Claude Allegre: From stone to star. A view of modern geology.
Harvard UP 1992.

6675 Claude Allegre/Stephen Schneider: The evolution of the Earth.
Scientific American October 1994, 44-51.

14807 Alexander Braun/Gabriele Marquardt: Die bewegte Geschichte des
Nordatlantiks. Spektrum 2001/6, 50-59.

6783 Ian Dalziel: Die Erde vor Panga''a. Spektrum 1995/3, 64-71.
Eine halbe Jahrmilliarde, bevor am Ende des Erdaltertums der Superkontinent
Panga''a entstand, waren die irdischen Landmassen schon einmal in einem
einzigen Kontinent vereinigt. Nordamerika, das damals an die Antarktis grenzte,
vollfu''hrte in der Folgezeit eine komplizierte Odyssee, bei der es
Su''damerika umrundete und schlies''lich an Nordafrika andockte.

13170 Paul Hoffmann/Daniel Schrag: Als die Erde ein Eisklumpen war.
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Paul Hoffman a.o.: [On the "snowball Earth" hypothesis.]
Science 28 August 1992, 1342-...

James Kasting: Earth's early atmosphere. Science 259 (1993), 920-926.

12993 Richard Kerr: An appealing snowball Earth that's still hard to swallow.
Science 10 March 2000, 1734-1736. The claim that Earth has frozen over from
pole to pole for millions of years has intrigued many scientists but as
yet convinced few. But in addition to tropical glaciation and strange iron
deposits, the snowball Earth scenario solves the paradox of the juxtaposition
of the low-latitude glacial deposits and hundreds of meters of carbonate rock.

14201 Richard Kerr: An orbital confluence leaves its mark.
Science 13 April 2001, 191.

A. Kro''ner/P. Layer: Crust formation and plate motion in the early archean.
Science 256 (1992), 1405-1411.

P. Layer/C. Hall/Derek York: The derivation of Ar{40}/Ar{39} age spectra of
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Geophysical Research Letters 14 (1987), 757-760.

P. Layer/A. Kro''ner/M. McWilliams/Derek York: Elements of the archean thermal
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5604 Rolf Haugaard Nielsen: Chill warnings from Greenland.
New Scientist 28 August 1993, 28-33. Ice cores are unique archives of past
climate and atmospheric chemistry. The gases, acids adn dust present everywhere
in the atmosphere are also contained in the snow falling on the ise sheets of
Greenland and Antarctica. There, the chemical fingerprint of each year is
preserved unchanged as the annual layers move gradually downward in the
icecap. Even more importantly, the stable isotopic composition of the ice
depends on the air temperature at the time when the snow was formed and
deposited, so glaciologists can follow temperature changes back in time.
In this way one has now discovered that sudden swings in the world's climate
should have been the rule over many thousands of years.

Linda Sohl/Nicholas Christie-Blick/Dennis Kent: [On the Neoproterozoic
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5487 Derek York: Die Fru''hzeit der Erde. Spektrum 1993/3, 76-83.
Der Zerfall radioaktiver Isotope ermo''glicht Altersbestimmungen u''ber
geologische Zeitra''ume. Mit zunehmend feineren Methoden entlocken
Geowissenschaftler der Erde Informationen u''ber fru''heste Ereignisse der
geologischen Entwicklungsgeschichte. Besonders gut anwendbar ist die
Uran-Blei-Methode, bei welcher der Zerfall von Uran-Isotopen zu Blei
ausgenutzt wird. Der Acasta-Gneis, eine Formation metamorphen Gesteins
im Norden Kanadas, ist mit nahezu 4 Milliarden Jahren das a''lteste
bekannte Stu''ck intakter Erdkruste.

Derek York: Cooling histories from Ar{40}/Ar{39} age spectra: Implications
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