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地球的部分早期地壳如今仍留在原地

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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Parts of the Earth's Original Crust Remain in Place Today

video: Professor Jonathan O'Neil, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Ottawa, explains how his team found evidence that the core of our stable continents was produced by the remelting of the Earth's primordial crust, believed to be more than 4.2 billion years old. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the March 17, 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by J. O'Neil at University of Ottawa in Ottawa, ON, Canada, and colleagues was titled, "Building Archean cratons from Hadean mafic crust." view more 

Credit: Dave Weatherall, University of Ottawa

对采自加拿大地盾区岩石样本所做的分析表明,其中含有42亿多年前地球最早地壳的部分残余。再现地球最早壳层的性质并发现其残余颇为困难,因为地质活动导致地球成分的循环,使得原先地壳中的大部分被驱赶到了地球的内部。尽管某些有40亿年历史的地壳碎片被保留在了岩石记录中,但只有孤立的锆石矿物颗粒的年代更为久远。在这项研究中,Jonathan O’Neil 和 Richard W. Carlson分析了岩石中钐和钕中的同位素比值;这些岩石采自苏必利尔省(Superior Province),那里位于美国大湖区正北的加拿大部分。这些样本的最主要成分是一种27亿年前形成的花岗岩,但作者指出,形成这些贫镁岩需要有更久远的富镁岩进行“再循环”。鉴于这些样品的年代、它们由富镁岩再循环而形成的时间及样本中钐和钕的同位素比值,作者提出,年代超过42亿年的再造地壳被掺入到了苏必利尔省的有27亿年历史的岩石之中。

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