Unlike in the ocean basins where the shallow mantle eventually contributes to the
destruction of the overlying crust, the shallow mantle beneath continents serves as a stiff …

For more than four decades, scientists have been trying to find an answer to one of the most
fundamental questions in paleoclimatology, the “faint young Sun problem.” For the early …

In order to better understand continental growth history, we have determined the U–Pb age
of about 1500 detrital zircons from river sands in three major rivers in North America and …

前寒武纪是指显生宙最古老的地质时代--寒武纪之前的地质时代, 它占了地球演化历史的近90%.
地球陆壳的80%~ 90% 以上是在前寒武纪形成的, 记录了复杂和惊心动魄的地质构造过程 …

A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 title A bold, far-reaching look at how our actions
will decide the planet's future for millennia to come. Imagine a planet where North American …

Much has been learned in the past 40 years about the great diversity of the internal structure
and geochemical compositions of Phanerozoic ophiolites, indicating that these on-land …

In this chapter, we describe that recent progress of our study of Precambrian geology and
geochemistry, and present a synthetic view of the evolution of the solid earth including …

Carbon dioxide is the substrate for the central carbon-fixing enzyme of photosynthesis,
ribulose bisphosphate carboxylaseoxygenase (Rubisco), and is the form of inorganic carbon …

Abstract On Earth, the Archaean aeon lasted from 4.0 to 2.5 Ga; it corresponds to a relatively
stable period. Compared with today, internal Earth heat production was several times …

We present a three‐dimensional spherical shell numerical model for chemical differentiation
and redistribution of incompatible elements in a convective Earth's mantle heated mostly …