I-type and S-type granites in the Earth’s earliest continental crust

Shihua Zhong; Sanzhong Li; Yang Liu; Peter A. Cawood; Reimar Seltmann

doi:10.1038/s43247-023-00731-7

Communications Earth & Environment (Mar 2023)

I-type and S-type granites in the Earth’s earliest continental crust

Shihua Zhong,
Sanzhong Li,
Yang Liu,
Peter A. Cawood,
Reimar Seltmann

Affiliations

Shihua Zhong: Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, Key Lab of Submarine Geosciences and Prospecting Techniques, MOE and College of Marine. Geosciences, Ocean University of China
Sanzhong Li: Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, Key Lab of Submarine Geosciences and Prospecting Techniques, MOE and College of Marine. Geosciences, Ocean University of China
Yang Liu: Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, Key Lab of Submarine Geosciences and Prospecting Techniques, MOE and College of Marine. Geosciences, Ocean University of China
Peter A. Cawood: School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University
Reimar Seltmann: Center for Russian and Central EurAsian Mineral Studies, Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00731-7
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 4, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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A form of mobile lithosphere with mantle recycling was already operating on the Early Earth around 4.4 to 3.3 billion years ago, according to the application of machine learning to differentiate the source lithologies of zircons from Jack Hills Australia

Published in Communications Earth & Environment

ISSN: 2662-4435 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science: Geology; Geography. Anthropology. Recreation: Environmental sciences
Website: https://www.nature.com/commsenv/

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