Earth's oldest rocks
By: edited by Martin J. Van Kranendonk, R. Hugh Smithies, Vickie C. Bennett.
Contributors: Van Kranendonk, Martin.; Smithies, R. H.; Bennett, Vickie C.
Series: Developments in Precambrian geology -- 15.
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Amsterdam; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1307
ISBN-13: 9780444528100
Subjects: Geology, Stratigraphic -- Precambrian; Geodynamics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Overview and history of investigation of early earth rocks / Brian Windley; title: The distribution of Paleoarchean crust / Kent Condie; title: The formation of the earth and moon / Stuart Ross Taylor; title: Early solar system materials, processes, and chronology / Alex W.R. Bevan; title: Dynamics of the Hadean and Archean mantle / Geoffrey F. Davies; title: The enigma of the terrestrial protocrust : evidence for its former existence and the importance of its complete disappearance / Balz S. Kamber; title: The oldest terrestrial mineral record : a review of 4400 to 3900 Ma detrital zircons from Jack Hills, Western Australia / Aaron J. Cavosie, John W. Valley and Simon A. Wilde; title: Evidence of pre-3100 Ma crust in the Youanmi and South West terranes, and Eastern Goldfields superterrane, of the Yilgarn Craton / Stephen Wyche; title: The early Archean Acasta gneiss complex : geological, geochronological and isotopic studies and implications for early crustal evolution / Tsuyoshi Iizuka, Tsuyoshi Komiya and Shigenori Maruyama; title: Ancient Antarctica : the Archean of the East Antarctic shield / Simon L. Harley and Nigel M. Kelly; title: The Itsaq gneiss complex of southern West Greenland and the construction of Eoarchean crust at convergent plate boundaries / Allen P. Nutman ... [et al.]; title: The geology of the 3.8 Ga Nuvvuagittuq (Porpoise Cove) greenstone belt, northeastern Superior Province, Canada / Jonathan O'Neil ... [et al.]; title: Eoarchean rocks and zircons in the North China Craton / Dunyi Y. Liu ... [et al.]; title: The Narryer terrane, Western Australia : a review / Simon A. Wilde and Catherine Spaggiari; title: Paleoarchean development of a continental nucleus : the East Pilbara terrane of the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia / Martin J. Van Kranendonk ... [et al.]; title: 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; title: 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; title: Palaeoarchaean mineral deposits of the Pilbara Craton : genesis, tectonic environment and comparisons with younger deposits / David L. Huston ... [et al.]; title: An overview of the pre-Mesoarchean rocks of the Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa / Marc Poujol; title: The ancient gneiss complex of Swaziland and environs : record of early Archean crustal evolution in southern Africa / Alfred Kröner; title: An overview of the geology of the Barberton greenstone belt and vicinity : implications for early crustal development / Donald R. Lowe and Gary R. Byerly; title: Volcanology of the Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa : inflation and evolution of flow fields / Jesse C. Dann and Timothy L. Grove; title: 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; title: TTG plutons of the Barberton granitoid-greenstone terrain, South Africa / Jean-François Moyen ... [et al.]; title: Metamorphism in the Barberton granitoid-greenstone terrain : a record of Paleoarchean accretion / Gary Stevens and Jean-François Moyen; title: Tectono-metamorphic controls on Archaean gold mineralisation in the Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa : an example from the New Consort gold mine / Annika Dziggel ... [et al.]; title: Paleoarchean gneisses in the Minnesota River Valley and northern Michigan, USA / Marion E. Bickford ... [et al.]; title: The Assean Lake Complex : ancient crust at the northwestern margin of the Superior Craton, Manitoba, Canada / Christian O. Böhm, Russell P. Hartlaub and Larry M. Heaman; title: Oldest rocks of the Wyoming Craton / Kevin R. Chamberlain and Paul A. Mueller; title: The oldest rock assemblages of the Siberian Craton / Oleg M. Rosen and O.M. Turkina; title: Searching for earth's earliest life in southern West Greenland : history, current status, and future prospects / Martin J. Whitehouse and Christopher M. Fedo; title: A review of the evidence for putative Paleoarchean life in the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia / Martin J. Van Kranendonk; title: Stable carbon and sulphur isotope geochemistry of the c. 3490 Ma Dresser Formation hydrothermal deposit, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia / Yuichiro Ueno; title: Organic geochemistry of Archean carbonaceous cherts from the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia / Craig P. Marshall; title: Sulphur on the early earth / Steven J. Mojzsis; title: The marine carbonate and chert isotope records and their implications for tectonics, life and climate on the early earth / Graham A. Shields; title: Venus : a thin-lithosphere analog for early earth? / Vickie L. Hansen; title: The earliest subcontinental lithospheric mantle / W.L. Griffin and Suzanne Y. O'Reilly; title: Ancient to modern earth : the role of mantle plumes in the making of continental crust / Franco Pirajno; title: Eo- to Mesoarchean terranes of the Superior Province and their tectonic context / John A. Percival; title: Early Archean asteroid impacts on earth : stratigraphic and isotopic age correlations and possible geodynamic consequences / Andrew Glikson; title: Tectonics of early earth / Martin J. Van Kranendonk.