Low heat flow inferred from >4 Gyr zircons suggests Hadean plate boundary interactions

Nature

Volumn 456, Issue 7221, 2008, Pages 493-496

  Hopkins, Michelle ^a   Harrison, T Mark ^a   Manning, Craig E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MINERAL; SILICON DIOXIDE; ZIRCONIUM;

BAROMETRY; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CONVERGENT MARGIN; GEOCHEMISTRY; HADEAN; HEAT FLOW; HYDROSPHERE; INCLUSION; MAGMA; MAGMATISM; PLATE BOUNDARY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; ZIRCON;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; AUSTRALIA; ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; EVOLUTION; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOLOGY; HEAT; MINERALOGY; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; SPECTROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; JACK HILLS; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 57049185326     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07465     Document Type: Article

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