Continental growth

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Armstrong R. L. (1981) Radiogenic isotopes the case for crustal recycling on a near-steady-state no-continental-growth Earth. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. London A 301, 443-472. 

Reymer A. and Schubert G. (1984) Phanerozoic addition rates to the continental crust and continental growth. Tectonics 3, 63-77. 

Kerrich R., Wyman D., HoUngs P., and Polat A. (1999) Variability of Nb/U and Th/L.a in the 3.0-2.7 Ga superior province ocean plateau basalts implications for the timing of continental growth and lithosphere recycling, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 168, 101-115. 

Polat A. and Kerrich R. (2000) Archean greenstone belt magmatism and the continental growth-mantle evolution connection constraints from Th-U-Nb-LREE systematics of the 2.7 Ga Wawa subprovince, Superior Province, Canada. Earth. Planet. Set Lett. 175, 41-54. 

Mareschal J.-C., Jaupart C., Cheng L.-Z., Rolandone F., Gariepy C., Bienfait G., Guillou-Frottier L., and Lapointe R. (1999) Heat flow in the Trans Hudson Orogen of the Canadian Shield implications for Proterozoic continental growth. J. Geophys. Res. 104, 29007-29024. 

Jahn B. M., Wu E. Y., and Chen B. (2000) Massive granitoid generation in central Asia Nd isotope evidence and implication for continental growth in the Phanerozoic. Episodes 23, 82-92. 

The above scenario is appealing, but not mandatory. As shown by Godderis and Veizer (2000), the same logistic scenario of continental growth that generated the strontium isotope trend can also generate the observed pattern... 

Figure 29 Model sulfur isotopic evolution in the course of geologic history. The lower trend (labeled 6 Sred) represents the for sulfides. The upper curves (labeled 6 Sox) are the of marine sulfates. TML and VJ simulations assume a logistic type of continental growth as proposed by Taylor and McLennan (1985) and Veizer and Jansen (1979), respectively. BB simulation assumes an instantaneous generation of continental crust, BB-evol simulation assumes instantaneous continental generation, but with delayed invention of oxygen generating photosynthesis. The Phanerozoic trend as in Figure 30. Dots represent measurements of Precambrian sulfates (Claypool et al, 1980) and the hatched field represents sulfates from Holser et al. (1988) (after Godderis...

Godderis Y. and Veizer J. (2000) Tectonic control of chemical and isotopic composition of ancient oceans the impact of continental growth. Am. J. Sci. 300, 434-461. 

Veizer J. (1988b) Continental growth comments on The Archean-Proterozoic transition evidence from Guyana and Montana by A. K. Gibbs C. W. Montgomery P. A. O Day and E. A. Erslev. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 52, 789-792. 

The second period of cratonic development (onset c. 3.1 Ga) was viewed by de Wit and coworkers (de Wit et al. 1992 de Wit Hart 1993) as a period of continental growth through a combination of tectonic accretion of smaller crustal terranes and subduction-related igneous and tectonic processes. Craton development culminated... 

Carlson, R. W., Boyd, F. R., Shirey, S. B. 14others 2000. Continental growth, preservation and modification in southern Africa. GSA Today, 10,1-7. 

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