Understanding of secular evolution of the Earth system is based largely on the rock and
mineral archive preserved in the continental lithosphere. Based on the frequency and range …

Contrasting models for internal and external locations of South China within the Nuna and
Rodinia supercontinents can be resolved when the current lithotectonic associations of …

Eukaryotic life appears to have flourished surprisingly late in the history of our planet. This
view is based on the low diversity of diagnostic eukaryotic fossils in marine sediments of mid …

The accumulation of oxygen is one of the most important characteristics that distinguish
Earth from other planets in the solar system, which is also considered to be the key factor …

Abstract The Adelaide Superbasin (Adelaide Rift Complex, Stuart Shelf, Torrens Hinge
Zone, Coombalarnie Platform, and Cambrian Stansbury and Arrowie Basins) is a vast …

The average cell size of marine phytoplankton is critical for the flow of energy and nutrients
from the base of the food web to higher trophic levels. Thus, the evolutionary succession of …

Authigenic components in marine sediments are important archives for past environment
reconstructions. However, defining reliable age constraints and assessing the effects of post …

New age data for the Baoban Complex, South China establishes that it lay outboard of
western Laurentia in the early Mesoproterozoic but was not part of the Cathaysia Block, with …

Abstract The ca. 1.5–1.3 Ga Roper Group of the greater McArthur Basin is a component of
one of the most extensive Precambrian hydrocarbon-bearing basins preserved in the …

Today the terrestrial surface drives biogeochemical cycles on Earth through chemical
weathering reactions mediated by the biological influence of soils. Prior to the expansion of …