PROBABLE CHANGES IN THE COMPOSITION OF SEA WATER DURING THE COURSE OF GEOLOGICAL TIME¹

Abstract

SUMMARY The initial geological facts are considered on which the author bases on of the possible variants of the evolutionary scheme of the stratisphere, ocean and atmosphere composition from the Early Precambrian to the Recent. Some general tendencies and causal relationships in the development of these external shells of the earth are traced. The object of this paper is to trace the evolution of the compositions of the sedimentary shell, the world ocean and the atmosphere from the Early Precambrian to the Recent period. Further, an attempt is made to elucidate some general tendencies in the development of these outer shells of the earth, in the changes of magmatic rock composition and in the history of tectonic movements and to establish causal relationships between them. The solution suggested is one of the possible variants, as the data used and the assumptions that have been made are not uniformly reliable for the different stages of geological history.