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Royal Holloway, University of London

Climate in Deep Time - From the Archean to the Ice Ages

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This lecture follows Earth’s climate over 4.5 billion years, showing how life and geological processes remade the atmosphere and helped keep the planet habitable. It connects early life, oxygenation, glaciations, and present human-driven atmospheric change.

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Intro
Heat Balance
Venus
Dead Earth
Titan
Earth
Raindrops
Back in History
The Archean
The Hadean
Degassing
Origin of Life
Where does life start
Early life
Organ life
Hadean life
Evolutionary diagram
Bacteria
Glacial deposits
Stromatolites
Red Lights
Carbon Sulfur Factory
Modern Biochemistry
Banded On Stones
Zimbabwe
Great Oxidation Event
Multicelled organisms
Complex planets
Disasters
Changing places
The rainbow

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Earth Sciences at Royal Holloway

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