Archean magmatism and deformation were not products of plate tectonics

1998/08/01 by Warren Hamilton, Warren B. Hamilton · 3 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Archean #Felsic #Geochemistry #Geological and Geochemical Analysis #Geology #Greenstone belt #High-pressure geophysics and materials #Mafic #Ophiolite #Paleontology #Petrology #Proterozoic #Tectonics #Volcanic rock #Volcano #earthquake and tectonic studies

paper · doi:10.1016/s0301-9268(98)00042-4

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Citations

• Constraining the potential temperature of the Archaean mantle: A review of the evidence from komatiites
• United Plates of America, The Birth of a Craton: Early Proterozoic Assembly and Growth of Laurentia
• The Itsaq Gneiss Complex of southern West Greenland; the world's most extensive record of early crustal evolution (3900-3600 Ma)

Cited by

• Palaeomagnetism of flood basalts in the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia: Late Archaean continental drift and the oldest known reversal of the geomagnetic field
• Plate tectonics on the early Earth: Limitations imposed by strength and buoyancy of subducted lithosphere
• Craton [wikipedia]