caa a22 4500 467897360 CHVBK 20180406152807.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11038-006-9090-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11038-006-9090-x 6. Environmental Context [Elektronische Daten] [Hervé Martin, Philippe Claeys, Muriel Gargaud, Daniele Pinti, Franck Selsis] On Earth, the Archaean aeon lasted from 4.0 to 2.5Ga; it corresponds to a relatively stable period. Compared with today, internal Earth heat production was several times greater resulting in high geothermal flux that induced the genesis of rocks such as komatiites and TTG suites, which are no more generated on Earth since 2.5Ga. Similarly, the details of plate tectonic modalities (plate size, plate motion rate, plate thickness, tectonic style, irregular crustal growth, etc...) were different of modern plate tectonics. Both atmosphere and ocean compositions have been progressively modified and the greater heat production favoured the development of hydrothermalism and therefore created niches potentially favourable for the development of some forms of life. Catastrophic events such as giant meteorite falls or world-sized glaciations drastically and suddenly changed the environment of Earth surface, thus being able to strongly affect development of life. Even if specialists still debate about the age of the oldest indubitable fossil trace of life, Archaean can be considered as having been extremely favourable for life development and diversification. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006 Archaean nationallicence continental growth nationallicence atmosphere and ocean evolution nationallicence meteoritic impacts nationallicence glaciations nationallicence young sun nationallicence Martin Hervé Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France aut Claeys Philippe DGLG-WE, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium aut Gargaud Muriel Observatoire Aquitain des Sciences de l'Univers, Université Bordeaux1, Bordeaux, France aut Pinti Daniele GEOTOP-UQAM-McGill, Université du Québec à Montréal, Quebec, Canada aut Selsis Franck Centre de Recherche Astronomique de Lyon and Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Lyon, France aut Earth, Moon, and Planets Kluwer Academic Publishers 98/1-4(2006-06-01), 205-245 0167-9295 98:1-4<205 2006 98 11038 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11038-006-9090-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11038-006-9090-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Martin Hervé Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Claeys Philippe DGLG-WE, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gargaud Muriel Observatoire Aquitain des Sciences de l'Univers, Université Bordeaux1, Bordeaux, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pinti Daniele GEOTOP-UQAM-McGill, Université du Québec à Montréal, Quebec, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Selsis Franck Centre de Recherche Astronomique de Lyon and Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Lyon, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Earth, Moon, and Planets Kluwer Academic Publishers 98/1-4(2006-06-01), 205-245 0167-9295 98:1-4<205 2006 98 11038 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer