Earth's oldest rocks [Elektronisk resurs] / edited by Martin J. Van Kranendonk, R. Hugh Smithies, Vickie C. Bennett.

• PART 1. INTRODUCTION-- Overview and history of investigation of early earth rocks / Brian Windley -- The distribution of Paleoarchean crust / Kent Condie -- PART 2. PLANETARY ACCRETION AND THE HADEAN TO EOARCHEAN EARTH : BUILDING THE FOUNDATION-- The formation of the earth and moon / Stuart Ross Taylor -- Early solar system materials, processes, and chronology / Alex W.R. Bevan -- Dynamics of the Hadean and Archean mantle / Geoffrey F. Davies -- The enigma of the terrestrial protocrust : evidence for its former existence and the importance of its complete disappearance / Balz S. Kamber -- 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 -- Evidence of pre-3100 Ma crust in the Youanmi and South West terranes, and Eastern Goldfields superterrane, of the Yilgarn Craton / Stephen Wyche -- PART 3. EOARCHEAN GNEISS COMPLEXES -- The early Archean Acasta gneiss complex : geological, geochronological and isotopic studies and implications for early crustal evolution / Tsuyoshi Iizuka, Tsuyoshi Komiya and Shigenori Maruyama -- Ancient Antarctica : the Archean of the East Antarctic shield / Simon L. Harley and Nigel M. Kelly -- The Itsaq gneiss complex of southern West Greenland and the construction of Eoarchean crust at convergent plate boundaries / Allen P. Nutman, Clark R.L. Friend, Kenji Horie and Hiroshi Hidaka -- The geology of the 3.8 Ga Nuvvuagittuq (Porpoise Cove) greenstone belt, northeastern Superior Province, Canada / Jonathan O’Neil, Charles Maurice, Ross K. Stevenson, Jeff Larocque, Christophe Cloquet, Jean David and Don Francis -- Eoarchean rocks and zircons in the North China Craton / Dunyi Y. Liu, Y.S. Wan, J.S. Wu, S.A. Wilde, H.Y. Zhou, C.Y. Dong and X.Y. Yin -- The Narryer terrane, Western Australia : a review / Simon A. Wilde and Catherine Spaggiari. 
• PART 4. THE PALEOARCHEAN PILBARA CRATON, WESTERN AUSTRALIA -- Paleoarchean development of a continental nucleus : the East Pilbara terrane of the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia / Martin J. Van Kranendonk, R. Hugh Smithies, Arthur H. Hickman 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, David C. Champion and Martin J. Van Kranendonk -- 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 -- Palaeoarchaean mineral deposits of the Pilbara Craton : genesis, tectonic environment and comparisons with younger deposits / David L. Huston, Peter Morant, Franco Pirajno, Brendan Cummins, Darcy Baker and Terrence P. Mernagh -- PART 5. THE PALEOARCHEAN KAAPVAAL CRATON, SOUTHERN AFRICA -- An overview of the pre-Mesoarchean rocks of the Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa / Marc Poujol -- The ancient gneiss complex of Swaziland and environs : record of early Archean crustal evolution in southern Africa / Alfred Kröner -- An overview of the geology of the Barberton greenstone belt and vicinity : implications for early crustal development / Donald R. Lowe and Gary R. Byerly -- Volcanology of the Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa : inflation and evolution of flow fields / Jesse C. Dann and Timothy L. Grove -- 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 -- TTG plutons of the Barberton granitoid-greenstone terrain, South Africa / Jean-François Moyen, Gary Stevens, Alexander F.M. Kisters and Richard W. Belcher-- Metamorphism in the Barberton granitoid-greenstone terrain : a record of Paleoarchean accretion / Gary Stevens and Jean-François 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, Alexander Otto, Alexander F.M. Kisters and F. Michael Meyer. 
• PART 6. PALEOARCHEAN GNEISS TERRANES -- Paleoarchean gneisses in the Minnesota River Valley and northern Michigan, USA / Marion E. Bickford, Joseph L. Wooden, Robert L. Bauer and Mark D. Schmitz -- 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 -- Oldest rocks of the Wyoming Craton / Kevin R. Chamberlain and Paul A. Mueller -- The oldest rock assemblages of the Siberian Craton / Oleg M. Rosen and O.M. Turkina -- PART 7. LIFE ON EARLY EARTH -- Searching for earth's earliest life in southern West Greenland : history, current status, and future prospects / Martin J. Whitehouse and Christopher M. Fedo -- A review of the evidence for putative Paleoarchean life in the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia / Martin J. Van Kranendonk -- Stable carbon and sulphur isotope geochemistry of the c. 3490 Ma Dresser Formation hydrothermal deposit, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia / Yuichiro Ueno -- Organic geochemistry of Archean carbonaceous cherts from the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia / Craig P. Marshall -- Sulphur on the early earth / Steven J. Mojzsis -- The marine carbonate and chert isotope records and their implications for tectonics, life and climate on the early earth / Graham A. Shields -- PART 8. TECTONICS ON EARLY EARTH -- Venus : a thin-lithosphere analog for early earth? / Vickie L. Hansen -- The earliest subcontinental lithospheric mantle / W.L. Griffin and Suzanne Y. O'Reilly -- Ancient to modern earth : the role of mantle plumes in the making of continental crust / Franco Pirajno -- Eo- to Mesoarchean terranes of the Superior Province and their tectonic context / John A. Percival -- Early Archean asteroid impacts on earth : stratigraphic and isotopic age correlations and possible geodynamic consequences / Andrew Glikson -- Tectonics of early earth / Martin J. Van Kranendonk. 

• The geological history of early Earth holds a certain ineluctable fascination, not just for professional Earth Scientists and geology students, but for scientists in other disciplines, as well as many in the general public. This fascination with early Earth is compelling, not least because we know so little about it, but also because - as with the search for life on ancient Earth and elsewhere in the solar system - it casts light on the fundamental issues of our existence: who are we; how are we here? To facilitate a better understanding of these questions, we need to know how our home planet formed, what it was like in its early history, how it was able to foster the development of life, and how it evolved into the planet we live on today. This book is organised into eight parts, including an Introduction, five parts describing the geology of Earth’s oldest rocks, a part on early life, and a final part on the tectonics of early Earth. 

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