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  1. The pulse of continental crust production and the structure of the galaxy
  2. Quantifying Melting Reactions in Granitic Veins in Eclogite Exhumed From Ultrahigh‐Pressure
  3. Impact heating and the hidden Hadean
  4. Iron and zinc isotopic insights into the formation of Archean continental crust
  5. Subduction modulated the long-term oxygenation of Earth’s surface
  6. Insights into early continental crust formation from the most ancient heart of Scotland
  7. Variable Sr Diffusion and Implications for Rb–Sr Biotite Geochronology
  8. Eclogites and eclogites: Implications for Archean tectonics
  9. Garnet as a reliable timekeeper in Archean polymetamorphic terranes
  10. The evolution of Earth’s early continental crust
  11. An exogenic to endogenic thermal transition on Earth 3.9 billion years ago
  12. Incipient continent formation by shallow melting of an altered mafic protocrust
  13. A potential mantle origin for precursor rocks of high-Mg impact glass beads in Chang’e-5 soil
  14. Formation and composition of Earth’s Hadean protocrust
  15. Subducted magnesite in serpentinite carries fluid-mobile elements and carbon into the lower mantle
  16. A Paleoarchaean impact crater in the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia
  17. Enhanced subduction flux during the assembly of Pangea recorded by global intracontinental magmatism
  18. Fresh water on Earth four billion years ago
  19. Global mantle perturbations following the onset of modern plate tectonics
  20. Is plate tectonics a post-Archean phenomenon? A petrological perspective
  21. Onset of the Earth’s hydrological cycle four billion years ago or earlier
  22. Paleoarchean metamorphism in the Acasta Gneiss Complex: Constraints from phase equilibrium modelling and in situ garnet Lu–Hf geochronology
  23. Bimodality in zircon oxygen isotopes and implications for crustal melting on the early Earth
  24. Changes in orogenic style and surface environment recorded in Paleoproterozoic foreland successions
  25. Giant impacts and the origin and evolution of continents
  26. Multiple dates in millimetres; diffusion as an explanation for Rb-Sr age discrepancies in biotite
  27. Pressure–temperature conditions and age of metamorphism in the Archean Acasta Gneiss Complex: constraints from phase equilibrium modelling and in situ garnet Lu-Hf geochronology
  28. Ultra-slow cooling of ultra-hot orogens
  29. Greenstone burial–exhumation cycles at the late Archean transition to plate tectonics
  30. Coexisting divergent and convergent plate boundary assemblages indicate plate tectonics in the Neoarchean
  31. Giant impacts and the origin and evolution of continents
  32. Secular changes in metamorphism and metamorphic cooling rates track the evolving plate-tectonic regime on Earth
  33. Experimental constraints on the long-lived radiogenic isotope evolution of the Moon
  34. Newly-discovered ultra-high temperature granulites from the East Hebei terrane, North China Craton
  35. How old are the Jack Hills metasediments really?: The case for contamination of bedrock by zircon grains in transported regolith
  36. Linking metamorphism and plate boundaries over the past 2 billion years
  37. Geology Bites podcast by Oliver Strimpel
  38. Closing the “North American Magmatic” Gap: Crustal evolution of the Clearwater Block from multi-isotope and trace element zircon data
  39. Pb isotope insight into the formation of the Earth's first stable continents
  40. Boninitic blueschists record subduction initiation and subsequent accretion of an arc–forearc in the northeast Proto-Tethys Ocean
  41. Detrital zircon U–Pb and Hf signatures of Paleo-Mesoproterozoic strata in the Priest River region, northwestern USA: A record of Laurentia assembly and Nuna tenure
  42. Model versus measured detrital zircon age signatures of the early Earth
  43. Metasediment-derived Melts in Subduction-zone Magmas and their Influence on Crustal Evolution
  44. A model for evolving crust on 4 Vesta through combined compositional and thermal modelling
  45. Crustal melting and suprasolidus phase equilibria: From first principles to the state-of-the-art
  46. Recovering P–T–t paths from ultra-high temperature (UHT) felsic orthogneiss: An example from the Southern Brasília Orogen, Brazil
  47. Continental basalts track secular cooling of the mantle and the onset of modern plate tectonics
  48. Using zircon in mafic migmatites to disentangle complex high-grade gneiss terrains – Terrane spotting in the Lewisian complex, NW Scotland
  49. Formation and Evolution of a Neoproterozoic Continental Magmatic Arc
  50. Oxygen isotopes trace the origins of Earth’s earliest continental crust
  51. Geology of non-plate tectonic regimes: detrital zircon age records and beyond
  52. Partial Melting of Bimineralic Eclogite by Clinopyroxene Breakdown 
  53. Zircon U-Pb and Lu-Hf record from the Archean Lewisian Gneiss Complex, NW Scotland
  54. Recalibrating Rodinian rifting in the northwestern United States
  55. The phases of the Moon: Modelling crystallisation of the lunar magma ocean through equilibrium thermodynamics
  56. Controls on the scales of equilibrium during granulite facies metamorphism
  57. Partial melting of ultrahigh-pressure eclogite by omphacite-breakdown facilitates exhumation of deeply-subducted crust
  58. Theoretical versus empirical secular change in zircon composition
  59. The internal structure and geodynamics of Mars inferred from a 4.2-Gyr zircon record
  60. TTG generation by fluid-fluxed crustal melting: Direct evidence from the Proterozoic Georgetown Inlier, NE Australia
  61. Paired metamorphism in the Neoarchean: A record of accretionary-to-collisional orogenesis in the North China Craton
  62. A Baltic heritage in Scotland: Basement terrane transfer during the Grenvillian orogeny
  63. Plate Tectonics and the Archean Earth
  64. Critical role of water in the formation of continental crust
  65. Petrogenesis of leucosome sheets in migmatitic UHP eclogites—Evolution from silicate-rich supercritical fluid to hydrous melt
  66. A review of the chondrite–achondrite transition, and a metamorphic facies series for equilibrated primitive stony meteorites
  67. Persistence of melt-bearing Archean lower crust for >200 m.y.— An example from the Lewisian Complex, northwest Scotland
  68. Quantitative automated mineralogy to constrain metamorphic processes using ZEISS Mineralogic
  69. Evolution of geodynamics since the Archean: Significant change at the dawn of the Phanerozoic
  70. Modelling U-Pb discordance in the Acasta Gneiss: Implications for fluid–rock interaction in Earth's oldest dated crust
  71. Persistence of melt-bearing Archean lower crust for >200 m.y.—An example from the Lewisian Complex, northwest Scotland
  72. No evidence for high-pressure melting of Earth’s crust in the Archean
  73. Garnet, the archetypal cubic mineral, grows tetragonal
  74. The Mangaroon Orogeny: Synchronous c. 1.7 Ga magmatism and low-P, high-T metamorphism in the West Australian Craton
  75. Into the melting pot: A celebration of the career of Michael Brown
  76. Metamorphism and the evolution of subduction on Earth
  77. Metamorphism and the evolution of plate tectonics
  78. Testing the fidelity of thermometers at ultrahigh temperatures
  79. Time's arrow, time's cycle: Granulite metamorphism and geodynamics
  80. Closed system behaviour of argon in osumilite records protracted high‐ T metamorphism within the Rogaland–Vest Agder Sector, Norway
  81. Corrigendum to: ’Modelling the Hafnium–Neodymium Evolution of Early Earth: A Study from West Greenland’
  82. Antimony in rutile as a pathfinder for orogenic gold deposits
  83. Nanoscale constraints on the shock-induced transformation of zircon to reidite
  84. Performing process-oriented investigations involving mass transfer using Rcrust: a new phase equilibrium modelling tool
  85. Zircon U–Pb, Lu–Hf and O isotopes from the 3414 Ma Strelley Pool Formation, East Pilbara Terrane, and the Palaeoarchaean emergence of a cryptic cratonic core
  86. Secular change in TTG compositions: Implications for the evolution of Archaean geodynamics
  87. A window into an ancient backarc? The magmatic and metamorphic history of the Fraser Zone, Western Australia
  88. Modelling the Hafnium–Neodymium Evolution of Early Earth: A Study from West Greenland
  89. Neoproterozoic evolution and Cambrian reworking of ultrahigh temperature granulites in the Eastern Ghats Province, India
  90. Zircon as a metamorphic timekeeper: A case study from the Caledonides of central Norway
  91. An impact melt origin for Earth’s oldest known evolved rocks
  92. New constraints on granulite facies metamorphism and melt production in the Lewisian Complex, northwest Scotland
  93. Secular change in metamorphism and the onset of global plate tectonics
  94. Melting controls on the lutetium–hafnium evolution of Archaean crust
  95. Zircon geochronology reveals polyphase magmatism and crustal anatexis in the Buchan Block, NE Scotland: Implications for the Grampian Orogeny
  96. Processes of crust formation in the early Earth imaged through Hf isotopes from the East Pilbara Terrane
  97. Fluid generation and evolution during exhumation of deeply subducted UHP continental crust: Petrogenesis of composite granite-quartz veins in the Sulu belt, China
  98. Earth’s first stable continents did not form by subduction
  99. Reappraising the P–T evolution of the Rogaland–Vest Agder Sector, southwestern Norway
  100. Mechanisms of deformation-induced trace element migration in zircon resolved by atom probe and correlative microscopy
  101. se-2016-97. Arrested development – a comparative analysis of multilayer corona textures in metamorphic rocks
  102. Subduction or sagduction? Ambiguity in constraining the origin of ultramafic–mafic bodies in the Archean crust of NW Scotland
  103. Grain size matters: Implications for element and isotopic mobility in titanite
  104. Constraints on the timing and conditions of high-grade metamorphism, charnockite formation and fluid-rock interaction in the Trivandrum Block, southern India
  105. The source of Dalradian detritus in the Buchan Block, NE Scotland: application of new tools to detrital datasets
  106. Discriminating prolonged, episodic or disturbed monazite age spectra: An example from the Kalak Nappe Complex, Arctic Norway
  107. Metamorphism and partial melting of ordinary chondrites: Calculated phase equilibria
  108. Hot orogens and supercontinent amalgamation: A Gondwanan example from southern India
  109. Precambrian reidite discovered in shocked zircon from the Stac Fada impactite, Scotland
  110. Grampian migmatites in the Buchan Block
  111. Unravelling the complexities in high-grade rocks using multiple techniques: the Achankovil Zone of southern India
  112. Prograde and retrograde growth of monazite in migmatites: An example from the Nagercoil Block, southern India
  113. The effect of Mn on mineral stability in metapelites revisited: newa-xrelations for manganese-bearing minerals
  114. Partial melting of metabasic rocks in Val Strona di Omegna, Ivrea Zone, northern Italy
  115. New mineral activity-composition relations for thermodynamic calculations in metapelitic systems
  116. Thermobarometric constraints on pressure variations across the Plattengneiss shear zone of the Eastern Alps: implications for exhumation models during Eoalpine subduction
  117. Delamination and recycling of Archaean crust caused by gravitational instabilities
  118. Migmatites in the Ivrea Zone (NW Italy): Constraints on partial melting and melt loss in metasedimentary rocks from Val Strona di Omegna
  119. Field and petrographic evidence for partial melting of TTG gneisses from the central region of the mainland Lewisian complex, NW Scotland
  120. Polymetamorphism in the mainland Lewisian complex, NW Scotland - phase equilibria and geochronological constraints from the Cnoc an t’Sidhean suite
  121. Archaean Intracrustal Differentiation from Partial Melting of Metagabbro--Field and Geochemical Evidence from the Central Region of the Lewisian Complex, NW Scotland
  122. Phase equilibrium constraints on a deep crustal metamorphic field gradient: metapelitic rocks from the Ivrea Zone (NW Italy)
  123. Is the Crucible Reproducible? Reconciling Melting Experiments with Thermodynamic Calculations
  124. A year in the life of an aluminous metapelite xenolith—The role of heating rates, reaction overstep, H2O retention and melt loss
  125. Phase equilibrium constraints on conditions of granulite-facies metamorphism at Scourie, NW Scotland
  126. Petrogenetic modelling of strongly residual metapelitic xenoliths within the southern Platreef, Bushveld Complex, South Africa
  127. Partial melting of metagreywacke: a calculated mineral equilibria study
  128. Spinel-cordierite symplectites replacing andalusite: evidence for melt-assisted diapirism in the Bushveld Complex, South Africa
  129. Constraints on the tectonometamorphic evolution of the Western Ethiopian Shield
  130. Quantitative Constraints on Metamorphism in the Variscides of Southern Brittany--a Complementary Pseudosection Approach
  131. Evidence for a genetic granite–migmatite link in the Dalradian of NE Scotland
  132. Melt segregation structures within the Inzie Head gneisses of the northeastern Dalradian
  133. Partial melting in the Inzie Head gneisses: the role of water and a petrogenetic grid in KFMASH applicable to anatectic pelitic migmatites
  134. Wollastonite-bearing assemblages from the Dalradian at Fraserburgh, northeast Scotland and their bearing on the emplacement of garnetiferous granitoid sheets