Keywords:
Geology, Stratigraphic -- Archaean.
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Electronic books.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (246 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783319079080
Series Statement:
Modern Approaches in Solid Earth Sciences Series ; v.9
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=1802973
DDC:
551.712
Language:
English
Note:
Intro -- Vestiges of a Beginning -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: The Moon and the Late Heavy Bombardment (LHB) -- Chapter 2: Hadean and Early Archaean High Grade Metamorphic Terrains -- 2.1 Mount Narryer > -- 4.0 Ga Detrital Zircons -- 2.2 Acasta Gneiss and Hadean Zircons -- 2.3 Northeastern Superior Province Gneisses -- 2.4 Wyoming Gneisses -- 2.5 Itsaq Gneisses and Supracrustals, Southwest Greenland -- 2.6 Siberian Gneisses -- 2.7 North China Craton -- 2.8 Antarctic Gneisses -- Chapter 3: Early Archaean Mafic-Ultramafic Crustal Relics -- Chapter 4: The Tonalite-Trondhjemite-Granodiorite (TTG) Suite and Archaean Island Continents -- 4.1 Archaean Batholiths -- 4.2 Vertical Crustal Zonation -- Chapter 5: Isotopic Temporal Trends of Early Crustal Evolution -- 5.1 U-Th-Pb Isotopes -- 5.2 Rb-Sr Isotopes -- 5.3 The Lu-Hf System -- 5.4 The Sm-Nd System -- 5.5 The Re-Os System -- Chapter 6: Geochemical Trends of Archaean Magmatism -- 6.1 Mafic and Ultramafic Volcanics -- 6.2 Felsic Igneous Rocks -- Chapter 7: Pre-3.2 Ga Evolution and Asteroid Impacts of the Barberton Greenstone Belt, Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa -- 7.1 The Barberton Greenstone Belt, Eastern Kaapvaal Craton -- 7.1.1 Onverwacht Group -- 7.2 Evolution of the Zimbabwe Craton -- 7.3 Pre-3.2 Ga Asteroid Impact Units of the Kaapvaal Craton -- Chapter 8: Evolution and Pre-3.2 Ga Asteroid Impact Clusters: Pilbara Craton, Western Australia -- 8.1 Crustal Evolution -- 8.2 ~Pre-3.2 Ga Impact Fallout Units in the Pilbara Craton -- 8.3 ~3.24-3.227 Ga Impact-Correlated Units -- Chapter 9: Post-3.2 Ga Granite-Greenstone Systems -- 9.1 Evolution of the Yilgarn Craton -- 9.2 Evolution of South Indian Granite-Greenstone Terrains -- 9.3 Accretion of Superior Province Terrains -- 9.4 Archaean Fennoscandian/Baltic Terrains -- Chapter 10: Post-3.2 Ga Basins and Asteroid Impact Units.
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10.1 Late Archaean Griqualand West Basin -- 10.2 Late Archaean Fortescue and Hamersley Basins Impact Units -- 10.2.1 ~2.63 Ga Jeerinah Impact Layer and the Roy Hill and Carawine Dolomite Impact/Tsunami Megabreccia -- 10.2.2 ~2.57 Ga Paraburdoo Impact Spherule Unit (PSL) -- 10.2.3 ~2.56 Ga Spherule Marker Bed (SMB) -- 10.2.4 ~2.48 Ga Impact, Dales Gorge (DGS4) -- 10.2.5 Estimates of Asteroid Size and Compositions -- 10.3 Impact Fallout Units and Banded Iron Formations -- 10.4 Inter-continental Correlation of Impact Units -- Chapter 11: The Early Atmosphere and Archaean Life -- 11.1 Archaean Carbon-Oxygen-Sulphur Cycles and the Early Atmosphere -- 11.2 Archaean Life -- Chapter 12: Uniformitarian Theories and Catastrophic Events Through Time -- Appendices -- Appendix 1: U-Pb Zircon Ages (Except Where Specified Otherwise) from the Ancient Gneiss Complex, Swaziland (AGC) and Barberton Greenstone Belt, Eastern Transvaal (BGB) (Compiled After Poujol 2007) -- Appendix 2: Key Supracrustal and Plutonic Units and Isotopic Ages, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia -- About the Author -- References -- Index.
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