Fifty years of the Eoarchean and the case for evolving uniformitarianism

AP Nutman, VC Bennett, CRL Friend, A Polat… - Precambrian …, 2021 - Elsevier
It is 50 years since the landmark paper where Black et al.(1971) presented whole-rock Pb-
Pb and Rb-Sr isotopic evidence for some rocks in Greenland surviving from Earth's first …

Decoding the onset of ca. 3.8 Ga continental nuclei in Anshan, North China: A review integrated with 1: 10,000 geological map**, zircon U–Pb dating, and Si–O–Nd …

K Lei, YF Wang, Q Zhang, JH Zhang, W **… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Archean Anshan Complex (AAC) in northeastern China is one of the best-
preserved ca. 3.8 Ga outcrops worldwide, which are key to understanding the evolution of …

Vestiges of impact-driven three-phase mixing in the chemistry and structure of Earth's mantle

J Korenaga, S Marchi - Proceedings of the National …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Highly siderophile elements (HSEs; namely Ru, Rh, Pd, Re, Os, Ir, Pt, and Au) in Earth's
mantle require the addition of metals after the formation of Earth's core. Early, large …

The Eoarchean Muzidian gneiss complex: Long-lived Hadean crustal components in the building of Archean continents

D Wang, XF Qiu, RW Carlson - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2023 - Elsevier
The nature of Earth's first crust and the processes that formed it are poorly constrained due
to limited exposures of> 3.7 billion-year-old (Ga) rocks. Here we report the discovery of a …

Long-term core–mantle interaction explains W-He isotope heterogeneities

AL Ferrick, J Korenaga - Proceedings of the National …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The isotopic characteristics of ocean island basalts have long been used to infer the nature
of their source and the long-term evolution of the Earth's mantle. Anticorrelation between …

Ni isotopes provide a glimpse of Earth's pre-late-veneer mantle

Y Xu, K Szilas, L Zhang, JM Zhu, G Wu, J Zhang… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Moderately siderophile (eg, Ni) and highly siderophile elements (HSEs) in the bulk silicate
Earth (BSE) are believed to be partly or near-completely delivered by late accretion after the …

The komatiite testimony to ancient mantle heterogeneity

IS Puchtel, J Blichert-Toft, MF Horan, M Touboul… - Chemical …, 2022 - Elsevier
Komatiites are crystallized samples of high-temperature, high-MgO lavas that were common
during the Archean, but became increasingly rarer in the Proterozoic and Phanerozoic …

Convective isolation of Hadean mantle reservoirs through Archean time

J Tusch, C Münker, E Hasenstab… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Although Earth has a convecting mantle, ancient mantle reservoirs that formed within the first
100 Ma of Earth's history (Hadean Eon) appear to have been preserved through geologic …

Evidence for a missing late veneer from 182W and 142Nd systematics in the Archean São Francisco Craton

FP Leitzke, JJ Pakulla, J Tusch, A Ravindran… - Earth and Planetary …, 2024 - Elsevier
The oldest crustal remnants on Earth are represented by greenstone belts and tonalite-
trondhjemite-granodiorite (TTG) associations that form most of Archean blocks worldwide …

Origin of the analytical 183 W effect and its implications for tungsten isotope analyses

G Budde, GJ Archer, FLH Tissot, S Tappe… - Journal of Analytical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Mass-independent tungsten isotope variations provide critical insights into the timing and
nature of processes that occurred in the early Solar System and during planetary …