Earth's Oldest Rocks

"Earth's Oldest Rocks" provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of early Earth, from planetary accretion through to development of protocratons with depleted lithospheric keels by c. 3.2 Ga, in a series of papers written by over 50 of the world's leading experts. The book is divided into two chapters on early Earth history, ten chapters on the geology of specific cratons, and two chapters on early Earth analogues and the tectonic framework of early Earth. Individual contributions address topics that range from planetary accretion, a review of Earth meteorites, significance and composition of Hadean protocrust, composition of Archaean mantle and deep crust, all aspects of the geology of Paleoarchean cratons, composition of Archean oceans and hydrothermal environments, evidence and geological settings of early life, early Earth analogues from Venus and New Zealand, and a tectonic framework for early Earth. This title contains comprehensive reviews of areas of ancient lithosphere on Earth, of planetary accretion processes, and of meteorites. It focuses on specific aspects of early Earth, including oldest putative life forms, evidence of the composition of the ancient atmosphere-hydrosphere, and the oldest evidence for subduction-accretion. It presents an overview of geological processes and model of the tectonic framework on early Earth.

ISBN 0444528105   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780444528100 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 2576 Publisher Elsevier Science & Technology   Published in Oxford Imprint Elsevier Science Ltd   Series ISSN 15 Format Hardback   Series title Developments in Precambrian Geology Publication date 24 Sep 2007   Height (mm) 240 Library of Congress QE   Width (mm) 165 DEWEY 551.71   Spine width (mm) 59 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Professional / Scholarly Pages 1330

		Preface: Aims, Scope, and Outline of the Book by Martin J. Van Kranendonk and R. Hugh Smithies and Vickie Bennett
Pt. 1		Introduction		1
Ch. 1.1		Overview and History of Investigation of Early Earth Rocks by Brian Windley		3
Ch. 1.2		The Distribution of Paleoarchean Crust by Kent Condie		9
Pt. 2		Planetary Accretion and the Hadean to Eoarchean Earth - Building the Foundation		19
Ch. 2.1		The Formation of the Earth and Moon by Stuart Ross Taylor		21
Ch. 2.2		Early Solar System Materials, Processes, and Chronology by Alex W. R. Bevan		31
Ch. 2.3		Dynamics of the Hadean and Archaean Mantle by Geoffrey F. Davies		61
Ch. 2.4		The Enigma of the Terrestrial Protocrust: Evidence for Its Former Existence and the Importance of Its Complete Disappearance by Balz S. Kamber		75
Ch. 2.5		The Oldest Terrestrial Mineral Record: A Review of 4400 to 4000 Ma Detrital Zircons from Jack Hills, Western Australia by Aaron J. Cavosie and John W. Valley and Simon A. Wilde		91
Ch. 2.6		Evidence of Pre-3100 Ma Crust in the Youanmi and South West Terranes, and Eastern Goldfields Superterrane, of the Yilgarn Craton by Stephen Wyche		113
Pt. 3		Eoarchean Gneiss Complexes		125
Ch. 3.1		The Early Archean Acasta Gneiss Complex: Geological, Geochronological and Isotopic Studies and Implications for Early Crustal Evolution by Tsuyoshi Iizuka and Tsuyoshi Komiya and Shigenori Maruyama		127
Ch. 3.2		Ancient Antarctica: The Archaean of the East Antarctic Shield by Simon L. Harley and Nigel M. Kelly		149
Ch. 3.3		The Itsaq Gneiss Complex of Southern West Greenland and the Construction of Eoarchaean Crust ut Convergent Plate Boundaries by Allen P. Nutman and Clark R. L. Friend and Kenji Horie and Hiroshi Hidaka		187
Ch. 3.4		The Geology of the 3.8 Ga Nuvvuagittuq (Porpoise Cove) Greenstone Belt, Northeastern Superior Province, Canada by Jonathan O'Neil and Charles Maurice and Ross K. Stevenson and Jeff Larocque and Christophe Cloquet and Jean David and Don Francis		219
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