The combined Hf and Nd isotope evolution of the depleted mantle requires Hadean continental formation

M Guo, J Korenaga - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
The onset and rates of continental growth are first-order indicators of early Earth dynamics,
and whether substantial crust existed in the Hadean or much later has long been debated …

Geochronology of the Daitari Greenstone Belt, Singhbhum Craton, India

J Jodder, A Hofmann, H Xie, MA Elburg, A Wilson - Precambrian Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Singhbhum Craton in India contains well-preserved Palaeoarchaean
greenstone belts that rival their Australian and South African counterparts, but their …

[HTML][HTML] The Singhbhum Craton (India) records a billion year of continental crust formation and modification

S Chatterjee, K Mezger, OP Pandey… - Chemical …, 2023 - Elsevier
The petrogenesis of continental crust from its ultimate mantle source can be reconstructed
from the element abundances and radiogenic isotope compositions of ideally pristine …

[HTML][HTML] The Paleoarchean Buffalo River komatiites: Progressive melting of a single large mantle plume beneath the growing Kaapvaal craton

T Netshidzivhe, S Tappe, AH Wilson, A Ishikawa… - Precambrian …, 2023 - Elsevier
Several Archean granitoid-greenstone terranes are exposed on the southeastern Kaapvaal
craton in South Africa, but they received little scientific attention compared to the archetypal …

Uranium-Pb ages of detrital zircon from the Mesoarchean Sukma and Neoarchean Bengpal supracrustal groups: Evidence for unconformable stratigraphic relations …

A Nandi, TV Kumar, E Babu, R Vadlamani - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2023 - Elsevier
Records of terrestrial detritus deposited since the Mesoarchean, preserved in sedimentary
basins on cratons, are useful in continental reconstruction. The southern segment of the …

Mobilization of Tungsten in Greenstone Belts of the Archean Kaapvaal and Singhbhum Cratons

N Messling, J Jodder, E Hegner… - Geochemistry …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Due to the inherently fluid‐mobile nature of W, the 182W record of the early Earth may have
been obscured by fluid‐induced mobilization of W. To investigate W mobilization in Archean …

Reworking of aged mafic crust in a Palaeoarchaean layered complex inferred from coupled Sm-Nd and Lu-Hf isotope systematics, Stolzburg Complex, Barberton …

R Bolhar, A Wilson, J Tusch, T Pettke… - Chemical …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Stolzburg Complex is a prominent and well-preserved Palaeo-to
Mesoarchaean layered ultramafic-mafic complex in the vicinity of the Barberton Greenstone …