UID:
edoccha_9960072692202883
Format:
1 online resource (967 p.)
ISBN:
1-282-30917-X
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9786612309175
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0-08-054259-X
Series Statement:
Developments in Precambrian geology
Content:
In this book the editors strive to cover all primary (i.e. non-applied) topics in Precambrian geology in a non-partisan way, by using a large team of international authors to present their datasets and highly divergent viewpoints. The chapters address: celestial origins of Earth and succeeding extraterrestrial impact events; generation of continental crust and the greenstone-granite debate; the interaction of mantle plumes and plate tectonics over Precambrian time; Precambrian volcanism, emphasising komatiite research; evolution and models for Earth's hydrosphere and atmosphere; evo
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Front Cover; The Precambrian Earth: Tempos and Events; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributing Authors; PREFACE; Chapter 1. THE EARLY EARTH; 1.1. Introduction; 1.2. Earth's Formation and First Billion Years; 1.3. The Early Precambrian Stratigraphic Record of Large Extraterrestrial Impacts; 1.4. Strategies for Finding the Record of Early Precambrian Impact Events; 1.5. Commentary; Chapter 2. GENERATION OF CONTINENTAL CRUST; 2.1. Introduction; 2.2. Isua Enigmas: Illusive Tectonic, Sedimentary, Volcanic and Organic Features of the 〉 3.7 Ga Isua Greenstone Belt, Southwest Greenland
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2.3. Geochemical Diversity in Volcanic Rocks of the 〉 3.7 Ga Isua Greenstone Belt, Southern West Greenland: Implications for Mantle Composition and Geodynamic Processes2.4. Abitibi Greenstone Belt Plate Tectonics: The Diachrononous History of Arc Development, Accretion and Collision; 2.5. Granite Formation and Emplacement as Indicators of Archaean Tectonic Processes; 2.6. Diapiric Processes in the Formation of Archaean Continental Crust, East Pilbara Granite-Greenstone Terrane, Australia; 2.7. Early Archaean Crustal Collapse Structures and Sedimentary Basin Dynamics; 2.8. Crustal Growth Rates
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2.9. CommentaryChapter 3. TECTONISM AND MANTLE PLUMES THROUGH TIME; 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. Precambrian Superplume Events; 3.3. Large Igneous Province Record through Time; 3.4. Episodic Crustal Growth During Catastrophic Global-Scale Mantle Overturn Events; 3.5. An Unusual Palaeoproterozoic Magmatic Event, the Ultrapotassic Christopher Island Formation, Baker Lake Group, Nunavut, Canada: Archaean Mantle Metasomatism and Palaeoproterozoic Mantle Reactivation; 3.6. A Commentary on Precambrian Plate Tectonics; 3.7. Precambrian Ophiolites
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3.8. The Limpopo Belt of Southern Africa: A Neoarchaean to Palaeoproterozoic Orogen3.9. Geodynamic Crustal Evolution and Long-Lived Supercontinents During the Palaeoproterozoic: Evidence from Granulite-Gneiss Belts, Collisional and Accretionary Orogens; 3.10. Formation of a Late Mesoproterozoic Supercontinent: The South Africa-East Antarctica Connection; 3.11. A Mechanism for Explaining Rapid Continental Motion in the Late Neoproterozoic; 3.12. Commentary; Chapter 4. PRECAMBRIAN VOLCANISM: AN INDEPENDENT VARIABLE THROUGH TIME; 4.1. Introduction
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4.2. Terminology of Volcaniclastic and Volcanic Rocks4.3. Komatiites: Volcanology, Geochemistry and Textures; 4.4. Archaean and Proterozoic Greenstone Belts: Setting and Evolution; 4.5. Explosive Subaqueous Volcanism; 4.6. Archaean Calderas; 4.7. Commentary; Chapter 5. THE EVOLUTION OF THE PRECAMBRIAN ATMOSPHERE: CARBON ISOTOPIC EVIDENCE FROM THE AUSTRALIAN CONTINENT; 5.1. Introduction; 5.2. Archaean Atmosphere, Hydrosphere and Biosphere; 5.3. Evolution of the Precambrian Atmosphere: Carbon Isotopic Evidence from the Australian Continent; 5.4. Precambrian Iron-Formation
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5.5. The Precambrian Sulphur Isotope Record of Evolving Atmospheric Oxygen
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-444-51506-2
Language:
English
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