The Role of the Atmosphere and the Hydrosphere in Crustal Evolution
Abstract
The physical and chemical properties of the Earth's crust have been shaped by the interaction of endogenic and exogenic processes during the course of history. The nature of this interaction between 4.6 and 3.8 Ga B.P. is still uncertain. Since then the nature of erosional processes, of transport, deposition, and the cycling of sea water through the ocean crust, has remained reasonably constant. However, variations in the nature and in the intensity of these processes due to changes in the endogenic cycle, due to biological evolution and probably due to variations in the input of solar energy have left easily discernible marks in the nature of the crust.
- Publication:
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A
- Pub Date:
- May 1981
- DOI:
- 10.1098/rsta.1981.0118
- Bibcode:
- 1981RSPTA.301..375H
- Keywords:
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- Atmospheric Effects;
- Earth Atmosphere;
- Earth Crust;
- Planetary Evolution;
- Sea Water;
- Water Erosion;
- Air Land Interactions;
- Biological Evolution;
- Chemical Reactions;
- Earth Planetary Structure;
- Hydrogen;
- Planetology;
- Solar Terrestrial Interactions;
- Geophysics