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 …

This work examines the global distribution of Archaean and modern igneous rock's
compositions, without relying on preconceptions about the link between rock compositions …

The vestiges of life in Eoarchean rocks have the potential to elucidate the origin of life.
However, gathering evidence from many terrains is not always possible,,, and biogenic …

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 …

Plate tectonics describes the horizontal motion of rigid lithospheric plates away from
midoceanic ridges and parallel to transforms, towards deep-sea trenches, where the …

Ophiolitic podiform chromitites from Phanerozoic orogens have been shown to preserve a
wealth of textures and inclusions that, in some way, trace earlier episodes of subduction and …

Graphite in metasedimentary rocks of the Eoarchean Saglek-Hebron Gneiss Complex
(Canada) is depleted in 13C and has been interpreted as one of the oldest traces of life on …

Determining the mechanisms by which the earliest continental crust was generated and
reworked is important for constraining the evolution of Earth's geodynamic, surface, and …

Recycling of crust into the mantle has left only small remnants at Earth's surface of crust
produced within a billion years of Earth formation. Few, if any, of these ancient crustal rocks …

Abstract The North Atlantic craton hosts extensive exposures of Eoarchean crust, spread
through areas of Western Greenland and Northern Labrador (Canada). Of these two areas …