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dc.contributor.authorTurner, S.
dc.contributor.authorWilde, Simon
dc.contributor.authorWörner, G.
dc.contributor.authorSchaefer, B.
dc.contributor.authorLai, Y.J.
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-25T14:51:33Z
dc.date.available2020-11-25T14:51:33Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.citationTurner, S. and Wilde, S. and Wörner, G. and Schaefer, B. and Lai, Y.J. 2020. An andesitic source for Jack Hills zircon supports onset of plate tectonics in the Hadean. Nature Communications. 11 (1): pp. 1241-.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/81785
dc.identifier.doi10.1038/s41467-020-14857-1
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The composition and origin of Earth’s early crust remains hotly debated. Here we use partition coefficients to invert the trace element composition of 4.3–3.3 Gyr Jack Hills zircons to calculate the composition of the melts from which they crystallised. Using this approach, the average SiO2 content of these melts was 59 ± 6 wt. % with Th/Nb, Dy/Yb and Sr/Y ratios of 2.7 ± 1.9, 0.9 ± 0.2 and 1.6 ± 0.7, respectively. Such features strongly indicate that the protolith for the Jack Hills zircons was not an intra-plate mafic rock, nor a TTG (tondjhemite-tonalite-granodiorite) or a Sudbury-like impact melt. Instead, the inferred equilibrium melts are much more similar to andesites formed in modern subduction settings. We find no evidence for any secular variation between 4.3 and 3.3 Gyr implying little change in the composition or tectonic affinity of the Earth’s early crust from the Hadean to Mesoarchaean.

dc.languageeng
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.titleAn andesitic source for Jack Hills zircon supports onset of plate tectonics in the Hadean
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume11
dcterms.source.number1
dcterms.source.startPage1241
dcterms.source.issn2041-1723
dcterms.source.titleNature Communications
dc.date.updated2020-11-25T14:51:30Z
curtin.departmentSchool of Earth and Planetary Sciences (EPS)
curtin.accessStatusOpen access
curtin.facultyFaculty of Science and Engineering
curtin.contributor.orcidWilde, Simon [0000-0002-4546-8278]
curtin.contributor.researcheridWilde, Simon [C-5174-2009]
dcterms.source.eissn2041-1723
curtin.contributor.scopusauthoridWilde, Simon [35254758600]


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