Archean Earth

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Archean Earth

Tempos and Events

Stueeken, Eva; Webb, Alex; Homann, Martin; Mazumder, Rajat; Altermann, Wladyslaw; Heubeck, Christoph; Papineau, Dominic; Lyons, Timothy W.; Mason, Paul RD; Ernst, Richard E.

Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc

12/2025

910

Mole

Inglês

9780323955478

15 a 20 dias

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Chapter 1. FORMATION OF A HABITABLE PLANET
1.1. Introduction
1.2. Earth's Formation and First Billion Years
1.3. Setting the stage: Building and maintaining a habitable world and the early conditions that could favor life's beginnings on Earth and beyond
1.4. Early Impacts: Processes and the Terrestrial Record
1.5 Our Solar System Neighborhood: Three Diverging Tales of Planetary Habitability and Windows to Earth's Past and Future
1.6. What the Zircon Record Reveals About the Habitability of the Hadean Earth
Chapter 2. EVOLUTION OF EARTH'S INTERIOR
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Archean Mantle Heat Transport and Thermal Evolution
2.3. Generation and Preservation of Archean Lithosphere and Crust
2.4. Mantle Differentiation, Mixing and Interior-Exterior Exchange
Chapter 3. ARCHEAN MAGMATISM, TECTONICS AND CONTINENTAL CRUST
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Archean to Mesozoic-Cenozoic Seismic Crustal Structure: Implications for Geological and
Biological Evolution
3.3. Archean Greenstones and Evolving Tectonic Regimes on Earth
3.4. Towards quantification of the style of Archean plate tectonics from paleo-plate boundary features
3.5. Archean Greenstone Belts: Records of Pre-/Non-Plate Tectonics
3.6. Komatiites: their geochemistry and origins
3.7 Record of Archean and earliest Proterozoic Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and their mafic dyke swarms
3.8. The PalaeoPlates compilation of Earth's crustal blocks: Implications for continental growth, recycling, and preservation, and for global paleogeographic reconstructions in Archean and Proterozoic time
3.9. Additional aspects on the Archean magmatic and tectonic record




Chapter 4. ATMOSPHERIC EVOLUTION AND BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Oxygenating Earth
4.3. Evolution of the Archean Atmosphere
4.4. Iron formations: Unique archives to reconstruct the Precambrian Earth
4.5. Ephemeral subaerial environments, paleosols, and life on land: consequences for early continental weathering and global biogeochemistry
4.6 Evolving weathering processes during the Archean Eon
4.7. Evolution of Earth's Biogeochemical Cycles
4.7.1. Metal sources and sinks
4.7.2. Biogeochemical nitrogen cycling on the Archean Earth
4.7.3. Phosphorus bioabailability
4.7.4 Archean Methane Cycling and Life's Co-Evolution: Intertwining Early Biogeochemical Processes and Ancient Microbial Metabolism
Chapter 5. EVOLUTION OF LIFE AND ARCHEAN GEOBIOLOGY
5.1. Introduction, Archean cherts?
5.2. Biosignatures and tests of biogenicity in the early rock record
5.3. Origins of Archean organic matter
5.4. Microbial Mats in the Siliciclastic Rock Record
5.5. Occurrence and Biogenicity of Archean Stromatolites and Microbial Mats
5.6. The Archean microfossil record
5.7. Evidence of Earth's Early Biosphere
5.7.1. Critical evaluation of the age and biosignatures of Earth's oldest purported fossils from the Nuvvuagittuq Supracrustal Belt
5.7.2. Seeking Eoarchean Life Signatures in the Isua Supracrustal Belt and the Akilia Association (Greenland)
5.7.3. Evidence of Earth's Early Biosphere from the Pilbara region, Western Australia.
5.7.4. South Africa's Paleoarchean record of early life
5.7.5. The Archaean record of the Singhbhum Craton - a new window into early life on Earth
5.8. Archean Carbonate Platforms
5.9. Evolving Life and secular changes in the Archean Sedimentation Patterns
Chapter 6. SEDIMENTATION THROUGH ARCHEAN TIME
6.1. Introduction
6.2. Archean Tides and Tidalites: Recognition and Significance
6.3. Archean alluvial, fluvial, lacustrine and glacial deposits: An overview
6.4. Archean Eolian Dynamics, Deposits, and Indicators of Other Weather Phenomena: Lessons from Earth and Mars
6.5. Sedimentary basins of (Paleo-)Archean greenstone belts
6.6. Comparing the Archean stratigraphic sequences of India and South Africa
6.7. Visualizing the Archean through AI
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<p>Archean; Early Earth; Early Life; Precambrian; Photosynthesis; Geobiology; Plate Tectonics; Atmospheric Evolution; Earth Surface Processes; Geology; Time Series</p>