Do cenozoic analogues support a plate tectonic origin for earth's earliest continental crust?

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 495-498

  Hastie, Alan R ^a   Kerr, Andrew C ^a   McDonald, Iain ^a   Mitchell, Simon F ^b   Pearce, Julian A ^a   Wolstencroft, Martin ^a   Millar, Ian L ^c  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^c NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAKITES; ARCHEAN; CENOZOIC; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; GEOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; OCEANIC CRUST; OCEANIC PLATEAUX; PARTIAL MELTING; PLATE TECTONICS; SUBDUCTION ZONES; THERMO-CHEMICAL MANTLE CONVECTIONS; TONALITE;

GALLIUM; IGNEOUS ROCKS;

TECTONICS;

ADAKITE; ARCHEAN; CENOZOIC; CONTINENTAL CRUST; DACITE; GRANODIORITE; MANTLE CONVECTION; OCEANIC CRUST; PARTIAL MELTING; PLATE TECTONICS; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC SETTING; THERMOCHEMISTRY; TONALITE; TRONDHJEMITE;

JAMAICA;

EID: 77955951642     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G30778.1     Document Type: Article

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