Widespread reworking of Hadean-to-Eoarchean continents during Earth’s thermal peak
| Autor: | Milo Barham, Agnete Steenfelt, Michael I. H. Hartnady, Christopher L. Kirkland, Hugo K.H. Olierook, Julie A. Hollis |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Multidisciplinary
Felsic 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Hadean Science Precambrian geology Tectonics Geochemistry General Physics and Astronomy Crust General Chemistry 010502 geochemistry & geophysics 01 natural sciences General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology Mantle (geology) Article Lithosphere Magmatism Period (geology) Geology 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Zircon |
| Zdroj: | Nature Communications, Vol 12, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2021) Nature Communications |
| ISSN: | 2041-1723 |
| Popis: | The nature and evolution of Earth’s crust during the Hadean and Eoarchean is largely unknown owing to a paucity of material preserved from this period. However, clues may be found in the chemical composition of refractory minerals that initially grew in primordial material but were subsequently incorporated into younger rocks and sediment during lithospheric reworking. Here we report Hf isotopic data in 3.9 to 1.8 billion year old detrital zircon from modern stream sediment samples from West Greenland, which document successive reworking of felsic Hadean-to-Eoarchean crust during subsequent periods of magmatism. Combined with global zircon Hf data, we show a planetary shift towards, on average, more juvenile Hf values 3.2 to 3.0 billion years ago. This crustal rejuvenation was coincident with peak mantle potential temperatures that imply greater degrees of mantle melting and injection of hot mafic-ultramafic magmas into older Hadean-to-Eoarchean felsic crust at this time. Given the repeated recognition of felsic Hadean-to-Eoarchean diluted signatures, ancient crust appears to have acted as buoyant life-rafts with enhanced preservation-potential that facilitated later rapid crustal growth during the Meso-and-Neoarchean. The nature and evolution of Earth’s crust during the Hadean and Eoarchean is largely unknown due to the lack of preserved material from this period. Here, the authors document a period of crustal rejuvenation between 3.2 and 3.0 Ga, coincident with peak mantle potential temperatures that imply greater degrees of mantle melting and injection of hot mafic-ultramafic magmas into older Hadean-to-Eoarchean felsic crust at this time. |
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