Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP170100715
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Engineering planetary habitability: Earth’s first billion years. This project aims to establish the critical physical-chemical factors in the early surface environment and tectonic regime that supported early life and continuing habitability. Life was established on Earth within the first billion years of its 4.56-billion-year history. This project’s integrated geological and geochemical study will investigate this period’s rare sedimentary and volcanic record, including the oldest fossiliferous sequences discovered recently, to show how the early Earth’s chemistry supported life and evolution. The project expects to enhance understanding of why life prospers on some habitable zone planets but not on others.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 04-2017
End Date: 12-2021
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $270,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Geology | Stratigraphy (incl. Biostratigraphy and Sequence Stratigraphy) | Geology not elsewhere classified | Isotope Geochemistry
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Cultural Understanding not elsewhere classified | Expanding Knowledge in the Environmental Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Earth Sciences |
