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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kaczmarek, M., Reddy, Steven, Nutman, A., Friend, C., Bennett, V.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Macmillan Publishers Limited 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/31129