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A little quiz...

1/ Why can we expect warmer geotherm in the Archaean?

2/ What is the average Moho temperature in Phanaerozoic and Archaean lithopheres?

3/ What is the prime mechanical consequence of a warmer geotherm?

4/ What is the cause of gravitational forces?

5/ Why were gravitational forces larger in the Archaean?

 

6/ What happen when a soft lithosphere is squeezed?

7/ What happen to the geotherm when a thick cover of volcanic rocks are deposited on top of a very radiogenic continental crust.

8/ Why is a greenstone covers (the volcanic layer) on top of a warm continental crust mechanically instable?

9/ In the domes and basins of Archaean craton, what rocks form the domes, and what rocks form the basins?