Discovery of a Hadean xenocrystic zircon in the Cathaysia Block

Affiliations

• ¹ Research Center for Petrogenesis and Mineralization of Granitoid Rocks, China Geological Survey, Wuhan 430205, China; CAS Key Laboratory of Crust-Mantle Materials and Environments, School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China.
• ² Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou 511458, China; Department of Ocean Science, the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong, China. Electronic address: jingyacao@126.com.
• ³ Research Center for Petrogenesis and Mineralization of Granitoid Rocks, China Geological Survey, Wuhan 430205, China.
• ⁴ Key Laboratory of Metallogenic Prediction of Nonferrous Metals and Geological Environment Monitoring, Ministry of Education, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China.
• ⁵ CAS Key Laboratory of Crust-Mantle Materials and Environments, School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China.
• ⁶ Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou 511458, China.
• ⁷ Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou 511458, China; Department of Ocean Science, the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong, China.