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Reading the Archive of Earth’s Oxygenation

Volume 3: Global Events and the Fennoscandian Arctic Russia - Drilling Early Earth Project

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Editors:
  1. Victor A. Melezhik

    1. Geological Survey of Norway, Centre of Excellence in Geobiology, University of Bergen, Trondheim, Norway

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  2. Anthony R. Prave

    1. , Department of Earth Science, University of St Andrews, Fife, United Kingdom

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  3. Eero J. Hanski

    1. , Department of Geosciences, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

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  4. Anthony E. Fallick

    1. , Environmental Research Centre, Scottish Universities, East Kilbride, United Kingdom

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  5. Aivo Lepland

    1. Geological Survey of Norway, Trondheim, Norway

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  6. Lee R. Kump

    1. , Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, USA

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  7. Harald Strauss

    1. , Institut für Geologie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Univ. Münster, Münster, Germany

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  • Establishment of a well-characterized, well-dated and well-archived succession of rocks for the period of 2500-2000 Ma
  • Documentation of the changes in the biosphere and the geosphere associated with the rise in atmospheric oxygen
  • Development of a self-consistent model to explain the genesis and timing of the establishment of the aerobic Earth System

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Earth’s Oxygenation and Associated Global Events: The FAR-DEEP Perspective

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1047-1047
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  3. Earth's Oxygenation and Associated Global Events: the FAR-DEEP Perspective

    1. 7.1 The End of Mass-Independent Fractionation of Sulphur Isotopes

      • M. Reuschel, H. Strauss, A. Lepland
      Pages 1049-1058

    2. 7.2 Huronian-Age Glaciation

      • Victor A. Melezhik, Grant M. Young, Patrick G. Eriksson, Wladyslaw Altermann, Lee R. Kump, Aivo Lepland
      Pages 1059-1109

    3. 7.3 The Palaeoproterozoic Perturbation of the Global Carbon Cycle: The Lomagundi-Jatuli Isotopic Event

      • Victor A. Melezhik, Anthony E. Fallick, Adam P. Martin, Daniel J. Condon, Lee R. Kump, Alex T. Brasier et al.
      Pages 1111-1150

    4. 7.4 An Apparent Oxidation of the Upper Mantle versus Regional Deep Oxidation of Terrestrial Surfaces in the Fennoscandian Shield

      • Kyle S. Rybacki, Lee R. Kump, Eero J. Hanski, Victor A. Melezhik
      Pages 1151-1167

    5. 7.5 Abundant Marine Calcium Sulphates: Radical Change of Seawater Sulphate Reservoir and Sulphur Cycle

      • Harald Strauss, Victor A. Melezhik, Marlene Reuschel, Anthony E. Fallick, Aivo Lepland, Dmitry V. Rychanchik
      Pages 1169-1194

    6. 7.6 Enhanced Accumulation of Organic Matter: The Shunga Event

      • Harald Strauss, Victor A. Melezhik, Aivo Lepland, Anthony E. Fallick, Eero J. Hanski, Michael M. Filippov et al.
      Pages 1195-1273

    7. 7.7 The Earliest Phosphorites: Radical Change in the Phosphorus Cycle During the Palaeoproterozoic

      • Aivo Lepland, Victor A. Melezhik, Dominic Papineau, Alexander E. Romashkin, Lauri Joosu
      Pages 1275-1296

    8. 7.8 Traces of Life

      • Aivo Lepland, Nicola McLoughlin, Victor A. Melezhik, Alex T. Brasier, Pavel V. Medvedev, Emmanuelle J. Javaux et al.
      Pages 1297-1405

    9. 7.9 Terrestrial Environments

      • Lee R. Kump, Kalle Kirsimäe, Victor A. Melezhik, Alexander T. Brasier, Anthony E. Fallick, Paula E. Salminen
      Pages 1407-1456

    10. 7.10 Chemical Characteristics of Sediments and Seawater

      • Lee R. Kump, Anton B. Kuznetsov, Igor M. Gorokhov, Victor A. Melezhik, Juraj Farkaš, Ramananda Chakrabarti et al.
      Pages 1457-1514

  4. The Great Oxidation Event: State of the Art and Major Unresolved Problems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1515-1515
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  5. The Great Oxidation Event: State of the Art and Major Unresolved Problems

    1. 8.1 The Great Oxidation Event

      • Lee R. Kump, Anthony E. Fallick, Victor A. Melezhik, Harald Strauss, Aivo Lepland
      Pages 1517-1533

  6. FAR-DEEP Core Archive: Future Opportunities for Geoscience Research and Education

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1535-1535
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  7. FAR-DEEP Core Archive: Future Opportunities for Geoscience Research and Education

    1. FAR-DEEP Core Archive: Further Opportunities for Earth Science Research and Education

      • Victor A. Melezhik, A. R. Prave
      Pages 1537-1552
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About this book

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. Potential implementation of Ca, Mg, Sr, Fe, Mo, U and Re-Os isotope systems for deciphering Palaeoproterozoic seawater chemistry and a change in the redox-state of water and sedimentary columns are discussed. The volume considers in detail the definition of the oxic atmosphere, possible causes for the oxygen rise, and considers the oxidation of terrestrial environment not as a single event, but a slow-motion process lasting over hundreds of millions of years. Finally, the book provides a roadmap as to how the FAR-DEEP cores may facilitate future interesting science and provide a new foundation for education in earth-science community. Welcome to the illustrative journey through one of the most exciting periods ofplanet Earth!

Reviews

“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 für Geologie und Paläontologie, Issue 5-6, 2014)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Geological Survey of Norway, Centre of Excellence in Geobiology, University of Bergen, Trondheim, Norway

    Victor A. Melezhik

  • , Department of Earth Science, University of St Andrews, Fife, United Kingdom

    Anthony R. Prave

  • , Department of Geosciences, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

    Eero J. Hanski

  • , Environmental Research Centre, Scottish Universities, East Kilbride, United Kingdom

    Anthony E. Fallick

  • Geological Survey of Norway, Trondheim, Norway

    Aivo Lepland

  • , Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, USA

    Lee R. Kump

  • , Institut für Geologie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Univ. Münster, Münster, Germany

    Harald Strauss

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Reading the Archive of Earth’s Oxygenation

  • Book Subtitle: Volume 3: Global Events and the Fennoscandian Arctic Russia - Drilling Early Earth Project

  • Editors: Victor A. Melezhik, Anthony R. Prave, Eero J. Hanski, Anthony E. Fallick, Aivo Lepland, Lee R. Kump, Harald Strauss

  • Series Title: Frontiers in Earth Sciences

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29670-3

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-29669-7Published: 28 September 2012

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-52203-5Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-29670-3Published: 26 September 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1863-4621

  • Series E-ISSN: 1863-463X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 506

  • Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 177 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Geology, Climate Change, Earth System Sciences

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