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    No evidence for high-pressure melting of Earth’s crust in the Archean

    Much of the present-day volume of Earth’s continental crust had formed by the end of the Archean Eon, 2.5 billion years ago, through the conversion of basaltic (mafic) crust into sodic granite of tonalite, tro...

    Robert H. Smithies, Yongjun Lu, Tim E. Johnson in Nature Communications (2019)