One of the most contentious areas of Earth Science today is when, or whether or not modern-
style plate tectonics was in operation in the Archean Eon. In this review we present evidence …

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 …

The lower plate is the dominant agent in modern convergent margins characterized by
active subduction, as negatively buoyant oceanic lithosphere sinks into the asthenosphere …

Available lithostratigraphic, tectonothermal, geochronological and paleomagnetic data from
2.1–1.8 Ga collisional orogens and related cratonic blocks around the world have …

Construction and assembly of the Geologic Time Scale involves:(a) constructing a relative
(chronostratigraphic) standard scale for key periods in the Earth's rock record;(b) identifying …

There is no consensus on the processes responsible for near-coeval formation of Archaean
continental crust (dominantly tonalite–trondhjemite–granodiorite: TTG), greenstone belts …

The global Archean record preserves ca. 35 large cratonic fragments and a less well defined
number of smaller slivers. Most Archean cratons display rifted margins of Proterozoic age …

The results of field, geochronologic, geochemical and isotopic studies are presented for the
granitoids that occur east of the Closepet batholith up to the Kolar schist belt (KSB). Field …

The Dharwar craton comprises two distinct parts separated by a steep N–S sinistral shear
zone. In the western part a pre-2900Ma complex of orthogneisses, granodiorites and narrow …

Extensive field work in the Eastern Dharwar Craton, associated with petrographic and
geochemical (major and trace elements) investigations, allows four main types of Late …