ERC Starting Grant · 2023
The Chromite Record of Mafic Crustal Growth
Understanding Earth's crustal growth is crucial to understanding the evolution of its tectonics, the birth of the first continents, and the fundamental changes that transformed Earth into a habitable planet. However, much of our understanding of Earth's crustal growth is predicated on a single mineral - zircon - that is strongly biased towards detecting felsic crustal growth. This is particularly problematic for the early Earth, where average crustal compositions were far more mafic than today, and the very first protocrust may be entirely undetectable using conventional methods. I propose to access the mafic to ultramafic crustal growth record using detrital chromite preserved in…
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