Hafnium isotope evidence for a transition in the dynamics of continental growth 3.2â €‰Gyr ago

Nature

Volumn 485, Issue 7400, 2012, Pages 627-630

  Naeraa T ^a,b   Schersten A ^c   Rosing, M T ^b   Kemp, A I S ^d,e   Hoffmann, J E ^f,g   Kokfelt, T F ^a   Whitehouse, M J ^h  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^e JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^h SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HAFNIUM; LEAD; OXYGEN; URANIUM; ZIRCONIUM;

ACCRETION; ARCHEAN; CONTINENTAL CRUST; HAFNIUM; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; OROGENY; PLATE TECTONICS;

ARTICLE; CONTINENTAL GROWTH; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; WEST GREENLAND;

EID: 84867599827     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11140     Document Type: Article

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