New research has dramatically reshaped our understanding of Earth’s early geological history, overturning traditional beliefs ...

New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

A new study has revealed details about the composition of Earth's atmosphere during the Archean eon, which lasted from around 4 billion years ago to 2.4 billion years ago.

Plate Tectonics in the Archean: Observation versus Interpretation. Science China Press. Journal Science China Earth Sciences DOI 10.1007/s11430-023-1210-5 ...

A unique rock formation in China holds clues that tectonic plates subducted, or went underneath other plates, during the Archean eon (4 billion to 2.5 billion years ago), just as they do nowadays ...

In the Archean eon, a time far closer to the formation of our Solar System than to today, basalt oozed over what would later be Western Australia in much the same way it does in Iceland and Hawaii ...

Pink Skies of the Archean. There's no question that Earth was a very different place during the Archean eon, between 4 and 2.5 billion years ago.

By the end of the Archean, as solar radiation grew, only up to 300 times preindustrial CO 2 would have been needed. But as with the ammonia hypothesis, there are hitches.