ReviewLife (Basel, Switzerland)2021
Was There Land on the Early Earth?
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- Water Versus Land on Temperate Rocky Planets.Space science reviews · 2026Review
- Exo-Geoscience Perspectives Beyond Habitability.Space science reviews · 2026Review
- Rocky Planets as Heat Engines.Space science reviews · 2026Review
- Interstep compatibility of a model for the prebiotic synthesis of RNA consistent with Hadean natural history.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- The importance of continents, oceans and plate tectonics for the evolution of complex life: implications for finding extraterrestrial civilizations.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Natural soda lakes provide compatible conditions for RNA and membrane function that could have enabled the origin of life.PNAS nexus · 2024Article
- Thermodynamics of continental deformation.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Volcanic Island lightning prebiotic chemistry and the origin of life in the early Hadean eon.Nature communications · 2023Article
- The combined Hf and Nd isotope evolution of the depleted mantle requires Hadean continental formation.Science advances · 2023Article
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- Potassium at the Origins of Life: Did Biology Emerge from Biotite in Micaceous Clay?Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
The presence of exposed land on the early Earth is a prerequisite for a certain type of prebiotic chemical evolution in which the oscillating activity of water, driven by short-term, day-night, and seasonal cycles, facilitates the synthesis of proto-biopolymers. Exposed land is, however, not guaranteed to exist on the early Earth, which is likely to have been drastically different from the modern Earth. This mini-review attempts to provide an up-to-date account on the possibility of exposed land on the early Earth by integrating recent geological and geophysical findings. Owing to the competing effects of the growing ocean and continents in the Hadean, a substantial expanse of the Earth's surface (∼20% or more) could have been covered by exposed continents in the mid-Hadean. In contrast, exposed land may have been limited to isolated ocean islands in the late Hadean and early Archean. The importance of exposed land during the origins of life remains an open question.
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