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Heterogeneous Hadean Hafnium: Evidence of Continental Crust at 4.4 to 4.5 Ga

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2005

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Harrison, Timothy
Blichert-Toft, Janne
Mueller, Wolfgang
Albarede, Francis
Holden, Peter
Mojzsis, Stephen

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American Association for the Advancement of Science

Abstract

The long-favored paradigm for the development of continental crust is one of progressive growth beginning at ∼4 billion years ago (Ga). To test this hypothesis, we measured initial176Hf/177Hf values of 4.01- to 4.37-Ga detrital zircons from Jack Hills,

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Keywords: Earth (planet); Hafnium; Lutetium; Reservoirs (water); Continental crust; Heterogeneous hadean hafnium; Hypothesis; Geochemistry; hafnium; zirconium; continental crust; crustal evolution; geochemistry; hafnium; Precambrian; article; astronomy; Australia;

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/80135

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ANU Research Publications

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Science

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10.1126/science.1117926

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2037-12-31

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