Rates of generation and growth of the continental crust

Models for when and how the continental crust was formed are constrained by estimates in the rates of crustal growth. The record of events preserved in the continental crust is heterogeneous in time with distinctive peaks and troughs of ages for igneous crystallisation, metamorphism, continental mar...

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Main Authors: Chris Hawkesworth, Peter A. Cawood, Bruno Dhuime
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-01-01
Series:Geoscience Frontiers
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987118300501