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SCIENCE
Volume 318, Issue 5858, Pages 1907-1910Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1145928
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The oldest rocks-3.85 billion years old- from southwest Greenland have coupled neodymium- 142 excesses ( from decay of now- extinct samarium- 146; half- life, 103 million years) and neodymium- 143 excesses ( from decay of samarium- 147; half- life, 106 billion years), relative to chondritic meteorites, that directly date the formation of chemically distinct silicate reservoirs in the first 30 million to 75 million years of Earth history. The differences in Nd-142 signatures of coeval rocks from the two most extensive crustal relicts more than 3.6 billion years old, in Western Australia and southwest Greenland, reveal early-formed large- scale chemical heterogeneities in Earth's mantle that persisted for at least the first billion years of Earth history. Temporal variations in Nd-142 signatures track the subsequent incomplete remixing of very- early- formed mantle chemical domains.
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