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Quantifying the correlation between mobile continents and elevated temperatures in the subcontinental mantle (2019)
Journal Article
Jain, C., Rozel, A., & Tackley, P. (2019). Quantifying the correlation between mobile continents and elevated temperatures in the subcontinental mantle. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 20(3), 1358-1386. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018gc007586

Continents influence the mantle's convective wavelength and the heat flow escaping from the planet's surface. Over the last few decades, many numerical and analytical studies have contributed to the debate about whether the continents can warm up the... Read More about Quantifying the correlation between mobile continents and elevated temperatures in the subcontinental mantle.

Growing primordial continental crust self-consistently in global mantle convection models (2019)
Journal Article
Jain, C., Rozel, A., Tackley, P., Sanan, P., & Gerya, T. (2019). Growing primordial continental crust self-consistently in global mantle convection models. Gondwana Research, 73, 96-122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2019.03.015

The majority of continental crust formed during the hotter Archean was composed of Tonalite-Trondhjemite-Granodiorite (TTG) rocks. In contrast to the present-day loci of crust formation around subduction zones and intra-plate tectonic settings, TTGs... Read More about Growing primordial continental crust self-consistently in global mantle convection models.