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Tracing the formation and differentiation of the Earth by non-traditional stable isotopes

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The Earth has grown from chaotically mixed small dusts and gases to its present highly differentiated layered structure over the past 4.567 billion years. This differentiation has led to the formation of the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, crust, mantle, and core. The timing and mechanism for the formation and evolution of these different layers are still subjects of intense debate. This review brings together recent advances in using non-traditional stable isotopes to constrain major events and processes leading to the formation and differentiation of the Earth, including the Moon-forming giant impact, crust-mantle interactions, evolution of life, the rise of atmospheric oxygen, extreme paleoclimate changes, and cooling rate of magmas.

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Acknowledgements

We thank Prof. Yongfei Zheng for the invitation to write this manuscript. Fruitful discussion with Prof. James Farquhar and comments from Drs. **nyang Chen, Yongsheng He, Yan Hu and Hengci Tian have significantly improved the manuscript. Three anonymous reviewers are acknowledged for their insightful reviews. This study was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41729001), the National Science Foundation (Grant No. EAR-1747706), the European Research Council under the H2020 framework program/ERC grant agreement (Grant No. #637503-Pristine), the UnivEarthS Labex program at Sorbonne Paris Cité (Grant Nos. #ANR-10-LABX-0023 and #ANR-11-IDEX-0005-02), and the ANR through a chaire d’excellence Sorbonne Paris Cité.

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  1. Isotope Laboratory, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195-1310, USA

    Fangzhen Teng

  2. State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, China University of Geosciences, Bei**g, 100083, China

    Shuijiong Wang

  3. Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Université de Paris, Paris, 75238, France

    Frédéric Moynier

  4. Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, 75231, France

    Frédéric Moynier

  5. State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074, China

    Frédéric Moynier

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Teng, F., Wang, S. & Moynier, F. Tracing the formation and differentiation of the Earth by non-traditional stable isotopes. Sci. China Earth Sci. 62, 1702–1715 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11430-019-9520-6

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