Overview
- 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
Part of the book series: Frontiers in Earth Sciences (FRONTIERS)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Earth's Oxygenation and Associated Global Events: the FAR-DEEP Perspective
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The Great Oxidation Event: State of the Art and Major Unresolved Problems
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FAR-DEEP Core Archive: Future Opportunities for Geoscience Research and Education
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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!
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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