摘要：Brazil is the largest country in South America and contains the majority of the exposed Archean and Paleoproterozoic crust on the continent. As such, Brazil provides a natural laboratory for studies of the ancient Earth. In this Special Issue, contributions reflect the dynamic and protracted growth and reworking of former continents during a time frame of over a billion years, and depict how changes across the evolution of plate tectonics may have influenced the evolution of the interlinked crust-ocean-atmospheric Earth cycles over this period.
