Reading the geochemical fingerprints of archean hot subduction volcanic rocks: Evidence for accretion and crustal recycling in a mobile tectonic regime

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 164, Issue , 2006, Pages 189-213

  Polat, A ^a   Kerrich, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 85014291723     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/164GM13     Document Type: Chapter

References (227)

1. Andersen, T.B., P.T. Osmundsen, and L. Jolivet, Deep crustal fabrics and a model for extensional collapse of southwest Norwegian Caledonides, J. Struct. Geoi, 16, 1191-1203, 1994.
2. Andersen, T.B., K.P. Skjerlie, and H. Furnes, The Sunnfjord melange, evidence of Silurian ophiolite accretion in the West Norwegian Caledonides, J. Geol. Soc. London, 147, 59-68, 1990.
3. Arndt, N., G. Bruzak, and T. Reischmann, The oldest continental and oceanic plateaus-geochemistry of basalts and komatiites of the Pilbara Craton, Australia, in Mantle Plumes: Their Identification Through Time, Spec. Paper 352, edited by K.L Buchan, and R.E Ernst, pp. 1-30, Geol. Soc. Am., Boulder, CO, 2001.
4. Arndt, N.T., C. Ginibre, C. Chauvel, F. Albaréde, M. Cheadle, C. Herzberg, G. Jenner, and Y. Lahaye, Were komatiites wet? Geology, 26, 739-742, 1998.
5. Ayer, J, Y. Amelin, F. Corfu, S. Kamo, J. Ketchum, K. Kwok, and N. Trowell, Evolution of the southern Abitibi greenstone belt based on U-Pb geochronology: autochthonous volcanic construction followed by plutonism, regional deformation and sedimentation, Precam. Res., 115, 63-95, 2002.
6. Ayer, J.A., and J. Dostal, Nd and Pb isotopes from the Lake of the Woods greenstone belt, northwestern Ontario: implications for mantle evolution and the formation of crust in the southern Superior Province, Can. J. Earth Sci., 37, 1677-1689, 2000.
7. Ayres, L.D., and F. Corfu, Stacking of disparate volcanic and sedimentary units by thrusting in the Archean Favourable Lake greenstone belt, central Canada, Precam. Res., 50, 221-238, 1991.
8. Barker, RE, Tectonic framework of the East Scotia Sea, In: Backarc Basins: Tectonics and Magmatism, edited by B. Taylor, pp. 281-314, Plenum Press, New York, 1995.
9. Beccaluva, L., and G. Serri, Boninitic and low-Ti subduction-related lavas from intraoceanic arc-backarc systems and low-Ti ophiolites: a reappraisal of their petrogenesis and original tectonic setting, Tectonophysics, 146, 291-315, 1988.
10. Bédard, J.H., Petrogenesis of boninites from the Betts Cove Ophiolite, Newfoundland, Canada: Identification of subducted source components, J. Petrol., 40, 1853-1889, 1999.
11. Bédard, J.H., P. Brouillette, L. Madore, and A. Berclaz, Archean cra-tonization and deformation in the northern Superior Province, Canada: an evaluation of plate tectonics versus vertical tectonic models, Precam. Res., 127, 61-87, 2003.
12. Bédard, L.P., and J.N. Ludden, Nd-isotope evolution of Archean plu-tonic rocks in southeastern Superior Province, Can. J. Earth Sci., 34, 286-298, 1997.
13. Benoit, M., A. Aguillon-Robles, T. Calmus, R.C. Maury, H. Bellon, J. Cotton, J. Bourgois, and F. Michaud, Geochemical diversity of late Miocene volcanism in southern Baja California, Mexico: Implication of mantle and crustal sources during the opening of an asthenospheric window, J. Geol., 110, 627-648, 2002.
14. Bickle, M.J., Implications of melting for stabilisation of lithosphere and heat loss in the Archean, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 80, 314-324,1986.
15. Bickle, M.J., E.G. Nisbet, and A. Martin, Archean greenstone belts are not oceanic crust, J. Geol, 102, 121-138, 1994.
16. Blake, T.S., R. Buick, S.J.A. Brown, and M.E., Barley, Geochronology of a late Archean flood basalt province in the Pilbara Craton, Australia: constraints on basin evolution, volcanic and sedimentary accumulation, and continental drift rates, Precam. Res., 133, 143-173, 2004.
17. Bleeker, W., Archean tectonics: a review, with illustrations from the Slave craton, in The Early Earth: Physical, Chemical and Biological Development, Spec. Publ, 199, edited by C.M.R. Fowler, C.J. Ebinger, and C.J. Hawkesworth, pp. 151-181, Geol. Soc. London, London, 2002.
18. Blewett, R.S., Archean tectonic processes: a case for horizontal shortening in the north Pilbara granite-greenstone terrane, Western Australia, Precam. Res., 113, 87-120, 2002.
19. Boily, M., and C. Dion, Geochemistry of boninite-type volcanic rocks in the Frotet-Evans greenstone belt, Opatica subprovince, Québec: Implications for the evolution of Archean greenstone belt, Precam. Res., 115, 349-371, 2002.
20. Bouhallier, H., D. Chardon, and P. Choukroune, Strain patterns in Archean dome-and-basin structures: the Dharwar Craton [Karnataka, South India], Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 135, 57-75,1995.
21. Bourdon, E., J.P. Eissen, M. Monzier, C. Robin, H. Martin, J. Cotton, and M.L. Hall, Adakite-like lavas from Antisana volcano [Ecuador]: Evidence for slab melt metasomatism beneath the Andean Northern Volcanic Zone, J. Petrol, 43, 199-217, 2002.
22. Brown, A.V, and G.A. Jenner, Geological setting, petrology and chemistry of Cambrian boninite and low-Ti tholeiitic lavas in western Tasmania, in Boninites and Related Rocks, edited by A. J. Crawford, pp. 233-263, Unwin Hyman, London, 1989.
23. Burke, K., J.F. Dewey, and W.S.F. Kidd, Dominance of horizontal movements, arc and microcontinental collisions during the later permobile regime, in 77ze early History of the Earth, edited by B. F Windley, pp. 113-129, Wiley, London, 1976.
24. Calvert, A.J., A.R. Cruden, and A. Hynes, Seismic evidence for preservation of the Archean Uchi granite-greenstone belt by crustal scale extension. Tectonophysics, 388, 135-143, 2004.
25. Calvert, A.J., and J.N. Ludden, Archean continental assembly in the southeastern Superior province of Canada, Tectonics, 18, 412-429, 1999.
26. Campbell, I.H., and R.W. Griffiths, the changing nature of mantle hotspots through time: implications for the chemical evolution of the mantle, J. Geol, 92, 497-523, 1992.
27. Card, K.D., A review of the Superior Province of the Canadian Shield, a product of Archean accretion, Precam. Res., 48, 99-156, 1990.
28. Chadwick, B., VN. Vasudev, and G.V Hegde, The Dharwar craton, southern India, interpreted as the result of late Archean oblique convergence, Precam. Res., 99, 91-111, 2000.
29. Chardon, D, P. Choukroune, and M. Jayananda, Sinking of the Dharwar Basin [South India]: implications for Archean tectonics, Precam. Res., 91, 15-39, 1998.
30. Chown, E.H., R. Harrap, and A. Moukhsil, The role of granitic intrusions in the evolution of the Abitibi belt, Canada, Precam. Res., 115,291-310, 2002.
31. Clift, P.D., Volcanism and sedimentation in a rifting island arc terrain: an example from Tonga, SW Pacific, in Volcanism Associated with Extension at Consuming Plate Margins, Spec. Publ, 81, edited by Smellie, pp. 29-51, Geol. Soc. London, London, 1995.
32. Coffin, M.E, and O. Eldholm, Large igneous provinces: crustal structure, dimensions, and external consequences, Rev. Geophysics, 32, 1-36, 1994.
33. Condie, K.C., Archean Greenstone Belts, 435 pp, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1981.
34. Condie, K.C., Plate Tectonics and Crustal Evolution, 282 pp, Butterworth-Heinmann, Bath, 1997.
35. Condie, K.C., Episodic continental growth and supercontinents: a mantle avalanche connection? Earth and Planet, Sci. Lett., 163, 97-108, 1998.
36. Condie, K.C., TTGs and adakites: are they both slab melts?, Lithos, 80, 33-44, 2005.
37. Coney, P.J., and Jones, D.L., Accretion tectonics and crustal structure in Alaska, Tectonophysics, 119, 265-283, 1985.
38. Corfu, E, and L.D. Ayres, Unscrambling the stratigraphy of an Archean greenstone belt: a U-Pb geochronological study of the Favourable Lake belt, northwestern Ontario, Canada, Precam. Res., 50, 201-220, 1991.
39. Corfu, E, and D. Stone, Age structure and orogenic significance of the Berens River composite batholiths, western Superior Province, Can. J. Earth Sci., 35, 1089-1109, 1998.
40. Corfu, F., and G.M. Stott, Shebandowan greenstone belt, western Superior Province: U-Pb ages, tectonic implications, and correlations, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull, 110, 1467-1484, 1998.
41. Cousens, B., K. Facey, and H. Falck, Geochemistry of the late Archean Banting Group, Yellowknife greenstone belt, Slave Province, Canada: simultaneous melting of the upper mantle and juvenile mafic crust, Can. J. Earth Sci., 39, 1635-1656, 2002.
42. Crawford, A.J., T.J. Fallon, and D.H. Green, Classification, petrogenesis and tectonic setting of boninites, in Boninites and Related Rocks, edited by A.J. Crawford, pp. 1-49, Unwin Hyman, London, 1989.
43. Daigneault, R., W.U. Mueller, and E.H. Chown, Abitibi greenstone belt plate tectonics: diachronous history of arc development, accretion and collision, in The Precambrian Earth: Tempos and Events, edited by P.G. Eriksson, W. Altermann, DR. Nelson, W.U. Mueller, and O. Catuneanu, pp. 88-103, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2004.
44. Dalziel, I.WD, L.A. Lawver, and J.B. Murphy, Plumes, orogenesis, and supercontinental fragmentation, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 178, 1-11,2000.
45. Davis, B.K., and E. Maidens, Archean orogen parallel extension: evidence from the northern Eastern Goldfields Province, Yilgarn Craton, Precam. Res., 127, 229-248, 2003.
46. Davis, D.W, R.H. Sutcliffe, and N.F. Trowell, Geochronological constraints on the tectonic evolution of a late Archean greenstone belt, Wabigoon subprovince, northwest Ontario, Canada, Precam. Res., 39, 171-191, 1988.
47. Defant, M.J, T.E. Jackson, M.S. Drummond, J.Z. De Boher, H. Bellon, M.D. Feigenson, R.C. Maury, and R.H. Stewart, The geochemistry of young volcanism throughout western Panama and southeastern Costa Rica: an overview, J. Geol. Soc. London, 149, 569-579, 1992.
48. DePaolo, D.J., Crustal growth and mantle evolution; inferences from models of element transport and Nd and Sr isotopes, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 44, 1185-1196, 1980.
49. de Ronde, E.J., and M.J. de Wit, Tectonic history of the Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa: 490 million years of Archean crustal evolution, Tectonics, 13, 983-1005, 1994.
50. Desrochers, J.P., C. Hubert, J.N. Ludden, and P. Pilote, Accretion of Archean oceanic plateau fragments in the Abitibi greenstone belt, Canada, Geology, 21, 451-454.
51. Dewey, J.F., Suture zone complexities: A review, Tectonophysics, 40, 53-67, 1977.
52. Dewey, J.F., Extensional collapse of orogens, Tectonics, 1, 1123-1139, 1988.
53. Dewey, J.F., and J. Bird, Origin and emplacement of the ophiolite suite: Appalachian ophiolites in Newfoundland, J. Geophys. Res., 76, 3179-3206, 1971.
54. Dewey, J.F., M.R. Hempton, W.S.F. Kidd, F. Saroglu, and A.M.C. Şengör, Shortening of continental lithosphere: the Neotectonics of Eastern Anatolia - a young collision zone, Geol. Soc. London Spec. Publication, 19, 3-36, 1986.
55. Dewey, J.F., and S.H. Lamb, Active tectonics of the Andes, Tectonophysics, 205, 79-95, 1992.
56. de Wit, M.J, On Archean granites, greenstones, cratons, and tectonics: does the evidence demand a verdict? Precam. Res., 91, 181-226, 1998.
57. Dilek, Y, and E.M. Moores, A Tibetan model for early Tertiary western United States, J. Geol. Soc. London, 156, 929-941, 1999.
58. Dilek, Y, P. Thy, B. Hacker, and S. Grundvig, Structure and petrology of Tauride ophiolites and mafic dyke intrusions (Turkey): Implications for Neothetyan ocean, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull, 111, 1192-1216, 1999.
59. Dostal, J., and W.U. Mueller, Komatiite flooding of a rifted Archean rhyolite arc complex: geochemical signature and tectonic significance of Stoughton-Roquemaure Group, Abitibi greenstone belt, Canada, J. Geol, 105, 545-563, 1997.
60. Drummond, M.S., M.J. Defant, and P.K. Kepezhinskas, Petrogenesis of slab-derived trondhjemite-tonalite-dacite/adakite magmas, Trans. Royal Soc. Edinburgh Earth Sci., 87, 205-215, 1996.
61. Edwards, S.J., J.A. Pearce, and J. Freeman, New insights concerning the influence of water during formation of podiform chromitite, in Ophiolites and Oceanic Crust: New Insights from Field Studies and Ocean Drilling Program, Spec. Paper, 349, edited by Y. Dilek, E. M. Moores, D. Elthon, D, and A. Nicolas, pp. 139-147, Geol. Soc. Am., Boulder, CO, 2000.
62. Eggins, S.M., Origin and differentiation of picritic arc magmas, Ambae [Aoba], Vanuatu, Contrib. Mineral. Petrol, 114, 79-100, 1993.
63. Feng, R., and R. Kerrich, Geochemistry of fine-grained clastic sediments in the Archean greenstone belt, Canada: implications for provenance and tectonic setting, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 54, 1061-1081, 1990.
64. Feng, R., and R. Kerrich, Single zircon age constraints on the tectonic juxtaposition of the Archean Abitibi greenstone belt and Pontiac Subprovince, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 55, 3437-3441, 1991.
65. Feng, R., and R. Kerrich, Geochemical evolution of granitoids from the Archean Abitibi Southern Volcanic Zone and the Pontiac sub-province, Superior Province, Canada: Implications for tectonic history and source regions, Chem. Geol, 98, 23-70, 1992.
66. Feng, R., R. Kerrich, and R. Mass, Geochemical, oxygen, and neodymium isotope compositions of metasediments from the Abitibi greenstone belt and Pontiac subprovince - Canada evidence for ancient crust and Archean terrane juxtaposition, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 57, 641-658, 1993.
67. Flower, M.F.J., Ophiolites, historical contingency, and the Wilson cycle, in Ophiolite Concept and the Evolution of Geological Thought, Spec. Paper, 373, edited by Y. Dilek, and S. Newcomb, pp. 111-135, Geol. Soc. Am., Boulder, CO, 2003.
68. Forsythe, R.E., and E. Nelson, Geological manifestations of ridge collisions: Evidence from the Golfo de Penas-Taito Basin, southern Chile, Tectonics, 4, 477-495, 1985.
69. Francis, D., J. Ludden, R. Johnstone, and W. Davis, Picrite evidence for more Fe in Archean reservoirs, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 167, 197-213, 1999.
70. Frei, R., A. Polat, and A. Meibom, The Hadean upper mantle conundrum: Evidence for source depletion and enrichment from Sm-Nd, Re-Os, and Pb isotopic compositions in 3.71 Gy boninite-like metabasalts from the Isua Supracrustal Belt, Greenland, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 68, 1645-1660, 2004.
71. Friend, C.R.L., and A.P. Nutman, New pieces to the Archean jigsaw puzzle in the Nuuk region, southern West Greenland: steps in transforming a simple insight into a complex regional tectonothermal model, J. Geol. Soc. London, 162, 147-162,2005.
72. Fyfe, W.S., The evolution of the Earth’s crust: modern plate tectonics to ancient hot spot tectonics?, Chem. Geol, 23, 89-114, 1978.
73. Gill, G.E., Structure and kinematics of a major tectonic contact, Michipicoten greenstone belt, Ontario, Can. J. Earth Sci., 29, 2118-2132, 1992.
74. Goodwin, M.A., Precambrian Geology, The Dynamic Evolution of the Continental Crust, 666 pp, Academic press, London, 1991.
75. Gornostayev, S.S., R.J. Walker, E.J. Hanski, and S.E. Popovchenko, Evidence for the emplacement of ca. 3.0 Ga mantle derived mafic-ultramafic bodies in the Ukrainian Shield, Precam. Res., 132, 349-362, 2004.
76. Grachev, A.F., and VS. Fedorovsky, On the nature of greenstone belts in the Precambrian, Tectonophysics, 73, 195-212, 1981.
77. Green, M.G., P.J. Sylvester, and R. Buick, Growth and recycling of Early Archean continental crust: geochemical evidence from the Coonterunah and Warrawoona Groups, Pilbara Craton, Australia, Tectonophysics, 322, 69-88, 2000.
78. Grove, T.L., and S.W Parman, Thermal evolution of the Earth as recorded by komatiites, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 219, 173-187, 2004.
79. Guivel, C, Y. Lagabrielle, J. Bourgois, H. Martin, N. Arnaud, S. Fourcade, J. Cotton, and R.C. Maury, Very shallow melting of oceanic crust during spreading ridge subduction: origin of near-trench Quaternary volcanism at the Chile Triple Junction, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 108, Article No. 2345, 2003.
80. Gutscher, M.A., R. Maury, J.P. Eissen, and E. Bourdon, Can slab melting be caused by flat subduction?, Geology, 28, 535-538, 2000.
81. Hamilton, W.B., Plate tectonics and island arcs, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull, 100, 1503-1527, 1988.
82. Hamilton, W.B., Archean tectonics and magmatism, Int. Geol. Rev., 40, 1-39, 1998.
83. Hanmer, S., and D.C. Greene, A modern structural regime in the Paleoarchean [~3.64 Ga]: Isua greenstone belt, southern West Greenland, Tectonophysics, 346, 201-222, 2002.
84. Hargraves, R.B., Faster spreading or greater ridge length in the Archean?, Geology, 14, 750-752, 1986.
85. Hartlaub, R.P., L.M. Heaman, K.E. Aston, and T. Chacko, The Archean Murmac Bay Group: evidence for a giant Archean Rift in the Rae Province, Canada, Precam. Res., 131, 345-372, 2004.
86. Hawkesworth, C.J., K. Gallagher, J.M. Hergt, and F. McDermott, Mantle and slab contributions in arc magmas, Annual Rev. Earth Planet. Sci, 21, 175-204, 1993.
87. Hawkins, J.W., Geology of supra-subduction zones-Implications for the origin of ophiolites, in Ophiolite Concept and the Evolution of Geological Thought, Spec. Paper, 373, edited by Y. Dilek, and S. Newcomb, pp. 227-268, Geol. Soc. Am. Boulder, CO, 2003.
88. Henry, P., R.K. Stevenson, and C. Gariepy, Late Archean mantle composition and crustal growth in the Western Superior Province of Canada: Neodymium and lead isotopic evidence from the Wawa, Quetico, and Wabigoon subprovinces, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 62, 143-157, 1998.
89. Henry, P., R.S. Stevenson, Y. Larbi, and C. Gariepy, Nd isotopic evidence for early to late Archean [3.4-2.7 Ga] crustal growth in the Western Superior Province [Ontario, Canada], Tectonophysics, 322, 135-151,2000.
90. Hickman, A.H., Two contrasting granite-greenstone terranes in the Pilbara Craton, Australia: evidence for vertical and horizontal tectonic regimes prior to 2900 Ma, Precam. Res., 131, 153-172, 2004.
91. Hoffman, P.F., On accretion of granite-greenstone terranes, in Nuna Conference on Greenstone Gold and Crustal Evolution, edited F. Robert, P. A. Sheahan, and S. B. Green, pp. 32-45, Geol. Assoc. Canada, Val d’or, 1991.
92. Hofmann, A.W, Chemical differentiation of the Earth: the relationships between mantle, continental crust, and oceanic crust, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 90, 297-314, 1988.
93. Hole, M.J., A.D. Saunders, G. Rogers, and M.A. Sykes, The relationship between alkaline magmatism, lithospheric extension and slab window formation along continental destructive plate margin, in Volcanism Associated with Extension at Consuming Plate Margins, Spec. Publ, 81, edited by J.L. Smellie, pp. 265-285, Geol. Soc. London, London, 1995.
94. Hollings, P., Archean Nb-enriched basalts in the northern Superior Province, Lithos, 64, 1-14, 2002.
95. Hollings, P., and R. Kerrich, An Archean arc basalt-Nb-enriched basalt-adakite association: The 2.7 Ga Confederation assemblage of the Birch-Uchi greenstone belt, Superior Province, Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 139, 208-226, 2000.
96. Hollings, P., and R. Kerrich, Geochemical systematics of tholeiites from the 2.86 Ga Pickle Crow assemblage, northwestern Ontario arc basalts with positive and negative Nb-Hf anomalies, Precam. Res., 134, 1-20, 2004.
97. Hollings, P., D. Wyman, and R. Kerrich, Komatiite-basalt-rhyolite volcanic association in Northern Superior Province greenstone belts: significance of plume-arc interaction in the generation the proto continental Superior Province, Lithos, 46, 137-161, 1999.
98. Ishikawa, T, K. Nagaishi, and S. Umino, Boninitic volcanism in the Oman ophiolite: implications for thermal condition during transition from spreading ridge to arc, Geology, 30, 899-902, 2002.
99. Jacobsen, S.B., Isotopic constraints on crustal growth and recycling, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 90, 315-327, 1988.
100. Jelsma, H.A., and P.H.G.M. Dirks, Neoarchean tectonic evolution of the Zimbabwe Craton, in The Early Earth: Physical, Chemical and Biological Development, Spec. Publ, 199, edited by C.M.R. Fowler, C.J. Ebinger, and C.J. Hawkesworth, pp. 183-211, Geol. Soc. London, London, 2002.
101. Johnson, M.C., and T. Plank, Dehydration and melting experiments constrain the fate of subducted sediments, Geochem. Geophys. Geosystems 1, Paper No. 1999GC000014, 1999.
102. Kamber, B.S., K.D. Collerson, S. Moorbath, and M.J. Whitehouse, Inheritance of early Archean Pb-isotope variability from long-lived Hadean protocrust, Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 145, 25-46, 2003.
103. Kamenetsky, VS., A.V Sobolev, J.-L. Joron, and M.P. Semet, Petrology and geochemistry of Cretaceous ultramafic volcanic rocks from Eastern Kamchatka, J. Petrol., 36, 637-662, 1995.
104. Kearey, P., and F. Vine, Global Tectonics. Blackwell Scientific Publications, 302 pp, Oxford, 1996.
105. Kelemen, P.B., Genesis of high Mg# andesites and the continental crust, Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 120, 1-19, 1995.
106. Kepezhinskas, P., M.J. Defant, and M.S. Drummond, Progressive enrichment of island arc mantle by melt-peridotite interaction inferred from Kamchatka xenoliths, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 60, 1217-1229, 1996.
107. Kerr, A.C., G.F. Marriner, NT. Arndt, J. Tarney, A. Nivia, and A.D. Saunders, The petrogenesis of Gorona komatiites, picrites and basalts: new field, petrographic and geochemical constraints, Lithos, 37, 245-260, 1996.
108. Kerrich, R., and Q. Xie, Compositional recycling structure of an Archean super-plume: Nb-Th-U-LREE systematics of Archean komatiites and basalts revisited, Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 142, 476-484, 2002.
109. Kerrich, R., D.A. Wyman, J. Fan, and W. Bleeker, Boninite series: low Ti-tholeiite associations from the 2.7 Ga Abitibi greenstone belt, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 164, 303-316, 1998.
110. Kimura, G., J.N. Ludden, J-P. Desrochers, and R. Hori, A model of ocean-crust accretion for the Superior Province, Canada, Lithos, 30, 337-355, 1993.
111. Kisters, A.F.M., G. Stevens, A. Dziggel, and R.A. Armstrong, Extensional detachment faulting and core complex formation in the southern Barberton granite-greenstone terrain, South Africa: evidence for 3.2 Ga orogenic collapse, Precam. Res., 127, 355-378, 2003.
112. Kloppenburg, A., S.H. White, and TE. Zegers, Structural evolution of the Warrawoona greenstone belt and adjoining granitoid complexes, Pilbara craton, Australia, implications for Archean tectonic processes, Precam. Res., 112, 107-147, 2001.
113. Knapp, J.H., C.C. Diaconescu, M.A. Bader, VB. Sokolov, S.N. Kashubin, and A.V Rybalka, Seismic reflection fabrics of continental collision and post orogenic extension in the Middle Urals, Central Russia, Tectonophysics, 288, 115-126, 1998.
114. Krapez, B., and B. Eisenlohr, Tectonic settings of Archean [3325-2775 Ma] crustal-supracrustal belts in the West Pilbara Block, Precam. Res., 88, 173-205, 1998.
115. Kusky, T.M., D.C. Bradley, and P. Haeussler, Progressive deformation of the Chugach accretionary complex, Alaska, during a Paleogene ridge-trench encounter, J. Struct. Geol., 19, 139-157, 1997.
116. Kusky, T.M., and WE Kidd, Remnants of an Archean oceanic plateau, Belingwe greenstone belt, Zimbabwe, Geology, 20, 43-46, 1992.
117. Kusky, T.M., and J. Li, Paleoproterozoic tectonic evolution of the North China Craton, J. Asian Earth Sci., 22, 383-397, 2003.
118. Kusky, T.M., and A. Polat, Growth of granite-greenstone terranes at convergent margins, and stabilization of Archean cratons, Tectonophysics, 305, 43-73, 1999.
119. Lacroix, S., and E.W Sawyer, An Archean fold and thrust belt in the northwestern Abitibi greenstone belt: Structural and seismic evidence, Can. J. Earth Sci., 32, 97-112, 1995.
120. Lawver, L.A, R.A. Keller, M.R. Fisk, and J.A. Strelin, Bransfield Strait, Antarctic Peninsula active extension behind a dead arc, in Backarc Basins: Tectonics and Magmatism, edited by B. Taylor, pp. 315-344, Plenum Press, New York, 1995.
121. Lesher, M., and NT. Arndt, REE and Nd isotope geochemistry, petrogenesis and volcanic evolution of contaminated komatiites at Kambalda, Western Australia, Lithos, 34, 127-157, 1995.
122. Li, J., TM. Kusky, and X. Huang, Archean podiform chromitites and mantle tectonites in ophiolitic melange, North China Craton: A record of early oceanic mantle processes, GSA Today, 12, 4-11, 2002.
123. MacLachlan, K., D.W, Davis, and C. Relf, U/Pb geochronological constraints on Neoarchean tectonism: multiple compressional events in the northwestern Hearne Domain, Western Churchill Province, Canada, Can. J. Earth Sci., 42, 85-109, 2005.
124. Manikyamba, C, R. Kerrich, S.M. Naqvi, and M.R. Mohan, Geochemical systematics of tholeiitic basalts from the 2.7 Ga Ramagiri-Hungund composite greenstone belt, Dharwar craton, Precam. Res., 134, 21-39, 2004.
125. Manikyamba, C, S.M. Naqvi, D.VS. Rao, M.R. Mohan, T.C. Khanna, T.G. Rao, and G.L.N. Reddy, Boninites from the Neoarchean Gadwal Greenstone belt, Eastern Dharwar Craton, India: implications for Archean subduction processes, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 230, 65-83, 2005.
126. Mann, P., and A. Taira, Global tectonic significance of the Solomon Islands and Ontong Java convergent zone, Tectonophysics, 389, 137-190, 2004.
127. Marquez, A., R. Oyarzun, M. Doblas, and S.P. Verma, Alkalic (ocean-island basalt type) and calc-alkalic volcanism in the Mexican volcanic belt: A case for plume related magmatism and propagating rift at an active margin?, Geology, 27, 51-54, 1999.
128. Marshak, R.S., and D.E. Karig, Triple junction as a cause for anomalous near-trench igneous activity between trench and volcanic arc, Geology, 5, 233-236, 1977.
129. Martin, H., Adakitic magmas: modern analogues of Archean granitoids, Lithos, 46, 411-429, 1999.
130. Martin, H., and J.-F. Moyen, Secular changes in tonalite-trond-hjemite-granodiorite compositions as markers of the progressive cooling of the Earth, Geology, 30, 319-322, 2002.
131. Martin, H., R.H. Smithies, R. Rapp, J.-F. Moyen, and D. Champion, An overview of adakites, tonalite-granodiorite (TTG), and sanuk-itoid: relationships and some implications for crustal evolution, Lithos, 79, 1-24, 2005.
132. McCarron, J.J., and J.L. Smellie, Tectonic implications of fore-arc magmatism and generation of high-magnesian andesites: Alexander island, Antarctica, J. Geol. Soc. London, 155, 269-280, 1998.
133. McCulloch, M.T., and VC. Bennett, Progressive growth of the Earth’s continental crust and depleted mantle: geochemical constraints, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 58,4717-4738, 1994.
134. Morris, P.A., Slab melting as an explanation of Quaternary volcanism and aseismicity in southwest Japan, Geology, 23,1040-1043,1995.
135. Mueller, W.U, R. Daigneault, J.K. Mortensen, and E.H. Chown, Archean terrane docking: upper crustal collision tectonics, Abitibi greenstone belt, Québec, Canada, Tectonophysics, 265, 127-150, 1996.
136. Myers, J. S., Precambrian history of the west Australian craton and adj a-cent orogens, Annual Rev. Earth. Planet. Sci., 21, 453-485, 1993.
137. Nye, C.J., and M.R. Reid, Geochemistry of primary and least fractionated lavas from Okmaok volcano, central Aleutians: Implications for arc magma genesis, J. Geophys. Res., 91, 10271-10287, 1986.
138. Parman, S.W, T.L. Grove, and J.C. Dann, The production of Barberton komatiites in an Archean subduction zone, Geophys. Res. Left. 28, 2513-2516, 2001.
139. Pearce, J.A., Supra-subduction zone ophiolites: The search for modern analogues, in Ophiolite Concept and the Evolution of Geological Thought, Spec. Paper, 373, edited by Y. Dilek, and S. Newcomb, pp. 269-293, Geol. Soc. Am., Boulder, CO, 2003.
140. Pearce, J.A., S. van der Laan, R.J. Arculus, B.J. Murton, T. Ishii, and D.W Peate, Boninite and Harzburgite from Leg 125 [Bonin-Mariana Fore-arc]: A case study of magma genesis during the initial stage of subduction, Proceed, for the Ocean Drill. Prog., Sci. Res., 125, 623-659, 1992.
141. Pearce, J.A., and D.W. Peate, Tectonic implications of the composition of volcanic arc magmas, Annual Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., 23, 251-285, 1995.
142. Percival, J.A., V. McNicoll, J.L., Brown, and J.B. Whalen, Convergent margin tectonics, central Wabigoon subprovince, Superior Province, Canada, Precam. Res., 132, 213-244, 2004.
143. Percival, J.A., R.A. Stern, and N. Rayner, Archean adakites from the Ashuanipi complex, eastern Superior Province, Canada: geochemistry, geochronology, and tectonic significance, Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 145, 265-280, 2003.
144. Pessagno, E.A., D.M. Hull, and C.A. Hopson, Tectonostratigraphic significance of sedimentary strata occurring within and above the Coast Range ophiolite (California Coast Ranges) and Josephine ophiolite (Klamath Mountains), northwestern California, in Ophiolites and Oceanic Crust: New Insights from Field Studies and Ocean Drilling Program, Spec. Paper 349, edited by Y. Dilek, E.M. Moores, D. Elthon, and A. Nicolas, pp. 383-394, Geol. Soc. Am., Boulder, CO, 2000.
145. Petford, N., and M.R Atherton, Cretaceous volcanism and syn-sub-duction crustal extension, in Volcanism Associated with Extension at Consuming Plate Margins, Spec. Publ., 81, edited by L.J. Smellie, pp. 233-248, Geol. Soc. London, London, 1995.
146. Polat, A., J.E Casey, and R. Kerrich, Geochemical characteristics of accreted material beneath the Pozanti-Karsanti ophiolite, Turkey: Intra-oceanic detachment, assembly and obduction, Tectonophysics, 263, 249-276, 1996.
147. Polat, A., and A.W Hofmann, Alteration and geochemical patterns in the 3.7-3.8 Ga Isua greenstone belt, West Greenland, Precam. Res., 126, 197-218, 2003.
148. Polat, A., A.W. Hofmann, and M. Rosing, Boninite-like volcanic rocks in the 3.7-3.8 Ga Isua greenstone belt, West Greenland: geochemical evidence for intra-oceanic subduction zone processes in the Earth, Chem. Geol., 184, 231-254, 2002.
149. Polat, A., and R. Kerrich, Formation of an Archean tectonic melange in the Schreiber-Hemlo greenstone belt, Superior province, Canada: Implications for Archean subduction-accretion process, Tectonics, 18, 733-755, 1999.
150. Polat, A., R. Kerrich, and D.A. Wyman, The late Archean Schreiber-Hemlo and White River-Dayohessarah greenstone belts, Superior Province: collages of Oceanic plateaus, oceanic arcs, and subduction-accretion complexes, Tectonophysics, 294, 295-326, 1998.
151. Polat, A., and R. Kerrich, Magnesian andesites, Nb-enriched basalt-andesites, and adakites from late Archean 2.7 Ga Wawa greenstone belts, Superior Province, Canada: implications for late Archean subduction zone petrogenetic processes, Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 141, 36-52, 2001.
152. Polat, A., and R. Kerrich, Nd-isotope systematics of ~2.7 Ga adakites, magnesian andesites, and basalts-andesites, Superior Province: Evidence for shallow crustal recycling at Archean subduction zones, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 202, 345-360, 2002.
153. Polat, A., and C. Munker, Hf-Nd isotope evidence for contemporaneous subduction processes in the source of late Archean arc lavas from the Superior Province, Canada, Chem. Geol., 213, 403-429, 2004.
154. Polat, A., C. Munker, R. Rodgers, T. Kusky, J. Li, and B. Fryer, Geochemical evidence for suprasubduction zone origin of the Neoarchean (ca. 2.55-2.50 Ga) peridotites, central orogenic belt, North China craton, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., (in revision), 2005.
155. Poli, S., and Schmidt, M.W., Petrology of subducted slabs, Annu. Rev. Earth Planet Sci., 30, 207-235, 2002.
156. Pouclet, A., J.S. Lee, P. Vidal, B. Cousens, and H. Bellon, Cretaceous to Cenozoic volcanism in South Korea and in the Sea of Japan: magmatic constraints on the opening of the back-ark basin, in Volcanism Associated with Extension at Consuming Plate Margins, Spec. Publ, 81, edited by J.L. Smellie, pp. 169-191, Geol. Soc. London, London, 1995.
157. Poulsen, K.H., G.J. Borradaile, and M.M. Kehlenbeck, An inverted Archean succession at Rainy Lake, Ontario, Can. J. Earth Sci., 17, 1358-1369, 1980.
158. Puchtel, I.S., A.W. Hofmann, K. Mezger, K.P. Jochum, A.A. Shchipansky, and A.V Samsonov, Oceanic plateau model for continental crustal growth in the Archean: a case study from the Kostomuksha greenstone belt, NW Baltic Shield, Earth. Planet. Sci. Lett., 155, 57-74, 1998.
159. Ramsay, W.R.H., A.J. Crawford, J.D. Foden, Field setting, mineralogy, chemistry, and genesis of arc picrites, New Georgia, Solomon Islands, Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 88, 386-402, 1984.
160. Rapp, R.P., N. Shimizu, and M.D. Norman, Growth of early continental crust by partial melting of eclogite, Nature, 425, 605-609, 2003.
161. Rapp, R.P, N. Shimizu, M.D. Norman, and G.S. Applegate, Reaction between-slab derived melts and peridotite in the mantle wedge: experimental constraints at 3.8 GPa, Chem. Geol., 160, 335-356, 1999.
162. Robertson, A.H.F., and M.P. Searle, The northern Oman Tethyan continental margin: stratigraphy, structure, concepts and controversies, in The Geology and Tectonics of the Oman Region, Spec. Publ, 49, edited by A.H.F. Robertson, M.P. Searle, and A.C. Ries, Geol. Soc. London, London, 3-25, 1990.
163. Rogers, G., and A.D. Saunders, Magnesian andesites from Mexico, Chile, and the Aleutian islands: implications for magmatism associated with ridge-trench subduction, in Boninites and Related Rocks, edited by A.J. Crawford, A.J. pp.416-445, Unwin-Hyman, London, 1989.
164. Rollinson, H., Eclogite xenoliths in west African kimberlites as residues from Archean granitoid crust formation, Nature, 389, 173-176, 1997.
165. Rudnick, R.L., Making continental crust, Nature, 378, 571-578, 1995.
166. Sajona, EG., R. Maury, H. Bellon, J. Cotton, and M. Defant, High field strength element enrichment of Pliocene-Pleistocene island arc basalts, Zamboanga Peninsula, Western Mindanao (Philippines), J. Petrol, 37, 693-726, 1996.
167. Samson, S.D., and P.J. Patchett, The Canadian Cordillera as a modern analogue of Proterozoic crustal growth, Austural. J. Earth Sci., 38, 595-611, 1991.
168. Sandeman, H.A., S. Hanmer, W.J. Davis, J.J. Ryan, and T.D. Peterson, Neoarchean volcanic rocks, Central Hearne supracrustal belt, Western Churchill Province, Canada: geochemical and isotopic evidence supporting intra-oceanic, suprasubduc-tion zone extension, Precam. Res., 134, 113-141, 2004.
169. Schuth, S., A. Rohrbach, C. Munker, C. Ballhaus, D. Garbe-Schonberg, and C. Qopoto, Geochemical constraints on the petrogenesis of arc picrites and basalts, New Georgia Group, Solomon Islands, Contrib. Mineral. Petrol, 148, 288-304, 2004.
170. Searle, M.P., and R.K. Stevens, Obduction processes in ancient, modern and future ophiolites, in Ophiolites and Oceanic Lithosphere, Spec. Publ, 13, edited by I.G. Gass, S.J. Lippard, and A.W. Shelton, A.W, pp. 303-319, Geol. Soc. London, London, 1984.
171. Şengör, A.M.C., Plate Tectonics and orogenic research after 25 years: A Tethyan perspective, Earth Sci. Rev., 27, 1-201, 1990.
172. Sengor, A.M.C., and K. Burke, Relative timing of rifting and volcanism on Earth and its tectonic implications, Geophys. Res. Lett., 5,419-421, 1978.
173. Şengör, A.M.C., Goriir, N., and F. Saroglu, Strike-slip faulting and related basin formation in zones of tectonic escape: turkey as a case study, Soc. Eco. Paleontolog. Mineral, Spec. Publ. 37, 227-264, 1985.
174. Şengör, A.M.C., and B.A. Natal’in, Turkic-type orogeny and its role in the making of the continental crust, Annual Rev. Earth. Planet. Sci., 24, 263-337, 1996.
175. Şengör, A.M.C., and B.A. Natal’in, Phanerozoic analogues of Archean basement fragments: Altaid ophiolites and ophirags, in Precambrian Ophiolites and Related Rocks, edited by TM. Kusky, pp. 671-721, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2004.
176. Shchipansky, A.A., A.V Samsonov, E.V Bibikova, I.I. Babarina, A.N. Konilov, K.A. Krylov, A.I. Slabunov, and M.M. Bogina, 2.8 Ga boninite-hosting partial subduction zone ophiolite sequences from the North Karelian greenstone belt, NE Baltic Shield, Russia in Precambrian Ophiolites and Related Rocks, edited by T. M. Kusky, pp. 425-486, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2004.
177. Shirey, S.B., and G.N. Hanson, Mantle heterogeneity and crustal recycling in Archean granite-greenstone belts: Evidence from Nd-isotopes and trace elements in the Rainy Lake area, Superior Province, Ontario, Canada, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 50, 2631-2651, 1986.
178. Sisson, VB., T.L. Pavlis, S.M. Roeske, and D.J. Thorkelson, Introduction: An overview of ridge-trench interactions in modern and ancient settings, in Geology of a Transpressional Orogen Development During Ridge-Trench Interaction Along the North Pacific Margin, Spec. Paper 371, edited by VB. Sisson, S.M. Roeske, and T.L. Pavlis, pp. 1-18, Geol. Soc. Am., Boulder, CO, 2003.
179. Skulski, T, and J.P. Percival, Allochthonous 2.78 Ga oceanic plateau silvers in a 2.72 Ga continental arc sequence: Vizien greenstone belt, northeastern Superior Province, Canada, Lithos, 37, 163-179, 1996.
180. Sleep, N.H., Archean plate tectonics: what can be learned from continental geology, Can. J. Earth Sci., 29, 2066-2071, 1992.
181. Smith, J.B., M.E. Barley, D.I. Groves, B. Krapez, N.J. McNaughton, M.J. Bickle, and H.J. Chapman, The Sholl Shear Zone, West Pilbara: evidence for a domain boundary structure from integrated tectonostratigraphic analyses, SHRIMP U-Pb dating and isotopic and geochemical data of granitoids, Precam. Res., 88, 143-171, 1998.
182. Smithies, R.H., The Archean tonalite-trondhjemite-granodiorite [TTG] series is not an analogue of Cenozoic adakites, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 182, 115-125, 2000.
183. Smithies, R.H., D.C. Champion, M.J. van Kranendonk, H.M. Howard, and A.H. Hickman, Modern-style subduction processes in the Mesoarchean: geochemical evidence from the 3.12 Ga Whundo intra-oceanic arc, Earth Planet Sci. Lett. 231, 221-237, 2005.
184. Spadea, P., and J.H. Scarrow, Early Devonian boninites from the Magnitogorsk arc, southern Urals [Russia]: implications for early development of a collisional orogen, in Ophiolites and Oceanic Crust: New Insights from Field Studies and Ocean Drilling Program, Spec. Paper, 349, edited by Y. Dilek, E.M. Moores, D. Elthon, D, and A. Nicolas, pp. 461-472, Geol. Soc. Am., Boulder, CO, 2000.
185. Srivastava, R.K., R.K. Singh, and S.P. Verma, Neoarchean volcanic rocks from the southern Bastar greenstone belt, central India: Petrological and tectonic significance, Precam. Res., 131, 305-322, 2004.
186. Stern, C.R., and R. Kilian, Role of the subducted slab, mantle wedge and continental crust in the generation of adakites from the Andean Austral Volcanic Zone, Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 123, 263-281, 1996.
187. Stern, R.J., J. Morris, S.H. Bloomer, and J.W. Hawkins, The source of the subduction component in convergent margin magmas: trace element and radiogenic evidence from Eocene boninites, Mariana forearc, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 55, 1467-1481, 1991.
188. Stevenson, R.K., and P.J. Patchett, Implications for the evolution of continental crust from Hf isotope systematics of Archean detrital zircons, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 54, 1683-1697, 1990.
189. Stone, W.E., J.H. Crocket, A.R Dickin, and M.E Fleet, Origin of Archean ferropicrites: geochemical constraints from the Boston Creek flow, Abitibi greenstone belt, Ontario, Canada, Chem. Geol, 121, 51-71, 1995.
190. Storey, B.C., The role of mantle plumes in continental breakup: case histories from Gondwanaland, Nature, 311, 301-308, 1995.
191. Stott, G.M., The Superior Province, Canada, in Tectonic Evolution of Greenstone Belts, Oxford Monog. on Geol. and Geophys 35, edited by M. de Wit, M. and L.D. Ashwal, pp. 480-507, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1997.
192. Sun, S.S., and W.F. McDonough, Chemical and isotopic systematics of oceanic basalts: implications for mantle composition and processes, in Magmatism in the Ocean Basins, Spec. Publ. 42, edited by A.D. Saunders and M.J. Norry, pp. 313-345, Geol. Soc. London, London, 1989.
193. Sun, S.S., and R.W. Nesbitt, Geochemical regularities and genetic significance of ophiolitic basalts, Geology, 6, 689-693, 1978.
194. Svetov, S.A., H. Huhma, A.I. Svetova, and T.N. Nazarova, The oldest Aadakites of the Fennoscandian Shield, Doklady Earth Sci., 397A, 878-882, 2004.
195. Swager, C, Tectonostratigraphy of late Archean greenstone terranes in the southern Eastern Goldfields, Western Australia, Precam. Res., 83, 11-42, 1997.
196. Swain, G., A. Woodhouse, M. Hand, K. Barovich, M. Schwarz, and CM. Fanning, Provenance and tectonic development of the late Archean Gawler Craton, Australia; U-Pb zircon, geochemical and Sm-Nd isotopic implications, Precam. Res., 141, 106-136, 2005.
197. Sylvester, A.G., Strike-slip faults, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull, 100, 1666-1703, 1988.
198. Taira, A., K.T Pickering, B.F Windley, and W. Soh, Accretion of Japanese island arcs and implications for the origin of Archean greenstone belts, Tectonics, 11, 1224-1244, 1992.
199. Tarney, J, I.W Dalziel, and M.J. de Wit, Marginal Basin ‘Rocas Verdes’ Complex from S. Chile: A Model for Archaean Greenstone Belt Formation, in The Early History of the Earth, edited by B.F Windley, pp. 131-146, John Wiley, New York, 1976.
200. Tatsumi, Y, and S. Maruyama, Boninites and high-Mg andesites: tectonic and petrogenesis, in Boninites and Related Rocks, edited by A.J. Crawford, pp. 50-71 Unwin Hyman, London, 1989.
201. Taylor, S.R., and S.M. McLennan, The geochemical evolution of the continental crust, Rev. Geophys., 33, 241-265, 1995.
202. Thirlwall, M.F., A.M. Graham, R.J. Arculus, R.S. Harmon, and C.G. Macpherson, Resolution of the effects of crustal assimilation, sediment subduction, and fluid transport in arc magmas: Pb-Sr-Nd-0 isotope geochemistry of Grenada, Lesser Anilles, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 60, 4785-4810, 1996.
203. Thurston, P.C., Autochthonous development of Superior Province greenstone belts?, Precam. Res., 115,11-36, 2002.
204. Thurston, P.C., and K.M. Chivers, Secular variations in greenstone sequence development emphasizing Superior Province, Canada, Precam. Res., 46, 21-58, 1990.
205. Thurston, PC, and VN. Kozhevnikov, An Archean quartz arenite-andesite association in the eastern Baltic Shield, Russia: Implications forassemblage type and shield history, Precam. Res., 101,313-340, 2000.
206. Tomlinson, K.Y, D.W. Davis, J.A. Percival, D.J. Hughes, and RC. Thurston, Mafic to felsic magmatism and crustal recycling in the Obonga Lake greenstone belt, Western Superior Province: evidence from geochemistry, Nd isotopes and U-Pb, Precam. Res., 114, 295-325, 2002.
207. Tomlinson, K.Y, D.J. Hughes, RC. Thurston, and R.R Hall, Plume magmatism and crustal growth at 2.9 to 3.0 Ga in the Steep Rock and Lumby Lake area, Western Superior Province, Lithos, 46, 103-136, 1999.
208. Ujike, O., and A.M. Goodwin, Origin of Archean adakites and NEBA from the Upper Keewatin assemblage, the Lake of the Woods greenstone belt, Western Wabigoon Subprovince, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 67, A503, 2003.
209. Umhoefer, P. J, and P. Schiarriza, Latest Cretaceous to early Tertiary dextral strike-slip faulting on the southeastern Yalakom fault system, southeastern Coast Belt, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull, 108, 768-785, 1996.
210. Vanderhaeghe, O., and C. Teyssier, Crustal-scale rheological transitions during late orogenic collapse, Tectonophysics, 335, 211-228, 2001.
211. van Kranendonk, M.J., Archean tectonics, A review, Precam. Res., 131, 143-151, 2004.
212. van Staal, C.R., Brunswick subduction complex in the Canadian Appalachians: Record of the Late Ordovician to Late Silurian collision between Laurentia and Gander margin of Avalon, Tectonics, 13, 964-962, 1994.
213. Vergara, M., B. Levi, JO. Nystrom, and A. Cancino, Jurassic and early Cretaceous island arc volcanism in the coast range of central Chile, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull, 107, 1427-1440, 1995.
214. von Huene, R., D. V Scholl, Observations at convergent margins concerning sediment subduction, subduction-erosion, and the growth of the continental crust, Rev. Geophys., 29, 279-316, 1991.
215. Wakabayashi, J, Nappes, tectonics of oblique plate convergence, and metamorphic evolution related to 140 million years of continuous subduction, Franciscan Complex, California, J. Geol, 100, 19-40, 1992.
216. Wang, Z., S.A. Wilde, K. Wang, and L. Yu, A MORB-arc basalt-adakite association in the 2.5 Ga Wutai greenstone belt: Late Archean magmatism and crust growth in the North China Craton, Precam. Res., 131, 323-343, 2004.
217. Whalen, J.B., J.A. Percival, VJ. McNicoll, and F.J. Longstaff, A mainly crustal origin for tonalitic granitoid rocks, Superior Province, Canada: implications for late Archean Tectonomagmatic Processes, J. Petrol, 43, 1551-1570, 2002.
218. Williams, H.R., G.M. Stott, and PC. Thurston, Tectonic evolution of Ontario: Summary and synthesis, Part 1: Revolution in the Superior Province, in Geology of Ontario, Spec. Vol. 4/2, edited by PC. Thurston, H.R. Williams, H.R. Sutcliffe, G.M. Stott, Geology of Ontario, pp. 1256-1294, Ont. Geol. Surv., Sudbury, 1991.
219. Wyman, D.A., A 2.7 Ga depleted tholeiite suite: evidence of plume-arc interaction in the Abitibi greenstone belt, Canada, Precam. Res., 97, 27-42,1999.
220. Wyman, D.A., Upper mantle processes beneath the 2.7 Ga Abitibi belt, Canada: trace element perspective, Precam. Res., 127, 143-165, 2003.
221. Wyman, D.A., J.A. Ayer, and JR. Devaney, Niobium-enriched basalts from the Wabigoon subprovince, Canada: evidence for adakitic metasomatism above an Archean subduction zone, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 179, 21-30, 2000.
222. Wyman, D.A., W. Bleeker, and R. Kerrich, A 2.7 Ga komatiite, low-Ti tholeiite, arc transition, and inferred proto-arc geodynamic setting of the Kidd Creek deposit: Evidence from precise ICP MS trace element data, Eco. Geol. Monog., 10, 511-528, 1999.
223. Wyman, D.A., R. Kerrich, and A. Polat, Assembly of Archean cra-tonic mantle lithosphere and crust: plume-arc interaction in the Abitibi-Wawa subduction-accretion complex, Precam. Res., 115, 37-62, 2002.
224. Yamamoto, M., Picritic primary magma and its source mantle for Oshima-Oshima and back-arc side volcanoes, Northwest Japan, Contrib. Mineral. Petrol, 99, 352-359, 1988.
225. Yiğitbaş, E., R. Kerrich, Y. Yücel, A. Elmas, Q.L. Xie, Characteristics and geochemistry of Precambrian ophiolites and related volcanics from the Istanbul-Zonguldak Unit, Northwestern Anatolia, Turkey: following the missing chain of the Precambrian South European suture zone to the east, Precam. Res., 132, 179-206, 2004.
226. Zegers, T.E., Granite formation and emplacement as indicators of Archean tectonic processes, In: The Precambrian Earth: Tempos and Events, edited by RG. Eriksson, W. Altermann, D.R. Nelson, W.U. Mueller, and O. Catuneanu, pp. 103-118, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2004.
227. Zegers, T.E., M. Keijzer, C.W Passchier, and S.H. White, The Mulgandinnah Shear zone: an Archean crustal scale shear zone in the eastern Pilbara, Western Australia, Precam. Res., 88, 233-247, 1998.