Titanium isotopes constrain a magmatic transition at the Hadean-Archean boundary in the Acasta Gneiss Complex

Sarah M Aarons1,2, Jesse R Reimink3,4, Nicolas D Greber5

  • 1Origins Laboratory, Department of the Geophysical Sciences and Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA. smaarons@ucsd.edu.

Science Advances
|December 10, 2020
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