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Multiple thermal events recorded in the Acasta Gneiss Complex: Evidence from in-situ dating of zircon, titanite, and apatite
In-situ dating of the zircons, titanites, and apatites in the rock fragments of approximately 1 cm 2 in size from the Acasta Gneiss Complex was...
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Nature of the Two Episodes of Paleoproterozoic Magmatism (2495 Ma and 2190 Ma) in the Trans-North China Orogen, North China, with Implications for the Tectonic Evolution
Understanding the temporal and spatial evolution of the North China Craton (NCC) basement, formed by amalgamation, is a crucial issue in global...
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Zircon U–Pb geochronology from a Paleoproterozoic mafic dyke in the Jiapigou terrane (North China Craton): inferences about formation and evolution of the early crust
The formation and evolution of the ancient crust have long been popular issues in the field of Earth sciences. At present, crustal rocks with ages...
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The Dawn of Gaia
The gravitational aggregation of dust and fragments from the solar nebula into planetesimal and Earth-size bodies has culminated in melting and...
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Comparative Analysis of the Compositions of Archean and Phanerozoic Basalts: Possibilities and Limitations of Geodynamic Reconstructions on Geochemical Data
The chemical compositions of Phanerozoic basalts of all known geodynamic settings (mid-ocean ridges, oceanic plateaus, oceanic islands, island arcs,...
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Early Precambrian Plate Tectonics
ThePrecambrian" PrecambrianPrecambrian" comprises geologic time before 540 Ma, the time before the Cambrian. The term Precambrian has been used by...
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Multiple Melting of a Heterogeneous Mantle and Episodic Accretion of Oceanic Crust in a Spreading Zone: Zircon U-Pb Age and Hf-O Isotope Evidence from an Oceanic Core Complex of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
This paper synthesizes available and original U-Pb geochronological and hafnium and oxygen isotope data on zircon from gabbro and peridotites in the...
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182W anomalies in mantle: a brief review
With significant advances in mass spectrometry for isotope analysis in the last decade, e.g., negative thermal ionization mass spectrometry and...
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Late veneer and the origins of volatiles of Earth
Late veneer is an important paradigm in early Earth and planetary studies. It refers to the late addition of extraterrestrial materials to the...
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Mineral-scale insights into the petrogenesis of the 3.30 Ga rhyolite in the Contendas-Mirante region, northern São Francisco Craton, Brazil: implications from results of plagioclase and biotite analyses
The 3.30 Ga high-silica volcanic system of the Gavião Block, São Francisco Craton, represents the remnants of within-plate magmatism related to an...
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Planet Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun in the solar system and the only one known in the Universe to host living beings. Earth appears like a blue...
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Onset of the Earth’s hydrological cycle four billion years ago or earlier
Widespread interaction between meteoric (fresh) water and emerged continental crust on the early Earth may have been key to the emergence of life,...
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Earth Systems Science (ESS) and Systems Ecology
Earth systems science (ESS) is a science that is strongly linked to biogeochemistry, through its study of the earth systems (lithosphere,...
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Re-Os Isotope and HSE Abundance Systematics of the 2.9 Ga Komatiites and Basalts from the Sumozero-Kenozero Greenstone Belt, SE Fennoscandian Shield: Implications for the Mixing Rates of the Mantle
AbstractRhenium-Os isotope and highly siderophile element (HSE, including Re, Os, Ir, Ru, Pt, and Pd) abundance systematics of Archean komatiites can...
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The progressive onset and evolution of Precambrian subduction and plate tectonics
The regime of plate tectonics on early Earth is one of the fundamental problems in Earth sciences. Precambrian era takes the majority (ca. 88%) of...
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An impact melt origin for Earth’s oldest known evolved rocks
Earth’s oldest evolved (felsic) rocks, the 4.02-billion-year-old Idiwhaa gneisses of the Acasta Gneiss Complex, northwest Canada, have compositions...
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Neoarchean crust–mantle interactions from the Eastern Dharwar Craton: Insights from mineral chemistry of the Nizamabad granites, southern India
AbstractWe present field, petrographic and mineral compositions of biotite, amphibole, and feldspars from Neoarchean Nizamabad granites from the...
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Fundamentals of Lithostructural Map**: Example from the SW Part of the Proterozoic Bhima Basin, Karnataka, India: A Note on Dharwarian Crustal Evolution
Lithostructural map** in any type of geological terrains like the younger Himalayan mountain or the older Archaean Cratons has always been an...