Geologists Found the World’s Oldest Crater—and It Might Have Jumpstarted All Life on Earth
Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...
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Scientists unravel the mystery of Earth’s first oxygen surge—and it’s volcanic
Ancient eruptions may have triggered conditions for oxygen ‘whiffs’ in the atmosphere In a nutshell Massive volcanic events ...
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Deep Time
Both life and geological processes get their start in the Archaean era amidst a brew of atmospheric gases that probably includes methane and ammonia but little or no free oxygen. As Earth cools ...
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The formation and evolution of continental crust in geological history (IMAGE)
Ancient plate tectonics in the Archean period differs from modern plate tectonics in the Phanerozoic period because of the higher mantle temperatures inside the early Earth, the thicker basaltic ...
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Discovery of stromatolite-like biofilms in thermal waters sheds light on ancient ecosystems
These microorganisms thrived in vast shallow-water colonies in ancient oceans and played a crucial role in increasing atmospheric oxygen around 2.2 billion years ago during the Archean era.
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Earth’s oldest meteorite crater found in Australia
The Archean Eon (4–2.5 million years ago ... “Uncovering this impact and finding more from the same time period could explain a lot about how life may have got started, as impact craters ...
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Earth's Earliest Climate
In the Archean, long before rooted land plants were ... Low-latitude glaciations in the Paleoproterozoic era. Nature 386, 262–266 (1997). Farquhar, J., Bao, H. & Thiemans, M.