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dc.contributor.authorRoberts, N.
dc.contributor.authorSpencer, Christopher
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T12:48:45Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T12:48:45Z
dc.date.created2015-05-22T08:32:16Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.citationRoberts, N. and Spencer, C. 2014. The zircon archive of continent formation through time. Special Publications (Geological Society). 389: pp. 197-225.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/25496
dc.identifier.doi10.1144/SP389.14
dc.description.abstract

The strong resilience of the mineral zircon and its ability to host a wealth of isotopic information make it the best deep-time archive of Earth’s continental crust. Zircon is found in most felsic igneous rocks, can be precisely dated and can fingerprint magmatic sources; thus, it has been widely used to document the formation and evolution of continental crust, from pluton- to global-scale. Here, we present a review of major contributions that zircon studies have made in terms of understanding key questions involving the formation of the continents. These include the conditions of continent formation on early Earth, the onset of plate tectonics and subduction, the rate of crustal growth through time and the governing balance of continental addition v. continental loss, and the role of preservation bias in the zircon record.

dc.publisherGeological Society Publishing House
dc.titleThe zircon archive of continent formation through time
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume389
dcterms.source.startPage1
dcterms.source.endPage30
dcterms.source.issn0305-8719
dcterms.source.titleGeological Society Special Publication
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This open access article is distributed under the Creative Commons license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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