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3.7 billion year old detrital sediments in Greenland are consistent with active plate tectonics in the Eoarchean - Communications Earth & Environment
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Plate tectonic processes modulate element cycling, crust generation, and differentiation, yet at what point in Earth's history these processes emerged remains debated. Here we present evidence that parts of the >3.7 Ga Isua Supracrustal Belt formed within a fore-arc setting, consistent with the operation of plate tectonics in the Eoarchean. We show that the oldest known sequence of detrital meta-sedimentary rocks were deposited conformably above chemical sediments on a volcanic basement.
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