Continent Formation Through Time
Product code: SP389
Print publication date: 17/02/2015
Geological Society of London, GSL Special Publications, Earth Structure Processes and Tectonics, Tectonics
Type: Book (Hardback)
Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 9781862393752
Author/Edited by: Edited by N.M.W. Roberts, M. van Kranendonk, S. Parman, S. Shirey and P.D. Clift
Weight: 0.99kg
Number of pages: 362
Online publication date: 26/01/2015
Lyell Collection URL: https://www.lyellcollection.org/toc/sp/389/1
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Special Publication 389.
The continental crust is our archive of Earth history, and the store of many natural resources; however, many key questions about its formation and evolution remain debated and unresolved:
- What processed are involved in the formation, differentiation and evolution of continental crust, and how have these changed throughout Earth history?
- How are plate tectonics, the supercontinent cycle and mantle cooling linked with crustal evolution?
- What are the rates of generation and destruction of the continental crust through time?
- How representative is the preserved geological record?
A range of approaches are used to address these questions, including field-based studies, petrology and geochemistry, geophysical methods, palaeomagnetism, whole-rock and accessory-phase isotope chemistry and geochronology. Case studies range from the Eoarchaean to Phanerozoic, and cover many different cratons and orogenic belts from across the continents.
ROBERTS, N. M. W., VAN KRANENDONK, M. J., PARMAN, S. & CLIFT, P. D. Continent formation through time
Geophysics and Numerical Modelling
O’NEILL, C., LENARDIC, A. & CONDIE, K. C. Earth’s punctuated tectonic evolution: cause and effect
BASTOW, I. D., EATON, D. W., KENDALL, J.-M., HELFFRICH, G., SNYDER, D. B., THOMPSON, D. A., WOOKEY, J., DARBYSHIRE, F. A. & PAWLAK, A. E. The Hudson Bay Lithospheric Experiment (HuBLE): insights into Precambrian plate tectonics and the development of mantle keels
PIPER, J. D. A. Supercontinent integrity between 0.8 and 0.6 Ga: the nemesis of Rodinia?
Geology and Geochemistry
VAN KRANENDONK, M. J., SMITHIES, R. H., GRIFFIN, W. L., HUSTON, D. L., HICKMAN, A. H., CHAMPION, D. C., ANHAEUSSER, C. R. & PIRAJNO, F. Making it thick: a volcanic plateau origin of Palaeoarchean continental lithosphere of the Pilbara and Kaapvaal cratons
NUTMAN, A. P., BENNETT, V. C. & FRIEND, C. R. L. The emergence of the Eoarchaean proto-arc: evolution of a c. 3700 Ma convergent plate boundary at Isua, southern West Greenland
DEY, S., NANDY, J., CHOUDHARY, A. K., LIU, Y.& ZONG, K. Neoarchaean crustal growth by combined arc–plume action: evidence from the Kadiri Greenstone Belt, eastern Dharwar craton, India
KLEINHANNS, I. C., FULLGRAF, T., WILSKY, F., NOLTE, N., FLIEGEL, D., KLEMD, R. & HANSEN, B. T. U–Pb zircon ages and (isotope) geochemical signatures of the Kamanjab Inlier (NW Namibia): constraints on Palaeoproterozoic crustal evolution along the southern Congo craton
Zircon
ROBERTS, N.M.W. & SPENCER, C. J. The zircon archive of continent formation through time
CLAESSON, S., BIBIKOVA, E., SHUMLYANSKYY, L., DHUIME, B. & HAWKESWORTH, C. J. The oldest crust in the Ukrainian Shield – Eoarchaean U–Pb ages and Hf–Nd constraints from enderbites and metasediments
LANCASTER, P. J., STOREY, C. D. & HAWKESWORTH, C. J. The Eoarchaean foundation of the North Atlantic Craton
PETERSSON, A., SCHERSTE´N, A., ANDERSSON, J. & MöLLER, C. Zircon U–Pb and Hf – isotopes from the eastern part of the Sveconorwegian Orogen, SW Sweden: implications for the growth of Fennoscandia
BOEKHOUT, F., ROBERTS, N. M. W., GERDES, A. & SCHALTEGGER, U. A Hf-isotope perspective on continent formation in the south Peruvian Andes
HIESS, J., YI, K., WOODHEAD, J., IRELAND, T. & RATTENBURY, M. Gondwana margin evolution from zircon REE, O and Hf signatures of Western Province gneisses, Zealandia
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