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Early Precambrian Earth history : Plate and plume tectonics and extraterrestrial controls. / Dobretsov, N. L.; Turkina, O. M.

In: Russian Geology and Geophysics, Vol. 56, No. 7, 01.07.2015, p. 978-995.

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Dobretsov NL, Turkina OM. Early Precambrian Earth history: Plate and plume tectonics and extraterrestrial controls. Russian Geology and Geophysics. 2015 Jul 1;56(7):978-995. doi: 10.1016/j.rgg.2015.06.002

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Dobretsov, N. L. ; Turkina, O. M. / Early Precambrian Earth history : Plate and plume tectonics and extraterrestrial controls. In: Russian Geology and Geophysics. 2015 ; Vol. 56, No. 7. pp. 978-995.

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abstract = "The Hadean and Archean geologic history of the Earth is discussed in the context of available knowledge from different sources: space physics and comparative planetology; isotope geochronology; geology and petrology of Archean greenstone belts (GB) and tonalite-trondhjemite-granodiorite (TTG) complexes; and geodynamic modeling review to analyse plate-tectonic, plume activity, and impact processes. Correlation between the age peaks of terrestrial Hadean-Early Archean zircons and late heavy bombardment events on the Moon, as well as the Hf isotope composition of zircons indicating their mostly mafic sources, hint to an important role of impact processes in the Earth's history between 4.4 and 3.8 Ga. The earliest continental crust (TTG complexes) formed at 4.2 Ga (Acasta gneisses), while its large-scale recycling left imprint in Hf isotope signatures after 3.75 Ga. The associations and geochemistry of rocks suggest that Archean greenstone belts formed in settings of rifting, ocean floor spreading, subduction, and plume magmatism generally similar to the present respective processes. The Archean history differed in the greater extent of rocks derived from mantle plumes (komatiites and basalts), boninites, and adakites as well as in shorter subduction cycles recorded in alternation of typical calc-alkaline andesite-dacite-rhyolite and adakite series that were generated in a hotter mantle with more turbulent convection and unsteady subduction. The Archean is interpreted as a transient period of small plate tectonics.",
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