This contribution presents a comprehensive synthesis on the origin of oldest (3600–3200 Ma) cratonic core in the Western Dharwar Craton (WDC), Southern India based our new …
Rocks of tonalitic–trondhjemitic–granodioritic (TTG) composition preserved in Archaean terranes represent fragments of the Earth's earliest-formed continental crust, and are thought …
Archaean greenstone belts and associated granitic rocks comprise some of the most diverse rock types on the Earth's surface and were formed during the early stages of the …
How and when continents grew and plate tectonics started on Earth remain poorly constrained. Most researchers apply the modern plate tectonic paradigm to problems of …
Granites are emblematic rocks developed from a magma that crystallized in the Earth's crust. They ultimately outcrop at the surface of every continent. This book-translated, edited, and …
The tectonic style of the Archean Earth is contentious, with ongoing debate concerning the dominant surface processes controlled by either a plate tectonics regime or alternative styles …
Structural analysis of a proposed Mesoarchean suture located immediately to the southwest of the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa–known as the Inyoni Shear Zone (ISZ) …
M de Wit, H Furnes, S MacLennan, M Doucouré… - Geoscience …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Makhonjwa Mountains, traditionally referred to as the Barberton Greenstone Belt, retain an iconic Paleoarchean archive against which numerical models of early earth …
Unraveling ancient melting processes is key to understanding how the earliest, tonalite- trondhjemite-granodiorite (TTG)-dominated continental crust formed from partial melting of …