[HTML][HTML] Stirred not shaken; critical evaluation of a proposed Archean meteorite impact in West Greenland

C Yakymchuk, CL Kirkland, AJ Cavosie, K Szilas… - Earth and Planetary …, 2021 - Elsevier
Large meteorite impacts have a profound effect on the Earth's geosphere, atmosphere,
hydrosphere and biosphere. It is widely accepted that the early Earth was subject to intense …

Lu–Hf, Sm–Nd, and U–Pb isotopic coupling and decoupling in apatite

J Gillespie, CL Kirkland, PD Kinny, A Simpson… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2022 - Elsevier
Apatite is a useful geochronological tool due to its common occurrence and incorporation of
a variety of radioactive parent isotopes during crystallisation. However, an understanding of …

Archean sodic metagranitoids from the Southern São Francisco Craton: Review, petrogenesis, and tectonic implications

MB Simon, EM Bongiolo, CA Avila, W Teixeira… - Lithos, 2021 - Elsevier
Gray gneiss complexes comprise most of the Archean crust in the Southern São Francisco
Craton and its surroundings, and their metagranitoid components can be distinguished …

Dating mylonitic overprinting of ancient rocks

CL Kirkland, HKH Olierook, M Danišík… - … Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
Deformation in shear zones is difficult to date because mylonites can preserve partially reset
pre-existing isotopic signatures. However, mylonites can be key structural elements in …

[HTML][HTML] Geochemical and thermodynamic constraints on Archean comagmatic volcanic and cumulate rocks from southern West Greenland

L Zhang, WR Hyde, CL Kirkland, Y Han… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2023 - Elsevier
The extensive exposure of the Archean continental crust in southern West Greenland makes
it an important window into the tectonic evolution of early Earth. Here, we provide a …

Age and petrogenesis of Archaean chromitite from the Seqi Ultramafic Complex, southern West Greenland

J Wang, P Cai, J Yang, K Szilas, D Lian, Z Luo, F Xiong - Lithos, 2024 - Elsevier
The chromite deposits of the Seqi Ultramafic Complex are part of layered ultramafic bodies
that occur within Mesoarchaean tonalitic orthogneiss in the 3.2–3.0 Ga Akia Terrane of the …

Extent and age of Mesoarchean components in the Nagssugtoqidian orogen, West Greenland: Implications for tectonic environments and crust building in cratonic …

T McIntyre, P Waterton, A Vezinet, K Szilas… - Lithos, 2021 - Elsevier
The Nagssugtoqidian orogen (NO), which forms the northern margin of the North Atlantic
craton in West Greenland, is largely comprised of~ 2870 to 2720 Ma juvenile continental …

Regional zircon U-Pb geochronology for the Maniitsoq region, southwest Greenland

HKH Olierook, CL Kirkland, JA Hollis, NJ Gardiner… - Scientific Data, 2021 - nature.com
Zircon U-Pb geochronology places high-temperature geological events into temporal
context. Here, we present a comprehensive zircon U-Pb geochronology dataset for the Meso …

Isotopic modelling of Archean crustal evolution from comagmatic zircon–apatite pairs

J Gillespie, PD Kinny, CL Kirkland, L Martin… - Earth and Planetary …, 2021 - Elsevier
The composition of Earth's early crust is challenging to assess as only a fragmented record
remains. As a consequence, deciphering the composition of early crust as a means to …

The Mesoarchean Amikoq Layered Complex of SW Greenland: Part 2. Geochemical evidence for high-Mg noritic plutonism through crustal assimilation

E Aarestrup, I McDonald, PEB Armitage… - Mineralogical …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Whole-rock major-and trace-element data are presented on a sample collection from the> 3
Ga Amikoq Layered Complex (ALC), and hosting amphibolites within the Mesoarchean Akia …