Note: 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 -- 2.3. Geochemical Diversity in Volcanic Rocks of the > -- 3.7 Ga Isua Greenstone Belt, Southern West Greenland: Implications for Mantle Composition and Geodynamic Processes -- 2.4. 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 -- 2.9. Commentary -- Chapter 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. , 3.8. The Limpopo Belt of Southern Africa: A Neoarchaean to Palaeoproterozoic Orogen -- 3.9. 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 -- 4.2. Terminology of Volcaniclastic and Volcanic Rocks -- 4.3. 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 -- 5.5. The Precambrian Sulphur Isotope Record of Evolving Atmospheric Oxygen -- 5.6. Earth's Two Great Precambrian Glaciations: Aftermath of the "Snowball Earth" Hypothesis -- 5.7. The Paradox of Proterozoic Glaciomarine Deposition, Open Seas and Strong Seasonality Near the Palaeo-Equator: Global Implications -- 5.8. Neoproterozoic Sedimentation Rates and Timing of Glaciations-A Southern African Perspective -- 5.9. Earth's Precambrian Rotation and the Evolving Lunar Orbit: Implications of Tidal Rhythmite Data for Palaeogeophysics -- 5.10. Ancient Climatic and Tectonic Settings Inferred from Palaeosols Developed on Igneous Rocks -- 5.11. Aggressive Archaean Weathering -- 5.12. Commentary. , Chapter 6. EVOLUTION OF LIFE AND PRECAMBRIAN BIO-GEOLOGY -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Earth's Earliest Biosphere: Status of the Hunt -- 6.3. Evolving Life and Its Effect on Precambrian Sedimentation -- 6.4. Microbial Origin of Precambrian Carbonates: Lessons from Modern Analogues -- 6.5. Precambrian Stromatolites: Problems in Definition, Classification, Morphology and Stratigraphy -- 6.6. Precambrian Geology and Exobiology -- 6.7. Commentary -- Chapter 7. SEDIMENTATION THROUGH TIME -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. Sedimentary Structures: An Essential Key for Interpreting the Precambrian Rock Record -- 7.3. Archaean Sedimentary Sequences -- 7.4. Discussion of Selected Techniques and Problems in the Field Mapping and Interpretation of Archaean Clastic Metasedimentary Rocks of the Superior Province, Canada -- 7.5. Precambrian Tidalites: Recognition and Significance -- 7.6. Sedimentary Dynamics of Precambrian Aeolianites -- 7.7. Early Precambrian Epeiric Seas -- 7.8. Precambrian Rivers -- 7.9. Microbial Mats in the Siliciclastic Rock Record: A Summary of Diagnostic Features -- 7.10. Microbial Mat Features in Sandstones Illustrated -- 7.11. Sedimentation Rates -- 7.12. Commentary -- Chapter 8. SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY AND THE PRECAMBRIAN -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. Concepts of Sequence Stratigraphy -- 8.3. Development and Sequences of the Athabasca Basin, Early Proterozoic, Saskatchewan and Alberta, Canada -- 8.4. Third-Order Sequence Stratigraphy in the Palaeoproterozoic Daspoort Formation (Pretoria Group, Transvaal Supergroup), Kaapvaal Craton -- 8.5. Commentary -- Chapter 9. TOWARDS A SYNTHESIS -- 9.1. Evolution of the Solar System and the Early Earth -- 9.2. Generation of Continental Crust -- 9.3. Tectonism and Mantle Plumes through Time -- 9.4. Precambrian Volcanism, an Independent Variable -- 9.5. Evolution of the Hydrosphere and Atmosphere. , 9.6. Evolution of Precambrian Life and Bio-Geology -- 9.7. Sedimentation Regimes through Time -- 9.8. Sequence Stratigraphy through Time -- 9.9. Tempos and Events in Precambrian Time -- References -- Subject Index.

Note: PROLACTIN -- Editor's page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Hypothalamic Control of Prolactin Synthesis and Secretion -- Chapter 2 Role of Prolactin in Developmental Differentiation of Hypothalamic Dopaminergic Neurons -- Chapter 3 Mechanisms of Dopamine Action on the Lactotroph -- Chapter 4 Regulation of Lactotrophs and Prolactin Secretion in Non-mammalian Vertebrates -- Chapter 5 Prolactinomas -- Chapter 6 The Psychosomatic Interface: Hyperprolactinemia -- Chapter 7 Genetics of Prolactinomas -- Chapter 8 Rodent Prolactin Family and Pregnancy -- Chapter 9 Human Uteroplacental Lactogens: Physiology and Molecular Biology -- Chapter 10 Structure-Function Relationships in Prolactin -- Chapter 11 Mammary Gland Development -- Chapter 12 Actions of Prolactin in the Prostate Gland -- Chapter 13 Prolactin Regulation of Cell Proliferation and Apoptosis -- Chapter 14 Mechanisms of Luteal Cell Regulation by Prolactin -- Chapter 15 Regulation of Pancreatic Islets by Prolactin, Growth Hormone and Placental Lactogen -- Chapter 16 In Vitro Effects of Prolactin on the Lympho-Hemopoietic System -- Chapter 17 Prolactin Receptors -- Chapter 18 Prolactin Receptor Signal Transduction -- Chapter 19 Transcription Factors, Cofactors and Target Genes Mediating Prolactin Signals -- Index.