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362 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm. Contents: Continent formation through time / N.M.W. Roberts, M.J. Van Kranendonk, S. Parman & P.D. Clift -- Geophysics and numerical modelling. Earth's punctuated tectonic evolution : cause and effect / C. O'Neill, A. Lenadic & K.C. Condie -- The Hudson Bay Lithospheric Experiment (HuBLE) : insights into Precambrian plate tectonics and the development of mantle keels / I.D. Bastow, D.W. Eaton, J.-M. Kendall, G. Helffrich, D.B. Snyder, D.A. Thompson, J. Wookey, F.A. Darbyshire & A.E. Pawlak -- Supercontinent integrity between 0.8 and 0.6 Ga : the nemesis of Rodinia? / J.D.A. Piper -- Geology and geochemistry. Making it thick : a volcanic plateau origin of Palaeoarchean continental lithosphere of the Pilbara and Kaapvaal cratons / M.J. Van Kranendonk, R.H. Smithies, W.L. Griffin, D.L. Huston, A.H. Hickman, D.C. Champion, C.R. Anaeusser & F. Pirajno -- The emergence of the Eoarchaean proto-arc : evolution of a c.3700 Ma convergent plate boundary at Isua, southern West Greenland / A.P. Nutman, V.C. Bennett & C.R.L. Friend -- Neoarchaean crustal growth by combined arc-plume action : evidence from the Kadiri Greenstone Belt, easter Dharwar craton, India / S. Dey, J. Nandy, A.K. Choudhary, Y. Liu & K. Zong -- U-Pb zircon ages and (isotope) geochemical signatures of the Kamanjab Inlier (NW Namibia) : constraints on Palaeoproterozic crustal evolution along the southern Congo craton / I.C. Kleinhanns, T. Fullgraf, F. Wilsky, N. Nolte, D. Fliegel, R. Klemd & B.T. Hansen -- Zircon. The zircon archive of continent formation through time / N.M.W. Roberts & C.J. Spencer -- The oldest crust in the Ukrainian Shield : Eoarchaean U-Pb ages and Hf-Nd constraints from enderbites and metasediments / S. Claesson, E. Bibikova, L. Shumlyanskyy, B. Dhuime & C.J. Hawkesworth -- The Eoarchaean foundation of the North Atlantic Craton / P.J. Lancaster, C.D. Storey & C.J. Hawkesworth -- Zircon U-Pb and Hf- isotopes from the eastern part of the Sveconorwegian Orogen, SW Sweden : implications fro the growth of Fennoscandia / A. Petersson, A. Scherstén, J. Andersson & C. Möller -- A Hf-isotope perspective on continent formation in the south Peruvian Andes / F. Boekhout, N.M.W. Roberts, A. Gerdes & U. Schaltegger -- Gondwana margin evolution from zircon REE, O and Hf signatures of Western Province gneisses, Zealandia / J. Hiess, K. Yi, J. Woodhead, T. Ireland & M. Rattenbury.…