Crustal growth and reworking at Archean plate margins

1.Introduction Archean cratons have attained and maintained long-term stability,and they are the main area for studying the geological processes and tectonic regime of early Earth.The majority of cratons have completed their cratonization through growth and assemblage of ancient continental nuclei in the late Archean(Cawood et al.,2018;Zeh and Kirchenbaur,2022).