The Archean Earth: Tempos and Events

ISBN-13: 9780323955478 / Angielski

Martin Homann; Aubrey Zerkle; Alex Webb

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Section 1. FORMATION OF A HABITABLE PLANET 1.1. Introduction 1.2. Earth's Formation and First Billion Years 1.3. The Terrestrial Record of The Late Heavy Bombardment 1.4. Earth's Oldest Rocks: A Brief Overview About the Distribution of Archean Greenstone Belts 1.5. Lessons from Other Planetary Bodies and Extra-Solar Planets 1.6. Summary Section 2. ARCHEAN TECTONICS AND VOLCANISM 2.1. Introduction 2.2. Archean-Paleoproterozoic Superplume Events and Lips 2.3. Episodic Crustal Growth During Catastrophic Global-Scale Mantle Overturn Events 2.4. Onset of Plate Tectonics 2.5 Archean-Paleoproterozoic Continental Reconstructions 2.6. Archean Gold Mineralization 2.7. Komatiites: Volcanology, Geochemistry and Textures 2.8. Archean And Greenstone Belts: Setting and Evolution 2.9 Lessons from Planetary Volcanism 2.10. Summary Section 3. GENERATION OF CONTINENTAL CRUST 3.1. Introduction 3.2. Komatiite: Implications for Mantle Composition and Geodynamic Processes 3.3. Emergence of Subaerial Crust and Onset of Weathering 3.4. Composition of Early Continental Crust 3.5. Granite Formation and Emplacement as Indicators of Archaean Tectonic Processes 3.6. Diapiric Processes in The Formation of Archaean Continental Crust 3.7. Early Archaean Crustal Collapse Structures and Sedimentary Basin Dynamics 3.8. Crustal Growth Rates 3.9. Summary Section 4. ATMOSPHERIC EVOLUTION AND ENVIRONMENTS 4.1. Introduction 4.2. Archean Atmosphere, Hydrosphere and Biosphere Evolution: Insights from The Isotopic Record 4.3. The Sulphur Isotope Record of Evolving Atmospheric Oxygen 4.4. Banded Iron Formations 4.5. Archean Surface Environments 4.6. Archean Weathering and Climate 4.7. Summary Section 5. EVOLUTION OF LIFE AND ARCHEAN GEOBIOLOGY 5.1. Introduction 5.2. Biogenicity Criteria 5.3. Evidence of Earth's Early Biosphere (Case Studies) 5.3.1. Nuvvuagittuq Supracrustal Belt 5.3.2. Pilbara Craton 5.3.3. Barberton Greenstone Belt 5.3.4. Insights into The Palaeoarchaean Record of The Singhbhum Craton, India 5.4. Organic Origin of Archean Carbonates: Insights from Modern Microbial Analogues 5.5. Origin and Evolution of Photosynthesis: A Molecular Biology Approach 5.6. Earth First Carbonate Platform 5.7. Occurrence and Biogenicity Of Archean Stromatolites and Microbial Mats 5.7. Evolution of Earth's Biogeochemical Cycles 5.8. Organic Geochemical Approaches to Understanding Early Life 5.9. The Paleoarchean Microfossil Record - A Critical Review 5.10. Evolving Life and Its Effect on Precambrian Sedimentation 5.10. Summary Section 6. SEDIMENTATION THROUGH ARCHEAN TIME 6.1. Introduction 6.2. Sedimentary Structures: An Essential Key for Interpreting the Archean Rock Record 6.3. Archean Sedimentary Sequences 6.4. Precambrian Tidalites: Recognition and Significance 6.5 Sedimentary Dynamics of Precambrian Aeolianites & Archean Witnesses of Weather Phenomena 6.6. Archean Fluvial and Lacustrine Deposits 6.7. Microbial Mats in The Siliciclastic Rock Record: A Summary of Diagnostic Features 6.8. Sedimentation Rates 6.9. S Section 7. TOWARDS A SYNTHESIS