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