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Title Reading the archive of Earth's oxygenation / Victor A. Melezhik, editor-in-chief ; Anthony R. Prave, Eero J. Hanski, Anthony E. Fallick, Aivo Lepland, Lee R. Kump, Harald Strauss, editors
Published Berlin : Springer, ©2013
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Description 1 online resource (3 volumes) : illustrations
Series Frontiers in earth sciences, 1863-4621
Frontiers in earth sciences (Springer (Firm))
Contents v. 1. The palaeoproterozoic of fennoscandia as context for the Fennoscandian Arctic Russia -- Drilling Early Earth Project -- v. 2. The core archive of the Fennoscandian Arctic Russia -- Drilling Early Earth Project -- v. 3. Global events and the Fennoscandian Arctic Russia -- Drilling Early Earth Project
Summary 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!
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource, vol. 1; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed April 28, 2014)
Subject Fennoscandian Arctic Russia--Drilling Early Earth Project
Gases -- Geology -- Baltic Shield
Geochemistry.
geochemistry.
SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geography.
SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geology.
Gases -- Geology
Geochemistry
Europe -- Baltic Shield
Form Electronic book
Author Strauss, Harald
Kump, Lee R
Lepland, Aivo
Fallick, Anthony E
Hanski, E. (Eero)
Prave, Anthony Robert, 1957-
Melezhik, V. A.
ISBN 9783642296826
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