The Precambrian Earth
Subtitle: Tempos and Events (Developments in Precambrian Geology)
Contributors: P.G. Eriksson (Editor); W. Altermann (Editor); D.R. Nelson (Editor); W.U. Mueller (Editor); O. Catuneanu (Editor)
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Published: July 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 968
ISBN-13: 9780444515094
First sentence: Inferences about the pre-4.0 Ga geological history of the Earth have been based traditionally either on the study of the oldest identified remnants on the Earth's surface (e.g., Maas et al., 1992; Nutman et al., 1996; Amelin et al., 1999; Nelson et al., 2000; Ryder et al., 2000; Wilde et al., 2001; Mojzsis et al., 2001), or on modelling of the differentiation of global chemical reservoirs (e.g., Arndt and Chauvel, 1990; Bennett et al., 1993; Bowring and Housh, 1995; Kramers and Tolstikhin, 1997; Snow and Schmidt, 1998; Albarede et al., 2000; Canfield et al., 2000; Nutman et al., 2001).