Late Archean to Early Paleoproterozoic global tectonics, environmental change and the rise of atmospheric oxygen

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 238, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 156-171

  Barley, Mark E ^a   Bekker, Andrey ^b   Krapež, Bryan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Archean; Environmental change; Global tectonics; Oxygen; Paleoproterozoic

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GLOBAL TECTONICS; OXIDATIVE WEATHERING;

CLIMATE CHANGE; OXYGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SEA LEVEL; STRATIGRAPHY; WEATHERING;

TECTONICS;

ARCHEAN; OXYGEN; PROTEROZOIC; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

EID: 26944486178     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.06.062     Document Type: Article

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