"Titanium and iron isotopic records of granitoid crust production in di" by Zhe J. Zhang, Nicolas Dauphas et al.
Archean granitoid provides critical clues on how Earth's felsic crust was established and its geodynamics evolved. In this study, we present Fe-Ti isotope and trace-element data for granitoids (mostly TTGs) from the ∼3.8-3.6 Ga Itsaq Gneiss Complex and ∼3.3 Ga East Pilbara Terrane, Pilbara Craton. TTGs from those localities and several other cratons follow the same Ti isotopic fractionation trend as modern calc-alkaline rocks. This similarity hides important petrogenetic differences as partial melting could have played a much more important role in establishing the felsic character of...
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