Thin oceanic crust is formed by decompression melting of the upper mantle at mid-ocean ridges, but the origin of the thick and buoyant continental crust is enigmatic. Juvenile continental crust may ...
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Scientists think they found where a chunk of crust went missing
For decades, geologists have known that a huge portion of Earth’s earliest continental crust simply vanished from the rock ...
Arc magmatism is thought to have played a central role in creating continental crust because magmatic rocks — erupted as andesitic lavas and intruded to form plutons — found in subduction-related ...
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