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The Earth : its birth and growth /
An accessible exploration of Earth's evolution and the underlying physical and chemical principles, for students, professionals and general readers.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Japonés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; The Earth: Its Birth and Growth; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface to the second edition; Preface to the first edition; Preface to the English edition; 1: Heat from within: energy supporting the dynamic Earth; THE ENERGY HIDDEN IN ROCKS; THE AMOUNT OF RADIOACTIVE ELEMENTS IN ROCKS; RADIOACTIVE ELEMENTS IN THE WHOLE EARTH; HEAT GENERATION IN THE EARTH'S INTERIOR; COMPARISON WITH SOLAR ENERGY; NOTES; 2: At the time of the Earth's birth; NUCLEOSYNTHESIS IN THE GALAXY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM; FROM A GASEOUS NEBULA TO PLANETESIMALS; FROM PLANETESIMALS TO PLANETS.
- CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF THE EARTHAGE OF THE EARTH; HOLMES, HOUTERMANS, AND PATTERSON; NOTES; 3: Formation of the layered structure of the Earth; DISTINCTIVE LAYERED STRUCTURE; HOMOGENEOUS AND HETEROGENEOUS ACCRETION HYPOTHESIS; CHEMICAL DIFFERENTIATION AND PLANETARY ACCRETION; IRON CORE AND SILICATE MANTLE SEPARATION; HAFNIUM-TUNGSTEN CHRONOMETER: A GEOLOGICAL SANDGLASS; FORMATION OF THE INNER CORE; THE EARTH'S CORE AND THE GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; MANTLE, CRUST, AND ATMOSPHERE; NOTES; 4: Time scale of the Earth's evolution; MEASURING THOUSANDS OF MILLIONS OF YEARS.
- GEOLOGICAL CLOCK USING NUCLEAR DISINTEGRATIONCORROBORATION OF THE GEOLOGICAL CLOCK; POTASSIUM-ARGON METHOD; REVERSALS OF THE EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD; AGE OF SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SHORT-LIVED ISOTOPE: A GEOLOGICAL SANDGLASS; CAI: THE OLDEST MINERAL IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM; NOTES; 5: Plate tectonics revolution; PALEOMAGNETISM AND APPARENT POLAR WANDER; CONTINENTAL DRIFT HYPOTHESIS; SEAFLOOR SPREADING THEORY; PLATE TECTONICS THEORY; WHAT DRIVES PLATES?; NOTES; 6: Evolution of the mantle; MANTLE EVOLUTION AND CRUSTAL GROWTH; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE AS A MARKER FOR MANTLE EVOLUTION; WHY AND HOW MANTLE MELTS.
- OCEANIC CRUST AND CONTINENTAL CRUSTINTERNAL STRUCTURE OF THE MANTLE; CHEMICAL STRATIFICATION IN THE MANTLE?; STRUCTURE OF MANTLE CONVECTION; NOTES; 7: Origin of the atmosphere and oceans; SECONDARY ORIGIN OF THE ATMOSPHERE; DEGASSING FROM THE EARTH; IS THE DEGASSING CONTINUOUS?; USING THE ARGON ISOTOPIC RATIO; FORMATION OF THE ATMOSPHERE OCCURRED SUDDENLY; XENON
- 129: A MORE PRECISE CHRONOMETER FOR MANTLE DEGASSING; RARE GASES IN MANTLE MATERIALS; THE ORIGIN OF LIFE AND THE ATMOSPHERE; THE MYSTERY OF THE COMPOSITION OF THE EARLY ATMOSPHERE; BANDED IRON FORMATIONS AND PRODUCTION OF OXYGEN.
- APPEARANCE OF OXYGEN AND CARBON ISOTOPESSULFUR ISOTOPES, A PHOTOSYNTHESIS MARKER?; NOTES; 8: Isotopes as DNA of nature; NON-RADIOGENIC STABLE ISOTOPES; STABLE ISOTOPES AS COSMIC DNA; OXYGEN ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION AND ITS VARIABILITY; PALEOTEMPERATURE AND CLIMATE; MASS-INDEPENDENT ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; MASS-INDEPENDENT ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION OF MERCURY; STARDUST; NOTES; 9: The Earth's magnetism; MAGNETIC MINERALS IN ROCKS: SMALLER IS BETTER; THERMO-REMANENT MAGNETIZATION CAN PERSIST FOREVER; GENERATION OF THE GEOMAGNETIC FIELD BY GEODYNAMO.