Ophiolite genesis and global tectonics: Geochemical and tectonic fingerprinting of ancient oceanic lithosphere

Y Dilek, H Furnes - Bulletin, 2011 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Ophiolites, and discussions on their origin and significance in Earth's history, have been
instrumental in the formulation, testing, and establishment of hypotheses and theories in …

Archean dome-and-basin style structures form during growth and death of intraoceanic and continental margin arcs in accretionary orogens

T Kusky, BF Windley, A Polat, L Wang, W Ning… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Determining whether plate tectonics or some other mode of planetary dynamics operated in
the early Archean is one of the most contentious and debated areas of Earth Sciences today …

Characterisation of early Archaean chemical sediments by trace element signatures

R Bolhar, BS Kamber, S Moorbath, CM Fedo… - Earth and Planetary …, 2004 - Elsevier
Rare earth element (REE) plus yttrium (Y) patterns of modern seawater have characteristic
features that can be used as chemical fingerprints. Reliable proxies for marine REE+ Y …

13C-Depleted Carbon Microparticles in >3700-Ma Sea-Floor Sedimentary Rocks from West Greenland

MT Rosing - Science, 1999 - science.org
Turbiditic and pelagic sedimentary rocks from the Isua supracrustal belt in west Greenland
[more than 3700 million years ago (Ma)] contain reduced carbon that is likely biogenic. The …

Age significance of U–Th–Pb zircon data from early Archaean rocks of west Greenland—a reassessment based on combined ion-microprobe and imaging studies …

MJ Whitehouse, BS Kamber, S Moorbath - Chemical geology, 2001 - Elsevier
The geochronological evolution of early Archaean Amı̂tsoq gneisses from southern West
Greenland is reassessed here using the well-established cathodoluminescence imaging …

Archaean greenstone belts and associated granitic rocks–a review

CR Anhaeusser - Journal of African Earth Sciences, 2014 - Elsevier
Archaean greenstone belts and associated granitic rocks comprise some of the most diverse
rock types on the Earth's surface and were formed during the early stages of the …