Mineral environments on the earliest Earth

Elements

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 25-30

  Papineau, Dominic ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Archean; Banded iron formation; Hadean; Mineral evolution; Origin of life; Supracrustal rocks; Tonalite trondhjemite granodiorite

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY;

ARCHEAN; BANDED IRON FORMATIONS; GRANODIORITE; HADEAN; MINERAL EVOLUTIONS; ORIGIN OF LIFE; SUPRACRUSTAL ROCKS;

MINERALS;

ARCHEAN; BANDED IRON FORMATION; GRANODIORITE; HADEAN; MINERALOGY; SUPRACRUSTAL ROCK; TONALITE; TRONDHJEMITE;

EID: 77649289252     PISSN: 18115209     EISSN: 18115217     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gselements.6.1.25     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Black LP, Williams IS, Compston W (1986) Four zircon ages from one rock: the history of a 3930 Ma-old granulite from Mount Sones, Enderby Land, Antarctica. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 94: 427-437
2. Böhm CO, Heaman LM, Stern RA, Corkery MT, Creaser RA (2003) Nature of Assean lake ancient crust, Manitoba: a combined SHRIMP-ID-TIMS U-Pb geochronology and Sm-Nd isotope study. Precambrian Research 126: 55-94
3. Bowring SA, Williams IS (1999) Priscoan (4.00-4.03 Ga) orthogneisses from northwestern Canada. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 134: 3-16
4. Cates NL, Mojzsis SJ (2007) Pre-3750 Ma supracrustal rocks from the Nuvvuagittuq supracrustal belt, northern Québec. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 255: 9-21
5. Cavosie AJ, Valley JW, Wilde SA, E.I.M.F. (2005) Magmatic δ18O in 4400-3900 Ma detrital zircons: A record of the alteration and recycling of crust in the Early Archean. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 235: 663-681
6. Cody GD (2005) Geochemical connections to primitive metabolism. Elements 1: 139-143
7. Dauphas N, van Zuilen M, Wadhwa M, Davis AM, Marty B, Janney PE (2004) Clues from Fe isotope variations on the origin of early Archean BIFs from Greenland. Science 306: 2077-2080
8. David J, Parent M, Stevenson R, Nadeau P, Godin L (2002) La séquence supracrustale de Porpoise Cove, région d'Inukjuak; un exemple unique de crôte paléo-archéenne (ca. 3.8 Ga) dans la Province du Supérieur. Ministère des Ressources naturelles et de la Faune, Québec, DV 2002-2010: 17
9. Goldich SS, Hedge CE (1974) 3,800-Myr granitic gneiss in south-western Minnesota. Nature 252: 467-468
10. Harley SL, Kelly NM (2007) Ancient Antarctica: the Archaean of the East Antarctic Shield. In: van Kranendonk MJ, Smithies RH, Bennett VC (eds) Earth's Oldest Rocks. Developments in Precambrian Geology 15, Elsevier, pp 149-186
11. Hazen RM, Ferry JM (2010) Mineral evolution: Mineralogy in the fourth dimension. Elements 6: 9-12
12. Hazen RM, Papineau D, Bleeker W, Downs RT, Ferry JM, McCoy TJ, Sverjensky DA, Yang H (2008) Mineral evolution. American Mineralogist 93: 1693-1720
13. Hopkins M, Harrison TM, Manning CE (2008) Low heat fl ow inferred from >4 Gyr zircons suggests Hadean plate boundary interactions. Nature 456: 493-496
14. Iizuka T, Komiya T, Ueno Y, Maruyama S (2007) The early Archean Acasta Gneiss Complex: geological, geochronological and isotopic studies, and implications for early crustal evolution. In: van Kranendonk MJ, Smithies RH, Bennett VC (eds) Earth's Oldest Rocks. Developments in Precambrian Geology 15, Elsevier, pp 127-147
15. Kinny PD, Williams IS, Froude DO, Ireland TR, Compston W (1988) Early archaean zircon ages from orthogneisses and anorthosites at Mount Narryer, Western Australia. Precambrian Research 38: 325-341
16. Klein C (2005) Some Precambrian banded iron-formations (BIFs) from around the world: Their age, geologic setting, mineralogy, metamorphism, geochemistry, and origins. American Mineralogist 90: 1473-1499
17. Kröner A, Hegner E, Wendt JI, Byerly GR (1996) The oldest part of the Barberton granitoid-greenstone terrain, South Africa: evidence for crust formation between 3.5 and 3.7 Ga. Precambrian Research 78: 105-124
18. Liu DY, Nutman AP, Compston W, Wu JS, Shen QH (1992) Remnants of ≥3800 Ma crust in the Chinese part of the Sino- Korean craton. Geology 20: 339-342
19. Liu DY, Wilde SA, Wan YS, Wu JS, Zhou HY, Dong CY, Yin XY (2008) New U-Pb and Hf isotopic data confi rm Anshan as the oldest preserved segment of the North China Craton. American Journal of Science 308: 200-231
20. Mojzsis SJ, Arrhenius G, McKeegan KD, Harrison TM, Nutman AP, Friend CRL (1996) Evidence for life on Earth before 3,800 million years ago. Nature 384: 55-59
21. Mojzsis SJ, Harrison TM, Pidgeon RT (2001) Oxygen-isotope evidence from ancient zircons for liquid water at the Earth's surface 4,300 Myr ago. Nature 409: 178-181
22. Mojzsis SJ, Coath CD, Greenwood JP, McKeegan KD, Harrison TM (2003) Mass-independent isotope effects in Archean (2.5 to 3.8 Ga) sedimentary sulfi des determined by ion microprobe analysis. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 67: 1635-1658
23. Nemchin AA, Whitehouse MJ, Menneken M, Geisler T, Pidgeon RT, Wilde SA (2008) A light carbon reservoir recorded in zircon-hosted diamond from the Jack Hills. Nature 454: 92-95
24. Nutman AP, Friend CRL (2009) New 1:20,000 scale geological maps, synthesis and history of investigation of the Isua supracrustal belt and adjacent orthogneisses, southern West Greenland: A glimpse of Eoarchean crust formation and orogeny. Precambrian Research 172: 189-211
25. Nutman AP, Fryer BJ, Bridgwater D (1989) The early Archaean Nulliak (supracrustal) assemblage, northern Labrador. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 26: 2159-2168
26. Nutman AP, Friend CRL, Horie K, Hidaka H (2007) The Itsaq Gneiss Complex of southern West Greenland and the construction of Eoarchean crust at convergent plate boundaries. In: van Kranendonk MJ, Smithies RH, Bennett VC (eds) Earth's Oldest Rocks. Developments in Precambrian Geology 15, Elsevier, pp 187-218
27. O'Neil J, Maurice C, Stevenson RK, Larocque J, Cloquet C, David J, Francis D (2007) The geology of the 3.8 Ga Nuvvuagittuq (Porpoise Cove) greenstone belt, northeastern Superior Province, Canada. In: van Kranendonk MJ, Smithies RH, Bennett VC (eds) Earth's Oldest Rocks. Developments in Precambrian Geology 15, Elsevier, pp 219-250
28. O'Neil J, Carlson RW, Francis D, Stevenson RK (2008) Neodymium-142 evidence for Hadean mafic crust. Science 321: 1828-1831
29. Papineau D, Mojzsis SJ (2006) Massindependent fractionation of sulfur isotopes in sulfi des from the pre-3770 Ma Isua Supracrustal Belt, West Greenland. Geobiology 4: 227-238
30. Papineau D, Mojzsis SJ, Karhu JA, Marty B (2005) Nitrogen isotopic composition of ammoniated phyllosilicates: case studies from Precambrian metamorphosed sedimentary rocks. Chemical Geology 216: 37-58
31. Rose NM, Rosing MT, Bridgwater D (1996) The origin of metacarbonate rocks in the Archaean Isua supracrustal belt, West Greenland. American Journal of Science 296: 1004-1044
32. Rosing MT (1999) 13C-depleted carbon microparticles in >3700-Ma sea-floor sedimentary rocks from West Greenland. Science 283: 674-676
33. Schiøtte L, Compston W, Bridgwater D (1989) Ion probe U-Th-Pb zircon dating of polymetamorphic orthogneisses from northern Labrador, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 26: 1533-1556
34. Schopf JW (2006) The fi rst billion years: When did life emerge? Elements 2: 229-233
35. Trail D, Mojzsis SJ, Harrison TM (2004) Inclusion mineralogy of pre-4.0 Ga zircons from Jack Hills, Western Australia: A progress report. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 68: A743
36. Wilde SA, Valley JW, Peck WH, Graham CM (2001) Evidence from detrital zircons for the existence of continental crust and oceans on Earth 4.4 Gyr ago. Nature 409: 175-178