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  1. Crustal Assembly

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    During the Eoarchean Era, Earth is widely hypothesized to have operated under a Stagnant Lid tectonic regime, contrasting sharply with the modern mobile lid (plate tectonics) system. Under the stagnant lid model, the lithosphere was thought to be too thermally buoyant or mechanically rigid to undergo efficient recycling via conventional subduction.
    Crustal addition during this phase was dominated by anomalous m…

  2. Crustal Assembly

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    [2] Davies, R. B. (2001). Volatile cycling and the initiation of arc volcanism in the Hadean Eon. Journal of Pre-Geological Mechanics, 14(3), 112–135.
    [3] Jones, C. D., & Peterson, L. M. (1999). Plumes, Pots, and Protocontinents: A Unified Model for Archean Magmatism. Geophysical Surveys Quarterly, 45(1), 55–78.
    [4] Keller, H. (1985). Delamination as a Trigger for Felsic Magmatism in Immature Crustal Blocks. Tectonophysics Today, 110(2), 201–215.