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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...
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Elsevier,
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| Publisher Address: | Amsterdam ; Boston : |
| Publication Dates: | 2007. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: |
Developments in Precambrian geology ;
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| Online Access: |
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/bookseries/01662635/15 |
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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 two chapters on early Earth history, ten chapters on the geology of specific cratons, and two chapters on early Earth analogues and the tectonic framework of early Earth. Individual contributions address topics that range from planetary accretion, a review of Earth meteorites, significance and compositi |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xxi, 1307 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 1117-1290) and index. |
| ISBN: |
0080552471 9780080552477 9780444528100 0444528105 9780080552187 0080552188 |
| Index Number: | QE653 |
| CLC: | P534.1 |
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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 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 Austr |