Multidisciplinary constraints on the abundance of diamond and eclogite in the cratonic lithosphere

JM Garber, S Maurya, JA Hernandez… - Geochemistry …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Some seismic models derived from tomographic studies indicate elevated shear‐wave
velocities (≥ 4.7 km/s) around 120–150 km depth in cratonic lithospheric mantle. These …

The structural evolution of the deep continental lithosphere

CM Cooper, MS Miller, L Moresi - Tectonophysics, 2017 - Elsevier
Continental lithosphere houses the oldest and thickest regions of the Earth's surface. Locked
within this deep and ancient rock record lies invaluable information about the dynamics that …

Davis Strait Paleocene picrites: Products of a plume or plates?

DB Clarke, EK Beutel - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Voluminous, subaerial, ultra-depleted, 62 Ma, primary picritic lavas lie on conjugate
volcanic margins on both sides of Davis Strait separating Baffin Island and West Greenland …

Seismic imaging of the lithosphere beneath Hudson Bay: Episodic growth of the Laurentian mantle keel

FA Darbyshire, DW Eaton, ID Bastow - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2013 - Elsevier
The Hudson Bay basin in northern Canada conceals one of the major collisional zones of
the Canadian Shield, the Trans-Hudson Orogen (THO), which marks the Paleoproterozoic …

Formation of cratonic mantle keels by arc accretion: Evidence from S receiver functions

MS Miller, DW Eaton - Geophysical Research Letters, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Delineating mantle interfaces can provide important clues for understanding the formation of
continents. We use S‐wave receiver functions to investigate lithospheric structure along a …

Lithospheric architecture beneath H udson B ay

RW Porritt, MS Miller… - Geochemistry, Geophysics …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Hudson Bay overlies some of the thickest Precambrian lithosphere on Earth, whose internal
structures contain important clues to the earliest workings of plate formation. The terminal …

The nature and thickness of lithosphere beneath the Archean Dharwar Craton, southern India: A magnetotelluric model

K Naganjaneyulu, M Santosh - Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2012 - Elsevier
The Dharwar Craton in the southern Indian shield region occupies a key position in
reconstructions of the earliest supercontinent “Ur” as well as in the global Neoarchean …

NACr14: A 3D model for the crustal structure of the North American Continent

M Tesauro, MK Kaban, WD Mooney, S Cloetingh - Tectonophysics, 2014 - Elsevier
Based on the large number of crustal seismic experiments carried out in the last decades we
create NACr14, a 3D crustal model of the North American continent at a resolution of 1°× 1° …

Magmatic rifting in the Main Ethiopian Rift began in thick continental lithosphere; the case of the Galema Range

B Chiasera, TO Rooney, ID Bastow, G Yirgu… - Lithos, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The northern Main Ethiopian Rift (MER) in East Africa is considered a region of
incipient oceanic spreading, with Miocene border faulting now largely abandoned at the …

Biosignatures associated with organic matter in late Paleoproterozoic stromatolitic dolomite and implications for Martian carbonates

A Goodwin, D Papineau - Astrobiology, 2022 - liebertpub.com
The documentation of biosignatures in Precambrian rocks is an important requirement in the
search for evidence of life on other ancient planetary surfaces. Three major kinds of …