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Record Nr.

UNINA9910437955503321

Titolo

Reading the Archive of Earth’s Oxygenation : Volume 3: Global Events and the Fennoscandian Arctic Russia - Drilling Early Earth Project / / edited by Victor Melezhik, Anthony R. Prave, Eero J. Hanski, Anthony E. Fallick, Aivo Lepland, Lee R. Kump, Harald Strauss

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013

ISBN

9781283640534

1283640538

9783642296703

364229670X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (520 p.)

Collana

Frontiers in Earth Sciences, , 1863-463X

Altri autori (Persone)

MelezhikVictor A

KumpLee R

Disciplina

551.72

Soggetti

Geology

Ecology

Physical geography

Environmental Sciences

Earth System Sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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!