Episodic, mafic crust formation from 4.5 to 2.8 Ga: New evidence from detrital zircons, Slave craton, Canada

Geology

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 875-878

  Pietranik, A B ^a,b   Hawkesworth, C J ^b   Storey, C D ^b   Kemp, A I S ^c   Sircombe, K N ^d   Whitehouse, M J ^e   Bleeker, W ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^e SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^f GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; CRUST FORMATIONS; DETRITAL ZIRCON; NEW MATERIAL; SECULAR EVOLUTION;

EXTRACTION; HAFNIUM; ZIRCON;

GALLIUM;

ARCHEAN; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HADEAN; MAFIC ROCK; ZIRCON;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 63249095392     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G24861A.1     Document Type: Review

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