BACKGROUND For more than 100 years, the melt-dominated magma chamber has been
central to conceptual models of volcanism and igneous processes. Over the past few …

Magma reservoirs play a key role in controlling numerous processes in planetary evolution,
including igneous differentiation and degassing, crustal construction, and volcanism. For …

Much of the current volume of Earth's continental crust had formed by the end of the
Archaean eon (2.5 billion years ago), through melting of hydrated basaltic rocks at depths of …

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 …

Granite petrogenesis is associated with the formation and evolution of continental crust
along convergent plate boundaries. While magmatic processes such as partial melting and …

Abstract Analysis of δ 18 O in igneous zircons of known age traces the evolution of
intracrustal recycling and crust-mantle interaction through time. This record is especially …

The strong resilience of the mineral zircon and its ability to host a wealth of isotopic
information make it the best deep-time archive of Earth's continental crust. Zircon is found in …

Isotopic and trace element analysis of zircons can provide reliable and robust estimates of
age, compositions of coexisting minerals and melts, and constraints on the genesis and …

Ancient zircons from Western Australia's Jack Hills preserve a record of conditions that
prevailed on Earth not long after its formation. Widely considered to have been a uniquely …

A combined study of zircon U–Pb and Lu–Hf isotopes, mineral O isotopes, whole-rock
elements and Sr–Nd isotopes was carried out for Neoproterozoic volcanics and granites …