Category Archives: geochemistry

Has Earth’s mantle always worked like it does today?

This seems to be the latest round in the eternal battle between the geophysics data which strongly suggests whole mantle convection (and for quite some time, if ideas about the origin of all the weird junk at the core-mantle boundary … Continue reading

Categories: deep time, geochemistry, geology, geophysics, past worlds

Oxygenation of Earth’s atmosphere may not have required a trigger event after all

In Earth history, there have been 3 abrupt jumps in atmospheric oxygen. A evolutionary or tectonic trigger is usually invoked, but a new study just published in Science suggests all you need is gradual oxidation of earth’s surface plus feedbacks … Continue reading

Categories: Archean, climate science, deep time, geochemistry, geology, Palaeozoic, past worlds, Proterozoic, society

Anne’s picks of the December literature

Recently published hydrogeology and geomorphology papers that make my heart sing
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Categories: by Anne, climate science, geochemistry, geomorphology, hydrology, paper reviews, planets

9 isotopes fractionating

On the 9th day of Christmas my true love sent to me…
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Categories: geochemistry, geology, planets

Lots of oxygen on the Archean Earth?

New evidence for the early evolution of photosynthesis: was the early Earth really as oxygen-free as we think it was?
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Categories: Archean, geochemistry, geology, paper reviews, past worlds, rocks & minerals