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
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Frontiers in Earth Sciences (FRONTIERS)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Palaeoproterozoic Earth
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The Fennoscandian Arctic Russia: Drilling Early Earth Project (FAR-DEEP)
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The Fennoscandian Arctic Russia – Drilling Early Earth Project
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Fennoscandia: The First 500 Million Years of the Palaeoproterozoic
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Fennoscandia: the First 500 Million Years of the Palaeoproterozoic
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Geology of the Drilling Sites
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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 punctuated by several extraordinary events and episodes that perturbed the entire Earth system. One of the earliest and arguably greatest of these events was a substantial increase (orders of magnitude) in the atmospheric oxygen abundance, sometimes referred to as the Great Oxidation Event.
Volume 1: The Palaeoproterozoic of Fennoscandia as Context for the Fennoscandian Arctic Russia - Drilling Earth Project describes the implementation of the FAR-DEEP drilling project in Arctic Russia. It summarises the knowledge of more than 50 years of largely Russian-led fieldwork, information hitherto virtually unavailable in the west, and provides geological description of drilling areas with an overwhelming illustration of rocks by high-quality, representative photographs. The volume offers a comprehensive review and rich photo-illustration of palaeotectonic, palaeogeographic and magmatic evolution of the Fennoscandian Shield in the early Palaeoproterozoic, and link the evolution of the shield to the emergence of an aerobic Earth system. The volume unfolds the event-based Fennoscandian chronostratigraphy and discusses the chronology of the Palaeoproterozoic global events as the base for a new subdivision of Palaeoproterozoic time.
Welcome to the illustrative journey through one of the most exciting periods of planet Earth!
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reading the Archive of Earth’s Oxygenation
Book Subtitle: Volume 1: The Palaeoproterozoic of Fennoscandia as Context for the Fennoscandian Arctic Russia - Drilling Early Earth Project
Editors: Victor A. Melezhik, Anthony R. Prave, Anthony E. Fallick, Lee R. Kump, Harald Strauss, Aivo Lepland, Eero J. Hanski
Series Title: Frontiers in Earth Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29682-6
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-29681-9Published: 08 August 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-52201-1Published: 30 April 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-29682-6Published: 22 October 2012
Series ISSN: 1863-4621
Series E-ISSN: 1863-463X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 490
Number of Illustrations: 152 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geology, Climate Change, Earth System Sciences