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    Giant impacts and the origin and evolution of continents

    Earth is the only planet known to have continents, although how they formed and evolved is unclear. Here using the oxygen isotope compositions of dated magmatic zircon, we show that the Pilbara Craton in Weste...

    Tim E. Johnson, Christopher L. Kirkland, Yongjun Lu, R. Hugh Smithies… in Nature (2022)

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    Correction: Corrigendum: Earth’s first stable continents did not form by subduction

    Nature 543, 239–242 (2017); doi:10.1038/nature21383 In this Letter we omitted to cite a paper1 that also used recently developed thermodynamic models2 to predict the melting process in Archaean metabasaltic ro...

    Tim E. Johnson, Michael Brown, Nicholas J. Gardiner, Christopher L. Kirkland… in Nature (2017)

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    Earth’s first stable continents did not form by subduction

    Phase equilibria modelling of rocks from Western Australia confirms that the ancient continental crust could have formed by multistage melting of basaltic ‘parents’ along high geothermal gradients—a process in...

    Tim E. Johnson, Michael Brown, Nicholas J. Gardiner, Christopher L. Kirkland… in Nature (2017)

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    Progressive mixing of meteoritic veneer into the early Earth’s deep mantle

    Maier et al. have sampled a class of volcanic rocks called komatiites, which are indirect samples of the deepest portions of the Earth's mantle mainly from the Archaean era. It is generally thought that the mantl...

    Wolfgang D. Maier, Stephen J. Barnes, Ian H. Campbell, Marco L. Fiorentini… in Nature (2009)