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Edited By
Martin van Kranendonk, Geological Survey of Western Australia, East Perth and Australian Centre for Astrobiology at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Hugh Smithies, Australian National University, Canberra
Vickie Bennett, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia
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Developments in Precambrian Geology,
Description
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.
Audience
Researchers and advanced undergraduate and graduate students in geology, Precambrian geology, tectonics, geochemistry and petrology, geochronology, and economic geology.
Contents
Dedication
Preface
1.Aims, scope and outline of the book: Martin J. Van Kranendonk, R. Hugh Smithies, and Vickie Bennett
Chapter 1: Introduction
2. Overview and history of investigation of early Earth rocks: Brian Windley
3. The distribution
of Paleoarchean crust: Kent Condie
Chapter 2: Planetary accretion and the Hadean to Eoarchaean Earth - Building the Foundation
4. The formation of the Earth and Moon: Stuart Ross Taylor
5. Early solar system materials, processes, and chronology: Alex W.R. Bevan
6. Dynamics of the Hadean and Archean Mantle: Geoff Davies
7. The enigma of the terrestrial protocrust: Evidence for its former existence
and the importance of its complete disappearance: Balz Kamber
8. 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
9. Evidence of pre-3100 Ma crust in the
Youanmi and South West Terranes, and Eastern Goldfields Superterrane of the Yilgarn Craton: Stephen Wyche
Chapter 3: Eoarchean
gneiss complexes
10. The early Archean Acasta Gneiss Complex: Geological, geochronological and isotopic studies, and implications
for early crustal evolution: Iizuka, T., Komiya, T., Ueno, Y. and Maruyama, S.
11. Ancient Antarctica: The Archean of the East Antarctic
Shield: Simon L. Harley and Nigel M. Kelly
12. 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
13. 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
14. Eoarchean rocks and zircons in the North China Craton: Lui, D.Y.,
Wan, Y.S., Wu, J.S., Wilde, S.A., Zhou, H.Y., Dong, C.Y., and Yin, X.Y.
15. The Narryer Terrane, Western Australia: A review: Simon A.
Wilde and Catherine Spaggiari
Chapter 4: The Paleoarchean Pilbara Craton, Western Australia
16. Paleoarchean development
of a continental nucleus: the East Pilbara Terrane of the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia: Martin J. Van Kranendonk, Arthur H. Hickman,
R. Hugh Smithies and David C. Champion
17. 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
18. 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
19. 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
Chapter 5: The Paleoarchean Kaapvaal Craton, Southern Africa
20. An overview of
the pre-Mesoarchean rocks of the Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa: Marc Poujol
21. An overview of the geology of the Barberton greenstone
belt and vicinity: Implications for early crustal development: Don Lowe and Gary Byerly
22. Volcanology of the Barberton Greenstone Belt,
South Africa: inflation and evolution of flow fields: Jesse Dann and Timothy L. Grove
23. Silicified basalts, bedded cherts and other
sea floor alteration phenomena of the > 3.4 Ga Nondweni greenstone belt, South Africa: Axel Hoffman and Allan Wilson
24. TTG plutons
of the Barberton granitoid-greenstone terrain, South Africa: Jean-Francois Moyen, Gary Stevens, Alexander F.M. Kisters, Richard W. Belcher
25. Metamorphism in the Barberton granitoid-greenstone terrain: A record of Earth's earliest accretionary orogen: Gary Stevens and Jean-Francois
Moyen
26. 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
Chapter 6: Paleoarchean
Gneiss Terranes
27. The Ancient Gneiss Complex of Swaziland and environs: Record of early Archean crustal evolution in southern
Africa: Alfred Kroner
28. Paleoarchean gneisses in the Minnesota River Valley and northern Michigan, USA: Marion E. Bickford, Joseph
L. Wooden, Robert L. Bauer, and Mark D. Schmitz
29. The Assean Lake Complex: Ancient crust at the northwestern margin of the Superior
Craton, Manitoba, Canada: Christian O. Bohm, Russell P. Hartlaub and Larry M. Heaman
30. Oldest rocks of the Wyoming Craton: Kevin
R. Chamberlain and Paul A. Mueller
31. Oldest rock assemblages of the Siberian Craton: Oleg M. Rosen and O. M. Turkina
Chapter
7: Life on Early Earth
32. Searching for Earth's earliest life in southern West Greenland: History, current status, and future
prospects: Martin J. Whitehouse and Christopher M. Fedo
33. Geological settings of putative Paleoarchean life in the Pilbara Craton,
Western Australia: Martin J. Van Kranendonk
34. Stable carbon and sulphur isotope geochemistry of the c. 3490 Ma Dresser Formation hydrothermal
deposit, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia: Yuichiro Ueno
35. Organic geochemistry of Archean carbonaceous cherts from the Pilbara Craton,
Western Australia: Craig Marshall
36. Sulphur on the early Earth: Steven J. Mojzsis
37. The marine carbonate and chert isotope records
and their implications for tectonics, life and climate on the early Earth: Graham A. Shields
Chapter 8: Tectonics on early Earth
38. Venus: A thin-lithosphere analog for early Earth?: Vickie L. Hansen
39. The earliest subcontinental lithospheric mantle: W.L. Griffin
and Suzanne Y. O'Reilly
40. The role of mantle plumes in the formation of continental crust on ancient to modern Earth: Franco Pirajno
41. Early Archean asteroid impacts on Earth: Stratigraphic and isotopic age correlations and possible geodynamic consequences: Andrew
Glikson
42. Eo- to Mesoarchean terranes of the Superior Province and their tectonic context: John A. Percival
43. Tectonics of early
Earth: Martin J. Van Kranendonk
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