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Thermal Convection in the Archaean Crust?

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Two genetic models have been compared for a tectonic pattern typical of undisturbed remnants of Archaean crust. A model implying simple thermal convection in a granodioritic crustal layer is found to have advantages over the classic model assuming the gregarious batholiths of Rhodesia to be granite diapirs.

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TALBOT, C. Thermal Convection in the Archaean Crust?. Nature 220, 552–556 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/220552a0

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