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Earth's oldest mantle fabrics indicate Eoarchaean subduction

The extension of subduction processes into the Eoarchaean era (4.0–3.6 Ga) is controversial. The oldest reported terrestrial olivine, from two dunite lenses within the ∼3,720 Ma Isua supracrustal belt in Greenland, record a shape-preferred orientation of olivine crystals defining a weak foliation an...

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Autores principales: Kaczmarek, Mary-Alix, Reddy, Steven M., Nutman, Allen P., Friend, Clark R. L., Bennett, Vickie C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4757760/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26879892
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10665