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Mid-Proterozoic day length stalled by tidal resonance

Analysis of changes in the Earth’s rotation in the Precambrian suggests that day length stabilized at 19 h for 1 billion years due to tidal resonance, which may have been linked to a relatively quiescent period of tectonic activity and biological evolution.

Ross N. Mitchell
Uwe Kirscher
ResearchOpen Access12 Jun 2023
Nature Geoscience

Volume: 16, P: 567-569
Metamorphic turnover at 2 Ga related to two-stage assembly of Columbia

Silvia Volante
Uwe Kirscher
ResearchOpen Access18 Mar 2024
Scientific Reports

Volume: 14, P: 1-10
Onset of the Earth’s hydrological cycle four billion years ago or earlier

Oxygen isotopic evidence from Jack Hill zircon crystals suggests that meteoric (fresh) water interacted with crustal magma systems four billion years ago, meaning that the hydrological cycle began at or before this time.

Hamed Gamaleldien
Li-Guang Wu
Xian-Hua Li
Research03 Jun 2024
Nature Geoscience

Volume: 17, P: 560-565
A new Miocene ape and locomotion in the ancestor of great apes and humans

Danuvius guggenmosi moved using extended limb clambering, thus combining adaptations of bipeds and suspensory apes and providing evidence of the evolution of bipedalism and suspension climbing in the common ancestor of great apes and humans.

Madelaine Böhme
Nikolai Spassov
David R. Begun
Research06 Nov 2019
Nature

Volume: 575, P: 489-493
Orbital forcing of ice sheets during snowball Earth

Reconciling the Snowball Earth hypothesis with sedimentological cyclicity has been a persistent challenge. A new cyclostratigraphic climate record for a Cryogenian banded iron formation in Australia provides evidence for orbital forcing of ice sheet advance and retreat cycles during Snowball Earth.

Ross N. Mitchell
Thomas M. Gernon
Xiaofang He
ResearchOpen Access07 Jul 2021
Nature Communications

Volume: 12, P: 1-9
Age constraints for the Trachilos footprints from Crete

Uwe Kirscher
Haytham El Atfy
Madelaine Böhme
ResearchOpen Access11 Oct 2021
Scientific Reports

Volume: 11, P: 1-9
Neogene hyperaridity in Arabia drove the directions of mammalian dispersal between Africa and Eurasia

Transient periods of hyperaridity in northern Arabia during the late Miocene were out of phase with those in North Africa and may have promoted unidirectional dispersal of Eurasian mammals into Africa, according to analyses of a sedimentary sequence in western Iran.

Madelaine Böhme
Nikolai Spassov
Michael Winklhofer
ResearchOpen Access18 May 2021
Communications Earth & Environment

Volume: 2, P: 1-13
First Precambrian palaeomagnetic data from the Mawson Craton (East Antarctica) and tectonic implications

Yebo Liu
Zheng-Xiang Li
Martin Hand
ResearchOpen Access06 Nov 2018
Scientific Reports

Volume: 8, P: 1-12

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