Origin of the Earth
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 28 March 1991
- ISBN 9780195066197
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages384 pages
- Size 260x184x28 mm
- Weight 1034 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous line drawings, tables 0
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Long description:
Origin of the Earth is an outgrowth of a Lunar and Planetary Institute Conference on the Origin of the Earth. Among the topics covered are theoretical models of the solar nebula, planetary accretion, and models of the differentiation of the Earth into the familiar regimes of hydrosphere, crust, mantle, and core.
A central theme of the book is a discussion of the Giant Impact model for the formation of the Moon. This popular model of lunar origin has profound implications for the early history of the Earth, not the least of which is that the Earth must have been in a largely molten state following the Giant Impact. There are samples of the Earth's mantle that show little or no sign of such extensive melting. Is the Giant Impact model incorrect, or have natural processes conspired to erase all traces of its consequences? These and other issues related to the Earth's origin and early differentiation are extensively discussed.
'this volume provides a fairly comprehensive and up-to-date review of our present knowledge of the origin of the Earth and of the various theories which have been put forward for debate ... The papers are well referenced.'
ASLIB Booklist, Vol, 56, No.10, October 1991
Table of Contents:
The earliest stages: the solar nebular and accretion of planetesimals; The giant impact and earth-moon relationships; Was there a terrestrial magma ocean?; Core formation; Formation of the continental crust; Evolution of the hydrosphere and the origin of life.
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