About 30% of the Earth is covered by continents, but only about 10 small kernels of these
continentsae—known as Archaean cratonsae—are continental fragments formed before 2.5 …

Determining whether plate tectonics or some other mode of planetary dynamics operated in
the early Archean is one of the most contentious and debated areas of Earth Sciences today …

Granitoids of the tonalite–trondhjemite–granodiorite (TTG) series dominate Earth's earliest
continental crust. The geochemical diversity of TTGs is ascribed to several possible …

This book provides a history of the Earth which will enable the reader to gain an integrated
overview of many aspects of earth sciences. The author assesses the evidence from the …

Holes drilled into the volcanic and ultrabasic basement of the Izu-Ogasawara and Mariana
forearc terranes during Leg 125 provide data on some of the earliest lithosphere created …

Page 1 Granitoid Rocks DB Clarke BSc, MA, PhD Department of Earth Sciences Dalhousie
University Halifax Nova Scotia Canada kluwer the language of science Page 2 Page 3 …

New and compiled oxygen isotope data combined with the results of geological and
sedimentological studies demonstrate that enclaves of synsedimentary to very early …

The granite-and-greenstone terrains that dominate upper crust formed from about 3.6 to
about 2.6 Ga, and record magmatic and tectonic processes very different from those of a …

The Itsaq Gneiss Complex of southern West Greenland contains the best-preserved
occurrences of⩾ 3600 Ma crust. Its known area is∼ 3000 km2 with almost continuous …

I review geologic evidence for Archean plate tectonic processes within the framework of
geophysical, geochemical and experimental observations. For the Late Archean (2.5–3.0 …