Mesoarchean subduction processes:2.87 Ga eclogites from the Kola Peninsula, Russia

• Published in: Geology
• Main Authors: Mints, M. V., Belousova, E. A., Konilov, A. N., Natapov, L. M., Shchipansky, A. A., Griffin, W. L., O'Reilly, S. Y., Dokukina, K. A., Kaulina, T. V.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Kola Peninsula; Salma; Uzkaya; Uzkaya Salma; Fennoscandian; kola peninsula
• Online Access: https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/publications/f840a24d-bc52-4c2a-8af3-9123c02d8d5b; https://doi.org/10.1130/G31219.1; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77955939161&partnerID=8YFLogxK

The nature of tectonic processes on the early Earth is still controversial. The scarcity of high-pressure metamorphic rocks such as eclogite (the high-pressure equivalent of basalt) in Archean cratons has been used to argue that plate tectonics did not operate until Earth had cooled to a critical po...