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Our choice from the recent literature

Our choice from the recent literature research highlights Archaean rocks could have instead formed sinking of water masses in the North s udden warming source at mid-ocean ridges, if the ridges were much Atlantic is a key component of the region’s Geophys. Res. Lett. doi:10.1029/2010GL045756 hotter than those observed on Earth today. carbon sink. (in the press) He argues that intense heat from the mid- ocean ridge would promote the formation Big bang for Mars of extremely thick and dense oceanic crust, Icarus doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2010.10.023 leaving the underlying lithosphere unusually (in the press) buoyant. As the dense oceanic rocks began to subduct and fall into the mantle, pockets of less-dense melt would escape from the oceanic crust, rising up through the already buoyant lithosphere to create the continents. The formation of continents in the Archaean was therefore coupled to an unusually buoyant lithosphere, a feature not observed on Earth today. s ubmerged carbon During sudden stratospheric warming J. Geophys. Res. doi:10.1029/2010JC006446 events, the temperature of the atmosphere (in the press) between about 10 and 50 km — the stratosphere — rises by several tens of The formation of intermediate water masses The relatively tiny moons that orbit Mars — Kelvins. Numerical simulations suggest in the North http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Nature Geoscience Springer Journals

Our choice from the recent literature

Nature Geoscience , Volume 4 (1) – Jan 1, 2011
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Our choice from the recent literature

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research highlights Archaean rocks could have instead formed sinking of water masses in the North s udden warming source at mid-ocean ridges, if the ridges were much Atlantic is a key component of the region’s Geophys. Res. Lett. doi:10.1029/2010GL045756 hotter than those observed on Earth today. carbon sink. (in the press) He argues that intense heat from the mid- ocean ridge would promote the formation Big bang for Mars of extremely thick and dense oceanic crust, Icarus...
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Springer Journals
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Copyright © Springer Nature Limited 2011
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Earth Sciences; Earth Sciences, general; Geology; Geochemistry; Geophysics/Geodesy; Earth System Sciences
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1752-0894
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1752-0908
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10.1038/ngeo1058
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research highlights Archaean rocks could have instead formed sinking of water masses in the North s udden warming source at mid-ocean ridges, if the ridges were much Atlantic is a key component of the region’s Geophys. Res. Lett. doi:10.1029/2010GL045756 hotter than those observed on Earth today. carbon sink. (in the press) He argues that intense heat from the mid- ocean ridge would promote the formation Big bang for Mars of extremely thick and dense oceanic crust, Icarus doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2010.10.023 leaving the underlying lithosphere unusually (in the press) buoyant. As the dense oceanic rocks began to subduct and fall into the mantle, pockets of less-dense melt would escape from the oceanic crust, rising up through the already buoyant lithosphere to create the continents. The formation of continents in the Archaean was therefore coupled to an unusually buoyant lithosphere, a feature not observed on Earth today. s ubmerged carbon During sudden stratospheric warming J. Geophys. Res. doi:10.1029/2010JC006446 events, the temperature of the atmosphere (in the press) between about 10 and 50 km — the stratosphere — rises by several tens of The formation of intermediate water masses The relatively tiny moons that orbit Mars — Kelvins. Numerical simulations suggest in the North

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