Low heat flow inferred from >4 Gyr zircons suggests Hadean plate boundary interactions

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  2008-11-27

• Fields of study

  Geology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1038/nature07465PMID 19037314
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