Secular evolution of continents and the Earth system

PA Cawood, P Chowdhury, JA Mulder… - Reviews of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

The supercontinent cycle

RN Mitchell, N Zhang, J Salminen, Y Liu… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Supercontinents signify self-organization in plate tectonics. Over the past~ 2 billion years,
three major supercontinents have been identified, with increasing age: Pangaea, Rodinia …

Plate tectonics and the Archean Earth

M Brown, T Johnson, NJ Gardiner - Annual Review of Earth and …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
If we accept that a critical condition for plate tectonics is the creation and maintenance of a
global network of narrow boundaries separating multiple plates, then to argue for plate …

[КНИГА][B] Stable isotope geochemistry

J Hoefs, J Hoefs - 2009 - Springer
The nine editions of Stable Isotope Geochemistry have appeared over a time span of nearly
50 years. The first edition (1973) appeared as a slim book of 135 pages. Due to the rapid …

Archaean multi-stage magmatic underplating drove formation of continental nuclei in the North China Craton

J Liu, RM Palin, RN Mitchell, Z Liu, J Zhang, Z Li… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The geodynamic processes that formed Earth's earliest continents are intensely debated.
Particularly, the transformation from ancient crustal nuclei into mature Archaean cratons is …

Magmatic thickening of crust in non–plate tectonic settings initiated the subaerial rise of Earth's first continents 3.3 to 3.2 billion years ago

P Chowdhury, JA Mulder, PA Cawood… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
When and how Earth's earliest continents—the cratons—first emerged above the oceans (ie,
emersion) remain uncertain. Here, we analyze a craton-wide record of Paleo-to …

Coexisting divergent and convergent plate boundary assemblages indicate plate tectonics in the Neoarchean

B Huang, TE Johnson, SA Wilde, A Polat, D Fu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The coexistence of divergent (spreading ridge) and convergent (subduction zone) plate
boundaries at which lithosphere is respectively generated and destroyed is the hallmark of …

[КНИГА][B] Soils of the past: an introduction to paleopedology

GJ Retallack - 2008 - books.google.com
It has been 10 years since publication of the first edition ofSoils of the Past. In that time the
subject of paleopedology hasgrown rapidly, and established itself within the mainstream …

Surface erosion events controlled the evolution of plate tectonics on Earth

SV Sobolev, M Brown - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Plate tectonics is among the most important geological processes on Earth, but its
emergence and evolution remain unclear. Here we extrapolate models of present-day plate …

Reconstructing Earth's atmospheric oxygenation history using machine learning

G Chen, Q Cheng, TW Lyons, J Shen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Reconstructing historical atmospheric oxygen (O2) levels at finer temporal resolution is a top
priority for exploring the evolution of life on Earth. This goal, however, is challenged by gaps …