MAKING CONTINENTAL-CRUST

被引:1164
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RUDNICK, RL
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[1] Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138
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10.1038/378571a0
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
The continental crust has an andesitic bulk composition, which cannot have been produced by the basaltic magmatism that dominates sites of present-day crustal growth-at both convergent margins and within plates. These observations suggest that there may have been a different mode of continental crust generation in Archaean times, and may point to delamination of the lower crust as an important recycling process.
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