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Evidence for the earliest life on Earth has largely relied on finding signs of structures that may have been created during the Archaean Eon by micro-organisms. Actual fossils don’t turn up until the Proterozoic. The… More
About 530 Ma ago most of the basic body plans of today’s living organisms can be detected as fossils, i.e. preserved hard parts. Yet studies of trace fossils (ichnofossils) – marks left in sediments by… More
Geochemists have gradually built a model of the proportions of the 92 naturally occurring elements that characterise the Solar System. It is based on systematic chemical analysis of meteorites, especially the ‘stony’ ones. One hypothesis… href="https://earthlogs.org/2025/10/23/a-hint-of-proto-earth-that-predates-moon-formation-by-giant-impact/" target="_blank" rel="noopener u...
A symposium hosted by the Royal Society in 1965 aimed at resurrecting Alfred Wegener’s hypothesis of continental drift. During the half century since Wegener made his proposal in 1915, it had been studiously ignored by… More
Much of the Archaean Eon is represented by cratons, which occur at the core of continental parts of tectonic plates. Having low geothermal heat flow they are the most rigid parts of the continental crust. … More
