Earth’s early O2 cycle suppressed by primitive continents

Erosion of Archean continents: The Sm-Nd and Lu-Hf isotopic record of Barberton sedimentary rocks

(2017) M. Garçon et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Two-step rise of atmospheric oxygen linked to the growth of continents

(2016) Cin-Ty A. Lee et al.   Nature Geoscience

Archean upper crust transition from mafic to felsic marks the onset of plate tectonics

(2016) M. Tang et al.   SCIENCE

Oxidative elemental cycling under the low O2 Eoarchean atmosphere

(2016) Robert Frei et al.   Scientific Reports

Emergence of modern continental crust about 3 billion years ago

(2015) Bruno Dhuime et al.   Nature Geoscience

The evolving nature of terrestrial crust from the Hadean, through the Archaean, into the Proterozoic

(2015) Balz S. Kamber   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

The rise of oxygen in Earth’s early ocean and atmosphere

(2014) Timothy W. Lyons et al.   NATURE

Evidence for oxygenic photosynthesis half a billion years before the Great Oxidation Event

(2014) Noah J. Planavsky et al.   Nature Geoscience

What caused the rise of atmospheric O2?

(2013) James F. Kasting   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Atmospheric oxygenation three billion years ago

(2013) Sean A. Crowe et al.   NATURE

Hafnium isotope evidence for a transition in the dynamics of continental growth 3.2 Gyr ago

(2012) T. Næraa et al.   NATURE

The oxidation state of Fe in MORB glasses and the oxygen fugacity of the upper mantle

(2011) Elizabeth Cottrell et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Iron isotope composition of some Archean and Proterozoic iron formations

(2011) Noah Planavsky et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Archean mafic–ultramafic volcanic landmasses and their effect on ocean–atmosphere chemistry

(2010) Balz S. Kamber   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

The generation and evolution of the continental crust

(2010) C.J. Hawkesworth et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Pervasive oxygenation along late Archaean ocean margins

(2010) Brian Kendall et al.   Nature Geoscience

Oceanic nickel depletion and a methanogen famine before the Great Oxidation Event

(2009) Kurt O. Konhauser et al.   NATURE

Fluctuations in Precambrian atmospheric oxygenation recorded by chromium isotopes

(2009) Robert Frei et al.   NATURE

A case for late-Archaean continental emergence from thermal evolution models and hypsometry

(2008) Nicolas Flament et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS