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Boring Billion (Geological periods 🌍)

The Boring Billion, otherwise known as the Mid-Proterozoic and Earth's Middle Ages, is an informal geological time period between 1.8 and 0.8 billion years ago during the middle Proterozoic eon spanning from the Statherian to the Tonian periods, characterized by more or less tectonic stability, climatic stasis and slo...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boring_Billion

#BoringBillion #Proterozoic #Astrobiology #1995InScience #PlateTectonics #GeologicalPeriods

Mid-Proterozoic Expansion Of Passive Margins And Reduction In Volcanic Outgassing Supported Marine Oxygenation And Eukaryogenesis
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2025.119683 <-- shared paper
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https://zenodo.org/records/17353904 <-- supplementary data
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#proterozoic #platetectonics #tectonics #deepcarboncycle #eukaryogenesis #evolutionoflife #life #evolution #geology #geologichistory #pangea #supercontinent #diversification #volcanic #offgassing #marine #thermodynamics #model #modeling #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #nuna #subduction #structuralgeology #CO2 #carbondioxide #climate #eukaryotic #BoringBillion #rodinia #oceanbasins #marinechemistry #outgassing #global #earth

Rätsel der „Boring Billion“ gelöst? Zerfall eines Superkontinents könnte die Eukaryoten-Evolution entscheidend vorangebracht haben. #Erdgeschichte #Evolution #Geologie #Tektonik #Superkontinent #BoringBillion
https://www.scinexx.de/news/biowissen/raetsel-der-boring-billion-geloest/

Boring Billion (Geological periods 🌍)

The Boring Billion, otherwise known as the Mid Proterozoic and Earth's Middle Ages, is an informal geological time period between 1.8 and 0.8 billion years ago during the middle Proterozoic eon spanning from the Statherian to the Tonian periods, characterized by more or less tectonic stability, climatic stasis and slo...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boring_Billion

#BoringBillion #Proterozoic #Astrobiology #1995InScience #PlateTectonics #GeologicalPeriods

#TIL there was a billion years of #history on this planet that just wasn't terribly interesting. Thankfully we live in a much more interesting span of a billion years #boringbillion #time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boring_Billion

#DidYouKnow: The #BoringBillion, otherwise known as the Mid Proterozoic and Earth's Middle Ages, is the time period between 1.8 and 0.8 billion years ago (Ga) spanning the middle Proterozoic eon.

The period is believed to mark a delay in the evolution of complex life, primarily due to low levels of oxygen in the atmosphere.

https://knowledgezone.co.in/kbits/64d9cad78af12defcf0d553e

Earth's Billion-Year Balancing Act
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https://phys.org/news/2024-02-earth-billion-year.html <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1130/GSATG423C.1 <-- shared paper
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#geology #geologichistory #BoringBillion #BalancedBillion #earth #earthhistory #life #lifeonearth #atmosphere #oxygenation #structuralgeology #tectonics #complexlife #eukaryote #platetectonics #crust #mantle #core

#DidYouKnow: The #BoringBillion, otherwise known as the Mid Proterozoic and Earth's Middle Ages, is the time period between 1.8 and 0.8 billion years ago (Ga) spanning the middle Proterozoic eon.

The period is believed to mark a delay in the evolution of complex life, primarily due to low levels of oxygen in the atmosphere.

https://knowledgezone.co.in/kbits/64d9cad78af12defcf0d553e

Warum wir für kürzere Arbeitszeiten kämpfen sollten, statt auf den Mond zu hoffen.

https://jungle.world/artikel/2023/28/kurze-tage-lange-weile

#Geowissenschaften #boringbillion #geology #evolution

the Boring Billion
a billion years of Earth
known mostly from
boring deep holes
in rocks quite old
trust me
it's exciting
not nearly so boring
as you've been told

see these
vase-shaped amoebae
their diversity doth fluctuate
to some essential conditions
it must relate

these several shifting
isotope ratios,
oh what tales they tell

and here or there
may be the origin
of Eukaryotes
or multicellular life
or even fungi

#life
#BoringBillion
#DeepTime
#fungi
#poetry

We had another packed class of Earth and Environmental Science students this week.

The GEOS1211 group got a recap of the 'scientific method' and how hypotheses are developed, tested, and sometimes rejected.

Indrani Mukherjee gives an example of the 'boring billion's years of Earth history, and how she found it wasn't so boring after all.

And to help understand how science really works, we played 'the scientific method is crap' TEDx talk by Teman Cooke. If you ever wondered about science in practice, here's the link
https://youtu.be/j12BBcKSgEQ

#science #research #HigherEd #earthscience #academia #environmentalscience #TEDx #boringbillion #UNSW #scientificmethod