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New open access paper about mass extinctions. Pankhurst, M.J., Stevenson, C.J. and Coldwell, B.C., 2021. Meteorites that produce K-feldspar-rich ejecta blankets correspond to mass extinctions. Journal of the Geological Society. 179, jgs2021-055, 1 December 2021 Yours,

A great lecture and lengthy lecture about Archean paleoenvironments, tectonics, geology, and some paleontology is: Archean Surface Conditions Ideas in Science By Christoph Heubeck - RED18 Published on Mar 12, 2018 http://astrobiovideo.com/en/video/175 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNEkQ8KV-aQ It begins: "Here is the the principal take-home take-home message. All right. We know very little about the early Earth and and therefore it's such an interesting thing to talk about. We do know a bit right. We know just enough to talk endlessly about it but we do not know enough to supply you with firm numbers that would put any issue too firmly to arrest." Yours, Paul H.

Large meteorite impacts drove plate-tectonic processes on the early Earth, PhysOrg, September 26, 2017 https://phys.org/news/2017-09-large-meteorite-impacts-drove-plate-tectonic.html Did meteorites create the Earth’s tectonic plates? Cosmos, September 26, 2017 https://cosmosmagazine.com/geoscience/did-meteorites-create-the-earth-s-tectonic-plates The paper is: O’Neill, C., Marchi, S., Zhang, S., and Bottke, W., 2017. Impact-driven subduction on the Hadean Earth Nature Geoscience (2017) doi:10.1038/ngeo3029 Received 12 December 2016 Accepted 22 August 2017 Published online 25 September 2017 http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ngeo3029.html?foxtrotcallback=true Another article is: Australian rocks suggest early Earth may not have had plate tectonics, Cosmos, September 28, 2017 https://cosmosmagazine.com/geoscience/tremors-shake-tectonic-plate-theory Plate Tectonics May Have Begun a Billion Years After Earth's Birth, Live Science, September 21, 2017 https://www.livescience.com/60478-plate-tectonics-gets-new-age.html The paper is: Johnson, T.E., Brown, M., Gardiner, N.J., Kirkland, C.L. and Smithies, R.H., 2017. Earth’s first stable continents did not form by subduction. Nature, 543(7644), pp.239-242. https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v543/n7644/abs/nature21383.html Yours, Paul H.