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The earliest Earth was a strange inhospitable world, yet transitions occurred culminating in the evolution of life within the first billion years. The preservation of a sparse and ambiguous rock record has encouraged debate.
Early Earth
August 2006, Vol. 2, No. 4
The earliest Earth was a strange inhospitable world, yet transitions occurred culminating in the evolution of life within the first billion years. The preservation of a sparse and ambiguous rock record has encouraged debate. Recent studies have greatly refined the nature and timing of key events. This issue reviews current knowledge of the age of the Earth, massive meteorite impacts, the atmosphere and hydrosphere, the rock record, and the emergence of life.
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