I-type and S-type granites in the Earth’s earliest continental crust

A form of mobile lithosphere with mantle recycling was already operating on the Early Earth around 4.4 to 3.3 billion years ago, according to the application of machine learning to differentiate the source lithologies of zircons from Jack Hills Australia

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Shihua Zhong, Sanzhong Li, Yang Liu, Peter A. Cawood, Reimar Seltmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-03-01
Series:Communications Earth & Environment
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00731-7