The timetable of evolution

AH Knoll, MA Nowak - Science advances, 2017 - science.org
The integration of fossils, phylogeny, and geochronology has resulted in an increasingly
well-resolved timetable of evolution. Life appears to have taken root before the earliest …

Volcanic degassing, hydrothermal circulation and the flourishing of early life on Earth: A review of the evidence from c. 3490-3240 Ma rocks of the Pilbara Supergroup …

MJ Van Kranendonk - Earth-Science Reviews, 2006 - Elsevier
New data gathered during mapping of c. 3490–3240 Ma rocks of the Pilbara Supergroup in
the Pilbara Craton show that most bedded chert units originated as epiclastic and …

[HTML][HTML] Stagnant lids and mantle overturns: Implications for Archaean tectonics, magmagenesis, crustal growth, mantle evolution, and the start of plate tectonics

JH Bédard - Geoscience Frontiers, 2018 - Elsevier
The lower plate is the dominant agent in modern convergent margins characterized by
active subduction, as negatively buoyant oceanic lithosphere sinks into the asthenosphere …

Earth's first stable continents did not form by subduction

TE Johnson, M Brown, NJ Gardiner, CL Kirkland… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
The geodynamic environment in which Earth's first continents formed and were stabilized
remains controversial. Most exposed continental crust that can be dated back to the …

A catalytic delamination-driven model for coupled genesis of Archaean crust and sub-continental lithospheric mantle

JH Bédard - Geochimica et cosmochimica acta, 2006 - Elsevier
There is no consensus on the processes responsible for near-coeval formation of Archaean
continental crust (dominantly tonalite–trondhjemite–granodiorite: TTG), greenstone belts …

Stromatolite reef from the Early Archaean era of Australia

AC Allwood, MR Walter, BS Kamber, CP Marshall… - Nature, 2006 - nature.com
Abstract The 3,430-million-year-old Strelley Pool Chert (SPC)(Pilbara Craton, Australia) is a
sedimentary rock formation containing laminated structures of probable biological origin …

[图书][B] Global tectonics

P Kearey, KA Klepeis, FJ Vine - 2009 - books.google.com
The third edition of this widely acclaimed textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to
all aspects of global tectonics, and includes major revisions to reflect the most significant …

Sea-floor tectonics and submarine hydrothermal systems

MD Hannington, CEJ De Ronde, S Petersen - 2005 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The discovery of metal-depositing hot springs on the sea floor, and especially their link to
chemosynthetic life, was among the most compelling and significant scientific advances of …

[图书][B] Earth as an evolving planetary system

KC Condie - 2021 - books.google.com
Earth as an Evolving Planetary System, Fourth Edition discusses key topics dealing with the
evolution and interaction through time of Earth's crust, mantle, core, atmosphere …

[图书][B] Applied geothermics

L Eppelbaum, I Kutasov, A Pilchin - 2014 - Springer
Geothermics is an area of geophysics that studies the thermal state and history of the interior
of the Earth. Solar heat penetrates only into the topmost layers of the Earth's crust. Diurnal …