UID:
edocfu_9960073878502883
Format:
1 online resource (657 p.)
ISBN:
1-4832-5726-6
Series Statement:
Developments in Geotectonics ; 4
Content:
Developments in Geotectonics, 4: The Upper Mantle focuses on the upper mantle and its influence on the development of the earth's crust, including history of the moon and other planets and volcanology. The selection first offers information on the origin of the earth, including ideas on the formation process of the terrestrial planets, condensation of dust particles, nature of the earth's core, thermal history of the earth, and fractionation of iron in the terrestrial planets. The text then ponders on the beginning of continental evolution, as well as the oldest rocks of the earth's crust, the
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Front Cover; The Upper Mantle; Copyright Page; PREFACE; Table of Contents; LIST OF AUTHORS; CHAPTER 1. SIGNIFICANCE AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE UPPER MANTLE PROJECT; SPECIFIC RESULTS; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER 2. ORIGIN OF THE EARTH; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; MODERN IDEAS ON THE FORMATION PROCESS OF THE TERRESTRIAL PLANETS; ORIGIN OF THE SOLAR NEBULA; NUCLEOSYNTHESIS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM MATERIAL; CONDENSATION OF DUST PARTICLES; THE RATE OF ACCUMULATION OF THE EARTH; INITIAL TEMPERATURE OF THE EARTH; THE EARLY THERMAL HISTORY OF THE UPPER MANTLE AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE EARTH-MOON SYSTEM
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THE NATURE OF THE EARTH'S CORETHERMAL HISTORY OF THE EARTH; FRACTIONATION OF IRON IN THE TERRESTRIAL PLANETS; FRACTIONATION OF TRACE ELEMENTS; SOME URGENT PROBLEMS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 3. THE BEGINNING OF CONTINENTAL EVOLUTION; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; THE OLDEST ROCKS OF THE EARTH'S CRUST; THERMAL HISTORY OF THE MOON; IMPLICATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE EARTH; EARLY HISTORY OF OTHER PLANETS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENT; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 4. MAGMATIC ACTIVITY AS THE MAJOR PROCESS IN THE CHEMICAL EVOLUTION OF THE EARTH'S CRUST AND MANTLE; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION
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CRUST-MANTLE DIFFERENTIATION AS EXEMPLIFIED BY RECENT BASALTIC VOLCANISMEVOLUTION OF MODERN OCEANIC CRUST; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION IN ISLAND ARCS; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION THROUGHOUT GEOLOGICAL TIME; THE ARCHAEAN CRUST; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 5. NEW INSIGHTS INTO OLD SHIELDS; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; SUMMARY OF WORK DURING THE U.M.P. (1960-1970) ON SHIELD AREAS (NOT NECESSARILY COMPLETE); THE DIVISION OF PRECAMBRIAN TIME INTO ERAS AND OF PRECAMBRIAN SHIELDSINTO PROVINCES; A POSSIBLE MECHANISM FOR THE UPLIFT AND BREAK-UP OF CONTINENTS AND FOR SEA-FLOOR SPREADING; REFERENCES
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CHAPTER 6. BASIC TRENDS IN THE EVOLUTION OF CONTINENTSABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; ENDOGENOUS REGIMES; EVOLUTION OF ENDOGENOUS REGIMES; RECURRENCE OF ENDOGENOUS PROCESSES; THE ORIGIN OF FOLDING; CORRELATION OF ENDOGENOUS REGIMES WITH DEEP PROCESSES AND STRUCTURE; A MODEL OF DEEP PROCESSES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 7. MAGMATIC HISTORY OF THE ALPS - A SHORT SUMMARY; SELECTION OF RECENT LITERATURE ON THE SUBJECT; CHAPTER 8. PROGRESS AND PROBLEMS IN VOLCANOLOGY; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; GEOPHYSICAL DATA; THE DEPTH OF MAGMATIC CHAMBERS; PETROCHEMISTRY OF VOLCANIC ROCKS; GEOCHEMICAL DATA
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XENOLITHSEXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; STUDY OF ERUPTIONS; PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF VOLCANOLOGY; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 9. PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE CONDITIONS AND TECTONIC SIGNIFICANCE OF REGIONAL AND OCEAN-FLOOR METAMORPHISM; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE OF METAMORPHISM; NATURE AND TECTONIC SIGNIFICANCE OF REGIONAL METAMORPHISM; FINDING OF OCEAN-FLOOR METAMORPHISM AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 10. THE SYSTEM MgO-FeO-Si02 AT HIGH PRESSURES AND TEMPERATURES - PHASE EQUILIBRIA AND ELASTIC PROPERTIES; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE
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THE SYSTEM MgSi03-FeSi03 AT HIGH PRESSURES AND HIGH TEMPERATURES
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-322-25543-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-444-41015-5
Language:
English
