Impact Cratering: A Role in the Formation of the First Felsic Continental Crust?

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Mar 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001lpi....32.1905t&link_type=abstract

32nd Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, March 12-16, 2001, Houston, Texas, abstract no.1905

Physics

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Large impacts on Earth have generated pools of melt rocks. These early
impact melts were deep, cooled slowly, and may have produced felsic
differentiates in a 'near-surface' environment, which may have played a
role in the formation of continents.

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