Formation of Paleoarchean continental crust through infracrustal melting of enriched basalt

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 281, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 298-306

  Smithies, R H ^a   Champion, D C ^b   Van Kranendonk, M J ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

crustal evolution; enriched basalt; infracrustal melting; Paleoarchean; source regions; tonalite trondhjemite granodiorite (TTG)

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; ENRICHED BASALT; INFRACRUSTAL MELTING; PALEOARCHEAN; SOURCE REGIONS; TONALITE-TRONDHJEMITE-GRANODIORITE (TTG);

BASALT; MELTING; RECYCLING;

GALLIUM;

ANDESITE; ARCHEAN; BASALT; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; GRANODIORITE; MANTLE SOURCE; MELTING; TONALITE; TRONDHJEMITE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; PILBARA BLOCK; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 64549123422     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.03.003     Document Type: Article

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