Early Earth

Relevant Publications

Plate Tectonics and the Archean Earth by Brown & Johnston, 2020 in Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Persistence of melt-bearing Archean lower crust for >200 m.y.—An example from the Lewisian Complex, northwest Scotland by Taylor et al., 2019 in Geology

Metamorphism and the evolution of subduction on Earth by Brown & Johnson, 2019 in American Mineralogist

Time’s arrow, time’s cycle: Granulite metamorphism and geodynamics by Brown & Johnson, 2019 in Mineralogical Magazine

Secular change in TTG compositions: Implications for the evolution of Archaean geodynamics by Johnson et al., 2019 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Melting controls on the lutetium–hafnium evolution of Archaean crust by Gardiner et al., 2018 in Precambrian Research

An impact melt origin for Earth’s oldest known evolved rocks by Johnson et al., 2018 in Nature Geoscience

Secular change in metamorphism and the onset of global plate tectonics by Brown & Johnson, 2018 in American Mineralogist

Earth’s first stable continents did not form by subduction by Johnson et al., 2017 in Nature

Zircon geochronology reveals polyphase magmatism and crustal anatexis in the Buchan Block, NE Scotland: Implications for the Grampian Orogeny by Johnson et al., 2017 in Geoscience Frontiers

Subduction or sagduction? Ambiguity in constraining the origin of ultramafic–mafic bodies in the Archean crust of NW Scotland by Johnson et al., 2016 in Precambrian Research

Grampian migmatites in the Buchan Block, NE Scotland by Johnson et al., 2015 in Journal of Metamorphic Geology

Delamination and recycling of Archaean crust caused by gravitational instabilities by Johnson et al., 2014 in Nature Geoscience

Field and petrographic evidence for partial melting of TTG gneisses from the central region of the mainland Lewisian complex, NW Scotland by Johnson et al., 2013 in Journal of the Geological Society

Archaean Intracrustal Differentiation from Partial Melting of Metagabbro—Field and Geochemical Evidence from the Central Region of the Lewisian Complex, NW Scotland by Johnson et al., 2012 in Journal of Petrology

Phase equilibrium constraints on conditions of granulite-facies metamorphism at Scourie, NW Scotland by Johnson et al., 2011 in Journal of the Geological Society

Petrogenetic modelling of strongly residual metapelitic xenoliths within the southern Platreef, Bushveld Complex, South Africa by Johnson et al., 2010 in Journal of Metamorphic Geology

The granulite facies, crustal melting, and prograde and retrograde phase equilibria in metapelites and the amphibolite to granulite facies transition by Johnson & Brown, 2005 in Metamorphism and Crustal Evolution: Papers in Honour of Prof. R.S. Sharma

Constraints on the tectonometamorphic evolution of the Western Ethiopian Shield by Johnson et al., 2004 in Precambrian Research

Spinel–cordierite symplectites replacing andalusite: evidence for melt‐assisted diapirism in the Bushveld Complex, South Africa by Johnson et al., 2004 in Journal of Metamorphic Geology

Evidence for a genetic granite–migmatite link in the Dalradian of NE Scotland by Johnson et al., 2003 in Journal of the Geological Society

Partial Melting of Metapelitic Rocks Beneath the Bushveld Complex, South Africa by Johnson et al., 2003 in Journal of Petrology

Melt segregation structures within the Inzie Head gneisses of the northeastern Dalradian by Johnson et al., 2001 in Scottish Journal of Geology

Partial melting in the Inzie Head gneisses: the role of water and a petrogenetic grid in KFMASH applicable to anatectic pelitic migmatites by Johnson et al., 2001 in Journal of Metamorphic Geology