Earth's first two billion years-The era of internally mobile crust

Memoir of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 200, Issue , 2007, Pages 233-296

  Hamilton, Warren B ^a  

^a Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Archean; Crustal evolution; Delamination; Hadean; Mantle evolution; Subduction

Indexed keywords

BASALT; DEFORMATION; DELAMINATION; DOMES; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; MELTING; SEDIMENTS; TECTONICS;

ARCHEAN; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; HADEAN; MANTLE EVOLUTION; SUBDUCTION;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

ARCHEAN; COHESION; CRUST; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; CRYSTALLIZATION; DELAMINATION; DIAPIRISM; GEOLOGY; GREENSTONE; HADEAN; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LITHOSPHERE; LOWER CRUST; MAGMATISM; MANTLE; OCEANIC CRUST; PARTIAL MELTING; PHANEROZOIC; PLATE TECTONICS; RIFTING; SUBDUCTION; UPPER MANTLE; VOLCANISM;

EID: 40949112171     PISSN: 00721069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2007.1200(13)     Document Type: Conference Paper

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