Geology Reference
In-Depth Information
154. Davies, G.F., On the emergence of plate tectonics.
Geology
, 1992.
20
: p. 963-966.
155. Davies, G.F., Gravitational depletion of the early Earth's upper mantle and the
viability of early plate tectonics.
Earth Planet. Sci. Lett
., 2006.
243
: p. 376-382.
156. Davies, G.F., Episodic layering of the early mantle by the 'basalt barrier'
mechanism.
Earth Planet. Sci. Lett
., 2008.
275
: p. 382-392.
157. Gurnis, M., Large-scale mantle convection and the aggregation and dispersal of
supercontinents.
Nature
, 1988.
332
: p. 695-699.
158. Tollo, R.P.,
et al.
, Editors,
Proterozoic Tectonic Evolution of the Grenville Orogen in
North America
. Memoir Vol. 197. 2004, Boulder, CO: Geological Society of
America.
159. O'Neill, C.,
et al.
, Episodic Precambrian subduction.
Earth Planet. Sci. Lett
., 2007.
262
: p. 552-562.
160. Condie, K.C.,
Earth as an Evolving Planetary System
. 2004, Amsterdam: Elsevier.
350p.
161. van Kranendonk, M.J., R.H. Smithies, and V.C. Bennett, Editors.
Earth's Oldest
Rocks
. Developments in Precambrian Geology, Vol. 15. 2007, Amsterdam: Elsevier.
162. McCulloch, M.T. and V.C. Bennett, Progressive growth of the Earth's continental
crust and depleted mantle: geochemical constraints.
Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta
,
1994.
58
: p. 4717-4738.
163. Condie, K.C. and V. Pease, Editors.
When Did Plate Tectonics Begin on Planet
Earth
? Special Paper, Vol. 440. 2008, Boulder, CO: Geological Society of America.
164. Mojzsis, S.J., T.M. Harrison, and R.T. Pidgeon, Oxygen-isotope evidence from
ancient zircons for liquid water at the Earth's surface 4300 Myr ago.
Nature
, 2001.
409
: p. 178-181.
165. Wilde, S.A.,
et al.
, Evidence from detrital zircons for the existence of continental
crust and oceans on the Earth 4.4 Gyr ago.
Nature
, 2001.
409
: p. 175-178.
166. Watson, E.B. and T.M. Harrison, Zircon thermometer reveals minimum melting
conditions on earliest Earth.
Science
, 2005.
308
: p. 841-844.
167. Campbell, I.H., R. Griffiths, and R.I. Hill, Melting in an Archaean mantle plume:
heads it's basalts, tails it's komatiites.
Nature
, 1989.
339
: p. 697-699.
168. 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
., 1992.
92
:
p. 497-523.
169. Campbell, I.H., The mantle's chemical structure: insights from the melting
products of mantle plumes, in
The Earth's Mantle: Composition, Structure and
Evolution
, I.N.S. Jackson, Editor. 1998, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
p. 259-310.
170. Ernst, R.E. and K.L. Buchan, The use of mafic dike swarms in identifying and
locating mantle plumes, in
Mantle Plumes: Their Identification Through Time
,R.E.
Ernst and K.L. Buchan, Editors. 2001, Geol. Soc. Am. Special Paper 352. Boulder,
CO: Geological Society of America. p. 247-265.
171. Bedard, J., A catalytic delamination-driven model for coupled genesis of Archaean
crust and sub-continental lithospheric mantle.
Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta
, 2006.
70
: p. 1188-1214.
172. Smithies, R.H., M.J. van Kranendonk, and D.C. Champion, It started with a plume -
early Archaean basaltic proto-continental crust.
Earth Planet. Sci. Lett
., 2005.
238
:
p. 284-297.
173. Bogdanova, S.,
et al.
, From Rodinia to Nuna and beyond: Precambrian
supercontinent reconstructions delving deeper in time, in
33rd International
Geological Congress
, 2008, Oslo. HPP-04. http://33igc.org/coco/entrypage.aspx.