Lower and middle Riphean lithologic complexes of the world

Chemical Constitution of the Earth's Crust and Geochemical Balance of the Major Elements

“…On the basis of these new data, more modern versions of the maps [95,92] were compiled, from which Ronov again measured the volumes of the most important types of sedimentary and volcanic associations individually for cratonic, geosynclinal and, for the first time, orogenic regions. Maps of the lithologic associations of the Late Proterozoic (Riphean and Vendian) were also compiled for the first time, and the volumes of deposits measured from them [93,95,117]. Comparison of the old and new volume measurements shows that, in estimating the total volume of Phanerozoic rocks of the continents, the error was small, only ±6%.…”

Stromatolites and earth—sun—moon dynamics

“…The intervening several billions of years of history have left few records of important Earth--Sun--Moon relationships. These, for the most part, of the ancient crust (Kr6ner, 1981;Windley, 1984); (2)geochemical investigations on the chemical evolution of the Earth (W~/nke and Dreibus, 1982;Veizer et al, 1982), changes in sedimentary rocks through time (Ronov et al, 1980), evolution of the atmosphere (Walker, 1977) and hydrosphere (Holland, 1984); and (3) paleobiological studies on the evolving biosphere of the early Earth and its interactions with the evolving Earth (Cloud, 1976;Awramik, 1982). As illuminating as the rock record may be for terrestrial Earth history, the little information detected reflecting Earth--Sun--Moon relationships have been primarily based on a very few difficult to interpret paleontological examples (e.g., Wells, 1963;Scrutton, 1964;Pannella et al, 1968;Jones, 1981).…”