Reading the Archive of Earth's Oxygenation, Volume 3 Global Events and the Fennoscandian Arctic Russia - Drilling Early Earth Project

By: Victor A Melezhik(Editor), Anthony R Prave(Editor), Anthony E Fallick(Editor), Lee R Kump(Editor), Harald Strauss(Editor), Aivo Lepland(Editor), Eero J Hanski(Editor)

528 pages, 177 colour & 12 b/w illustrations

Publisher: Springer Nature

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Earth's present-day environments are the outcome of a 4.5 billion year period of evolution reflecting the interaction of global-scale geological and biological processes. Punctuating that evolution were several extraordinary events and episodes that perturbed the entire Earth system and led to the creation of new environmental conditions, sometimes even to fundamental changes in how planet Earth operated. Volume 3: Global Events and the Fennoscandian Arctic Russia - Drilling Earth Project represents another kind of illustrated journey through the early Palaeoproterozoic, provided by syntheses, reviews and summaries of the current state of our understanding of a series of global events that resulted in a fundamental change of the Earth System from an anoxic to an oxic state.

The book discusses traces of life, possible causes for the Huronian-age glaciations, addresses radical changes in carbon, sulphur and phosphorus cycles during the Palaeoproterozoic, and provides a comprehensive description and a rich photo-documentation of the early Palaeoproterozoic supergiant, petrified oil-field. Terrestrial environments are characterised through a critical review of available data on weathered and calichified surfaces and travertine deposits.

Part VII. Earth's Oxygenation and Associated Global Events:The FAR-DEEP Perspective
Part VIII. The Great Oxidation Event: State of the Art and Major 433 Unresolved Problems
Part IX. FAR-DEEP Core Archive: Future Opportunities for Geoscience Research and Education

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Series: Frontiers in Earth Sciences

By: Victor A Melezhik(Editor), Anthony R Prave(Editor), Anthony E Fallick(Editor), Lee R Kump(Editor), Harald Strauss(Editor), Aivo Lepland(Editor), Eero J Hanski(Editor)

528 pages, 177 colour & 12 b/w illustrations

Publisher: Springer Nature

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"The third volume of the three-volume set dedicated to this outstanding project comprises major theoretical contributions reviewing the planetary dynamics at the times of the so-called 'Great Oxidation Event. ... strongly recommended to all Precambrain geologists (including stratigraphers, geochemists, and economic geologists) and palaeontologists (including palaeobiologists and geo-(astro-)biologists) ... . This volume will be both interesting and enjoyable to not only professionals, but also many students specialized in the Precambrian geology." (Zentralblatt fur Geologie und Palaontologie, Issue 5-6, 2014)

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