Crustal growth

Stern, R.A., Machado, N., Syme, E.C., Lucas, S.B., David, J. 1999. Chronology of crustal growth and recycling in the Paleoproterozoic Amisk collage (Flin Flon Belt), Trans-Hudson Orogen, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 36, 1807-1827. 

Note that the left-hand side has not been expressed as dM(r, t)/dt as in Michard et al. (1985), which would incorrectly imply a crustal growth rate, but as a density of probability of the crustal ages for T in the vicinity of t. The integral in the middle term represents the eroded components summed over all the class ages [T, T + dT] from T = 0 to T = t. 

De Paolo, D. J. (1980). Crustal growth and mantle evolution inferences from models of element transport and Nd and Sr isotopes. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 44, 1185-96. 

Drummond, M.S. Defant, M.J. 1990. A model for trondhjemite-tonalite-dacite genesis and crustal growth via slab melting Archean to modern comparison. Journal of Geophysical Research, 95, 21503-21521. 

Puchtel I. S., Hofmann A. W., Mezger K., Jochum K. P., Shchipansky A. A., and Samsonov A. V. (1998) Oceanic plateau model for continental crustal growth in the Archaean a case study from the Kostomuksha greenstone belt, NW Baltic Shield. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 155, 57-74. 

Stein M. and Hofmann A. W. (1994) Mantle plumes and episodic crustal growth. Nature 372, 63-68. 

Jacobsen S. B. (1988) Isotopic constraints on crustal growth and recycling. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 90, 315-329. 

Common to all crustal growth models is that simple cmstal extraction using the known amount of Early Archean cmst cannot readily account for the degree of depletion evident in some interpretations of the initial and enr compositions of the Archean mantle (Section 2.13.2). In the next sections, the effects of processes other than progressive growth of the continental cmst from a depleting mantle are considered. 

Armstrong R. L. (1991) The persistent myth of crustal growth. Austral. J. Earth Sci. 38, 613-640. 

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

Downes H., Peltonen P., Manttari I., and Sharkov E. V. (2002) Proterozoic zircon ages from lower crustal granulite xenoliths. Kola Peninsula, Russia evidence for crustal growth and reworking. J. Geol. Soc. 159, 485-488. 

Rudnick R. L. (1990b) Nd and Sr isotopic compositions of lower crustal xenoliths from North Queensland, Australia implications for Nd model ages and crustal growth processes. Chem. Geol. 83, 195 - 208. 

Wass S. Y. and Hollis J. D. (1983) Crustal growth in southeastern Australia—evidence from lower crustal eclogitic and granulitic xenoliths. J. Metamorph. Geol. 1, 25-45. 

Ague J. J. (1995) Deep crustal growth of quartz, kyanite, and garnet into large aperture, fluid-filled fractures, north-eastern Connecticut, USA. J. Metamorph. Geol. 13, 299-314. 

Crustal Growth Events and Recycling into the Mantle... 

Early in the evolution of isotopic studies of ancient crust, Moorbath (1975, 1978) developed the concepts of (i) major Precambrian crustal growth events in which juvenile crust was made, and (ii) the essential indestructibility of continental crust once consolidated by orogenic events. 

Hu A. Q., Jahn B. M., Zhang G. X., and Zhang Q. F. (2000) Crustal evolution and Phanerozoic crustal growth in northern Xinjiang Nd-Sr isotopic evidence Part I. Isotopic characterisation of basement rocks. Tectonophysics 328, 15—51. 

Patchett P. J. and Chase C. G. (2002) Role of transform continental margins in major crustal growth episodes. Geology 30, 39—42. 

Patchett P. J. and Gehrels G. E. (1998) Continental influence on Canadian Cordilleran terrains from Nd isotopic study, and significance for crustal growth processes. J. Geol. 106, 269-280. 

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