Archive for April 1st, 2021

WFS News: Archean geodynamics: Ephemeral supercontinents or long-lived supercratons 

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Archean geodynamics: Ephemeral supercontinents or long-lived supercratons  Yebo Liu ;Ross N. Mitchell ;Zheng-Xiang Li ;Uwe Kirscher ;Sergei A. Pisarevsky ;Chong Wang,Geology (2021) https://doi.org/10.1130/G48575.1 Many Archean cratons exhibit Paleoproterozoic rifted margins, implying they were pieces of some ancestral landmass(es). The idea that such an ancient continental assembly represents an Archean supercontinent has been proposed […]