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Rudnick 1995

Rudnick, R.L. (1995). Making Continental-Crust. Nature 378(6557): 571-578.

The continental crust has an andesitic bulk composition, which cannot have been produced by the basaltic magmatism that dominates sites of present-day crustal growth-at both convergent margins and within plates. These observations suggest that there may have been a different mode of continental crust generation in Archaean times, and may point to delamination of the lower crust as an important recycling process.

Keywords
subduction-zone magmas, island-arc crust, chemical-composition, oceanic plateaus, mantle boundary, phase-relations, high-pressures, isotopic data, flood-basalt, growth

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Nature
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