …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP) is the large igneous province (LIP)
that coincides with the breakup of the supercontinent Pangea. Major and trace element data …

Volcano-sedimentary and metallogenic records of the Dharwar greenstone terranes, India: Window to Archean plate tectonics, continent growth, and mineral …

C Manikyamba, S Ganguly, M Santosh… - Gondwana …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Dharwar Craton in southern peninsular India incorporates well developed
Meso-Neoarchean greenstone terranes where komatiite-tholeiite and picrite-boninite-Nb …