Layered Archean lower continental crust: Constraints from granulite terrains and xenoliths

D Liu, N Jiang, J Guo, L Zhao, J Hu, G Huang, P Liu… - Chemical …, 2024 - Elsevier
Our understanding of crust–mantle differentiation is hampered by the large uncertainty in the
composition of the inaccessible lower continental crust. The lower-crustal estimates derived …

Metamorphic history of the Precambrian lower cratonic crust from U-Pb dating of granulite xenoliths (Anabar province, Siberia)

M Koreshkova, H Downes, M Stifeeva… - … to Mineralogy and …, 2024 - Springer
Garnet granulite xenoliths from the Nurbinskaya diatreme in the central part of the Archean
Anabar province in Siberia are fragments of the local lower crust that experienced multiple …

Lead Isotopes Constrain Precambrian Crustal Architecture, Thermal History and Lithospheric Foundering in Laurentia

IW Hillenbrand - Terra Nova, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT Laurentia (ancestral North America) records nearly 4 billion years of crustal
evolution. Here, a newly compiled continental‐scale Pb isotopic database is used to …