Crustal rejuvenation stabilised Earth’s first cratons

Why Earth’s crust only started becoming widely preserved in the Eoarchaean, 500 Ma after planetary accretion, is poorly understood. Here, the authors document a shift to juvenile magmatic sources in the early Eoarchaean, linking crustal preservation to the formation of stabilising melt-depleted mant...

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Main Authors: Jacob A. Mulder, Oliver Nebel, Nicholas J. Gardiner, Peter A. Cawood, Ashlea N. Wainwright, Timothy J. Ivanic
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23805-6