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Vol.2, No.10, 1079-1084 (2010) Natural Science /10.4236/ns.2010.210134 Secular evolution of continental crust: recorded from massif-type charnockites of Eastern Ghats belt, India 1 2 Samarendra Bhattacharya , Ashwini Kumar Chaudhary * 1Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India; 2Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India; *Corresponding Author: samar.bhattacharya@. Received 15 July 2010; revised 18 August 2010; accepted 23 August 2010. ABSTRACT the later period (post-Archean), significant differences in key geochemical features have been documented between It is reasonably well established that the Earth Archean and later granitic rocks [3-5]. Moreover, tec- has substantially cooled from the Archean to tonic setting for Archean magmatism as exemplified by the present and hence the sites, rates and pro- TTG remains unresolved. Partial melting may have taken cesses of crust formation must have changed place in subducted slabs [6,7] or in underplated basalt through geologic time. Archean and Proterozoic beneath thickened crust or oceanic plateau [8]. TTG granitic rocks are the principal record of such suites of Archean greenstone belts