Continental crust had fully emerged by the end of the Paleoproterozoic
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Earth has bimodal hypsometry, with emergent, subaerial continents and submerged oceanic crust. The tempo and history of emergence is imprecisely understood. We estimate the oxygen isotope composition of seawater (δ18OSW) via tracer mass balance inversion of sections of hydrothermally altered ocean crust as a proxy for emergent crust. Using data from Sturgeon Lake, Canada (∼2735 Ma) and the Pecos Greenstone Belt, USA (∼1720 Ma), we find δ18OSW decreased from about +3 to +4 ‰ to −0.2 ‰, indicating near-modern levels of emergence by ∼1720 Ma, with minimal emergence at ∼2735 Ma. We employ a steady state δ18OSW model, driven either by continuous or punctuated continental growth, to interpret our findings. Such reconstructions indicate continental growth and emergence were decoupled until the end of the Archean.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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