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Earth's oldest rocks /
Earths Oldest Rocks provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of early Earth, from planetary accretion through to development of protocratons with depleted lithospheric keels by c. 3.2 Ga, in a series of papers written by over 50 of the world's leading experts. The book is divided into t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Boston :
Elsevier,
2007.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Developments in Precambrian geology ;
15. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Earth's Oldest Rocks
- Series: Developments in Precambrian Geology
- Publisher: Elsevier
- Series Editor: Kent Condie
- Edited by: Martin J. Van Kranendonk, R. Hugh Smithies, and Vickie Bennett
- Dedication
- Preface
- 1. Aims, scope and outline of the book: Martin J. Van Kranendonk, R. Hugh Smithies, and Vickie Bennett
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Planetary Accretion and the Hadean to Eoarchaean Earth
- Building the Foundation
- Chapter 3: Eoarchean Gneiss Complexes
- Chapter 4: The Paleoarchean Pilbara Craton, Western Australia
- Chapter 5: The Paleoarchean Kaapvaal Craton, Southern Africa
- Chapter 6: Paleoarchean Gneiss Terranes
- Chapter 7: Life on Early Earth
- Chapter 8: Tectonics on Early Earth.
- Overview and history of investigation of early earth rocks / Brian Windley
- The distribution of Paleoarchean crust / Kent Condie
- The formation of the earth and moon / Stuart Ross Taylor
- Early solar system materials, processes, and chronology / Alex W.R. Bevan
- Dynamics of the Hadean and Archean mantle / Geoffrey F. Davies
- The enigma of the terrestrial protocrust : evidence for its former existence and the importance of its complete disappearance / Balz S. Kamber
- The oldest terrestrial mineral record : a review of 4400 to 4000 Ma detrital zircons from Jack Hills, Western Australia / Aaron J. Cavosie, John W. Valley and Simon A. Wilde
- Evidence of pre-3100 Ma crust in the Youanmi and South West terranes, and Eastern Goldfields superterrane, of the Yilgarn Craton / Stephen Wyche
- The early Archean Acasta gneiss complex : geological, geochronological and isotopic studies and implications for early crustal evolution / Tsuyoshi Iizuka, Tsuyoshi Komiya and Shigenori Maruyama
- Ancient Antarctica : the Archean of the East Antarctic shield / Simon L. Harley and Nigel M. Kelly
- The Itsaq gneiss complex of southern West Greenland and the construction of Eoarchean crust at convergent plate boundaries / Allen P. Nutman [and others]
- The geology of the 3.8 Ga Nuvvuagittuq (Porpoise Cove) greenstone belt, northeastern Superior Province, Canada / Jonathan O'Neil [and others]
- Eoarchean rocks and zircons in the North China Craton / Dunyi Y. Liu [and others]
- The Narryer terrane, Western Australia : a review / Simon A. Wilde and Catherine Spaggiari
- Paleoarchean development of a continental nucleus : the East Pilbara terrane of the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia / Martin J. Van Kranendonk [and others]
- The oldest well-preserved felsic volcanic rocks on earth : geochemical clues to the early evolution of the Pilbara Supergroup and implications for the growth of a Paleoarchean protocontinent / R. Hugh Smithies, David C. Champion and Martin J. Van Kranendonk
- Geochemistry of Paleoarchean granites of the East Pilbara terrane, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia : implications for early Archean crustal growth / David C. Champion and R. Hugh Smithies
- Palaeoarchaean mineral deposits of the Pilbara Craton : genesis, tectonic environment and comparisons with younger deposits / David L. Huston [and others]
- An overview of the pre-Mesoarchean rocks of the Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa / Marc Poujol
- The ancient gneiss complex of Swaziland and environs : record of early Archean crustal evolution in southern Africa / Alfred Kr�oner
- An overview of the geology of the Barberton greenstone belt and vicinity : implications for early crustal development / Donald R. Lowe and Gary R. Byerly
- Volcanology of the Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa : inflation and evolution of flow fields / Jesse C. Dann and Timothy L. Grove
- Silicified basalts, bedded cherts and other sea floor alteration phenomena of the 3.4 Ga Nondweni greenstone belt, South Africa / Axel Hoffman and Allan H. Wilson
- TTG plutons of the Barberton granitoid-greenstone terrain, South Africa / Jean-Fran�cois Moyen [and others]
- Metamorphism in the Barberton granite greenstone terrain : a record of Paleoarchean accretion / Gary Stevens and Jean-Fran�cois Moyen
- Tectono-metamorphic controls on Archaean gold mineralization in the Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa : an example from the New Consort gold mine / Annika Dziggel [and others]
- Paleoarchean gneisses in the Minnesota River Valley and northern Michigan, USA / Marion E. Bickford [and others]
- The Assean Lake Complex : ancient crust at the northwestern margin of the Superior Craton, Manitoba, Canada / Christian O. B�ohm, Russell P. Hartlaub and Larry M. Heaman
- Oldest rocks of the Wyoming Craton / Kevin R. Chamberlain and Paul A. Mueller
- The oldest rock assemblages of the Siberian Craton / Oleg M. Rosen and O.M. Turkina
- Searching for earth's earliest life in southern West Greenland : history, current status, and future prospects / Martin J. Whitehouse and Christopher M. Fedo
- A review of the evidence for putative Paleoarchean life in the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia / Martin J. Van Kranendonk
- Stable carbon and sulphur isotope geochemistry of the ca. 3490 Ma Dresser Formation hydrothermal deposit, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia / Yuichiro Ueno
- Organic geochemistry of Archean carbonaceous cherts from the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia / Craig P. Marshall
- Sulphur on the early earth / Steven J. Mojzsis
- The marine carbonate and chert isotope records and their implications for tectonics, life and climate on the early earth / Graham A. Shields
- Venus : a thin-lithosphere analog for early earth? / Vickie L. Hansen
- The earliest subcontinental lithospheric mantle / W.L. Griffin and Suzanne Y. O'Reilly
- Ancient to modern earth : the role of mantle plumes in the making of continental crust / Franco Pirajno
- Eo- to Mesoarchean terranes of the Superior Province and their tectonic context / John A. Percival
- Early Archean asteroid impacts on earth : stratigraphic and isotopic age correlations and possible geodynamic consequences / Andrew Glikson
- Tectonics of early earth / Martin J. Van Kranendonk.