Sublithospheric diamonds: Plate tectonics from Earth's deepest samples (Annual Reviews, 2024)
✦ Field camp on Robinson Lake in the Central Slave Basement Complex of the Slave Craton, August 2016. (photo: Steve Shirey)
This USGS map depicts the ages of the last tectonothermal event that the crust of the Earth has experienced. Archean crust is shown in orange. While not a large percentage of the crust by volume, Archean crust occupies a central position as a nucleus for continental growth and as a site for the production of mineThis USGS map depicts the ages of the last tectonothermal event that the crust of the Earth has experienced. Archean crust is shown in orange. While not a large percentage of the crust by volume, Archean crust occupies a central position as a nucleus for continental growth and as a site for the production of mineral resources.