Crust Formation and Plate Motion in the Early Archean

• Published in: Science
• Main Authors: Kröner, A., Layer, P. W.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1992
• Subjects: Early Islands; Iceland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.256.5062.1405; https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.256.5062.1405

Mounting evidence for voluminous continental crust formation in the early Archean involving intracrustal melting and selective preservation of granitoid rocks suggests that initial crust formation and growth were predominantly by magmatic underplating in plumegenerated Iceland-type settings. Collisi...