太古宙氧气绿洲：地球早期古地理重塑的重要线索

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Archean Eon (from 4.03 to 2.42Ga) is a major period of crust formation and biosphere establishment，characterized by a highly reducing atmosphere. Substantial amounts of molecular oxygen might have accumulated locally in protected shallow-water environments that favored cyanobacterial productivity and were sufficiently isolated;and this type of protected shallow-water environments results in an “Archean oxygen oases”even though under an anoxic atmosphere. Thus，identification and research of an Archean oxygen oasis become an important clue for the further understanding of the rise of atmospheric oxygen concentration and the origin of oxygenic photosynthesis，which is a hot point of the Precambrian sedimentology. Interestingly and fascinatingly，studies and interpretations on the Archean marine limestones (ca. 2.8Ga), the primary haematite formed in an oxygenated sea (ca. 3.46Ga) and the stromatolite reef (ca. 3.46Ga), become some typically successful examples for the research of the Archean oxygen oases. Tracing these fruitful and starting researches will be propitious to further understanding both the sophisticated evolutionary process of surface environment and its palaeogeographical reconstruction in the early Earth，and are meaningful to broaden the studying domain of sedimentology and palaeogeography.

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	Mei Mingxiang
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Key words： Archean oxygen oases palaeogeography surface environment

Received: 29 May 2015 Published: 01 December 2015

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About author: Mei Mingxiang，born in 1965， graduated from China University of Geosciences in 1993，and obtained his Ph. D. degree. Now he is a professor at School of Earth Sciences and Resources，China University of Geosciences (Beijing), and is engaged in sedimentology and stratigraphy. E-mail：meimingxiang@263.net

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Mei Mingxiang,Meng Qingfen. Archean oxygen oases: An important clue of palaeogeographical reconstruction in the early Earth[J]. JOPC, 2015, 17(6): 719-734.

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