Earth's oldest rocks / / edited by Martin J. Van Kranendonk, Vickie C. Bennett, J. Elis Hoffmann

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam, Netherlands : , : Elsevier, , [2019]; ©2019
• Edizione: Second edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1,114 pages)
• Disciplina: 551.71
• Soggetto topico: Geology, Stratigraphic - Precambrian; Geodynamics
• Persona (resp. second.): Van KranendonkMartin J.; BennettVickie C.; HoffmannJ. Elis
• Note generali: Includes indexes.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Getting started. Early solar system materials, processes, and chronology / Yuri Amelin -- Origin of the Earth and the late heavy bombardment / Marc Norman -- Early Earth atmosphere and oceans / James Kasting -- Overviews of early Earth processes. Modelling early Earth tectonics : the case for stagnant lid behaviour in early Earth / Craig O'Neill -- The earliest subcontinental lithospheric mantle / Bill Griffin -- Distribution and geochemistry of komatiites and basalts through the Archean / Stephen J. Barnes and Nick Arndt -- The formation of tonalites-trondjhemites-granodiorites and of the early continental crust / J. Elis Hoffmann, Zhang, JF Moyen, and Nagel -- Early Archean asteroid impacts on Earth : stratigraphic and isotopic age correlations and possible geodynamic consequences / Alexandra Krull Davatzes and Steven Goderis -- Palaeoarchean (3.6-3.2Ga) mineral systems in the context of continental crust building and the role of mantle plumes / Franco Pirajno and David L. Huston -- Origin of Paleoarchean sulfate deposits / Pascal Philippot -- The most ancient remnants. Earth's oldest rocks and minerals / Kent Condie -- The oldest terrestrial mineral record : thirty years of research on Hadean zircon from Jack Hills, Western Australia / Aaron J. Cavosie -- Evidence of Hadean to Paleoarchean crust in the Youanmi and Southwest terranes, and Eastern Goldfields Superterrane of the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia / Stephen Wyche, Yongjun Lu and Michael T.D. Wingate -- Hadean to Paleoarchean rocks and zircons in China / Yusheng Wan, Liu D, Xie H, Alfred Kröner, Wilde Alexander Simon, Dong Chunyan, Shoujie Liu, Shiwen Xie and Mingzhu Ma -- The Acasta Gneiss Complex / Jesse R. Reimink -- The Nuvvuagittuq greenstone belt : a glimpse of Earth's earliest crust / Jonathan O'Neil -- The 3.9-3.6 Ga Itsaq Gneiss Complex of Greenland : quasi-uniformitarian geodynamics towards the end of Earth's first billion years / Allen Nutman -- The Narryer Terrane, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia : review and recent developments / Tony Ivan Kemp -- Well-preserved granitoid-greenstone terrains. Paleoarchean development of a continental nucleus: the East Pilbara Terrane of the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia / Martin Julian Van Kranendonk, R. Hugh Smithies and David C. Champion -- 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 and Martin Julian Van Kranendonk -- Geochemistry of Paleoarchean granites of the East Pilbara Terrane, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia : implications for early Archean crustal growth / David C. Champion -- Palaeoarchaean mineral deposits of the Pilbara Craton : genesis, tectonic environment and comparisons with younger deposits / David L. Huston and Franco Pirajno -- Early Archean crustal evolution in southern Africa : an updated record of the Ancient Gneiss Complex of Swaziland / J. Elis Hoffmann and Alfred Kröner -- Geology of the Barberton Greenstone Belt : a unique record of crustal development, surface processes, and early life 3.55 to 3.2 Ga / Gary R. Byerly, Donald R. Lowe and Christoph Heubeck -- TTG plutons of the Barberton granitoid-greenstone terrain, southern Africa / JF Moyen -- Tectono-metamorphic controls on Archaean gold mineralisation in the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa : an example from the New Consort gold mine / Annika Dziggel -- Filling the gaps. Paleoarchean gneisses in the Minnesota River Valley and northern Michigan, USA / Marion Bickford -- The Assean Lake Complex: Ancient crust at the northwestern margin of the Superior Craton, Manitoba, Canada / Christian O. Böhm -- Oldest rocks of the Wyoming Craton / Kevin R. Chamberlain and Paul A. Mueller -- Early crustal evolution as recorded in the granitoids of the Singhbhum and western Dharwar cratons, India / Sukanta Dey -- Palaeoarchaean crustal evolution of the Bundelkhand Craton, north-central India / Lopamundra Saha -- Paleoarchean rocks in the Fennoscandian Shield / Pentti Sakari Hölttä -- Archean crustal evolution in the Ukrainian shield / Stefan Claesson, Gennadiy Artemenko, Svetlana Bogdanova and Leonid Shumlyanskyy / The Palaeoarchaean record of the Zimbabwe Craton / Axel Hofmann -- Ancient Antarctica : the Archean of the East Antarctic Shield / Simon Harley -- Life. Implications of carbonate and chert isotope records for the early Earth / Graham A. Shields -- Archean cherts : formation processes and paleo-environments / Morgane Marine Ledevin -- The significance of carbonaceous matter to understanding life processes on early Earth / Mark Adriaan Van Zuilen -- Eoarchean Life from the Isua supracrustal belt (Greenland) / Allen Nutman -- Depositional setting of the fossiliferous, c. 3480 Ma Dresser Formation, Pilbara Craton : a review / Martin Julian Van Kranendonk -- Early Archean (pre-3.0 Ga) cellularly-preserved microfossils and microfossil-like structures from the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia : a review / Kenichiro Sugitani -- Traces of early Life from the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa / Keyron Hickman-Lewis, Frances Westall and Barbara Cavalazzi.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Earth's Oldest Rocks, Second Edition, is the only single reference source for geological research of early Earth. This new edition is an up-to-date collection of scientific articles on all aspects of the early history of the Earth, from planetary accretion at 4.567 billion years ago (Ga), to the onset of modern-style plate tectonics at 3.2 Ga. Since the first edition was published, significant new advances have been made in our understanding of events and processes on early Earth that correspond with new advances in technology. The book includes contributions from over 100 authors, all of whom are experts in their respective fields. The research in this reference concentrates on what is directly gleaned from the existing rock record to understand how our planet formed and evolved during the planetary accretion phase, formation of the first crust, the changing dynamics of the mantle and style of tectonics, life's foothold and early development, and mineral deposits. It is an ideal resource for academics, students and the general public alike"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Earth's oldest rocks
• ISBN: 0-444-63902-0; 0-444-63901-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910583366803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II