Evolution of the Archaean crust by delamination and shallow subduction

Nature

Volumn 421, Issue 6920, 2003, Pages 249-252

  Foley, Stephen F ^a   Buhre, Stephan ^b   Jacob, Dorrit E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; EARTH SCIENCES; HEAT TRANSFER; MAGNESIUM DEPOSITS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

METAMORPHIC REACTIONS; OCEANIC CRUSTS;

DELAMINATION;

HAFNIUM; NIOBIUM; TANTALUM; ZIRCONIUM;

ARCHEAN; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; DELAMINATION; MANTLE CONVECTION; METAMORPHISM; OCEANIC CRUST; SUBDUCTION;

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GEOLOGY; MODEL; OCEANIC REGIONS; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMODYNAMICS; TIME;

ARCHAEA;

EID: 0346003767     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01319     Document Type: Article

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