Abstract
The Archaean is the most important period of crustal growth in the Earth's history. It is characterized by greater heat production and related higher geothermal gradients that favoured the genesis of rocks such as adakites and voluminous tonalite-trondhjemite-granodiorite (TTG) plutonism. However, the tectonic setting of formation of these igneous suites is still a matter of much debate a…