The Himalayas - A modern analogue for Archean crustal evolution

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Jan 1988

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1988e%26psl..87..127w&link_type=abstract

Earth and Planetary Science Letters (ISSN 0012-821X), vol. 87, no. 1-2, Jan. 1988, p. 127-136.

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Earth Crust, Earth Planetary Structure, Geotemperature, Himalayas, Planetary Evolution, Isostatic Pressure, Tectonics

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Present crustal evolution models fail to account for the generation of the large volumes of continental crust in the required time intervals. If the oceanic crust was appreciably thicker in the Archaean, as geothermal models would indicate, then oceanic crustal collision on the scale of the present-day Himalayan continental collision zone may have been a frequent occurrence in the Archaean, resulting in extensive partial melting of the hydrous underthrust oceanic crust to produce voluminous tonalite melts leaving a depleted stabilized basic residuum.

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