The Young Earth
An introduction to Archaean geology
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Product details:
- Edition number 1987
- Publisher Springer Netherlands
- Date of Publication 23 July 1987
- Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book
- ISBN 9780045500499
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages402 pages
- Size 235x155 mm
- Weight 646 g
- Language English
- Illustrations XVII, 402 p. 134 illus. Illustrations, black & white 0
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Long description:
'What are we going to do with a parcel of old stones?' wrote the director of an African museum a century and a half ago, when one of my ancestors presented him with a splendid collection of fossils of mammal-like reptiles. Old stones, however intriguing, are difficult to interpret, dusty, and do not fit well in the neatly ordered contents of a house of learning. Archaean geology, which is the study of the Earth's history in the period from after 9 the end of planetary accretion (4.5-4.4 x 10 years ago) up to the beginning 9 of the Proterozoic (2.5 x 10 years ago) is much the same - a parcel of old stones seemingly impossible to understand. Yet these stones contain the history of our origins: they can tell us a story that is interesting not just to the geologist (for whom this book is primarily written) but instead addresses the human condition in general.
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I Background: Concepts and field evidence.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Geochronology and other uses of isotopic analysis.- 3 Archaean terrains: the available geological evidence.- II Reconstructing the Archaean Earth.- 4 The beginnings of life.- 5 Archaean continents.- 6 Archaean volcanism.- 7 Mineral deposits in Archaean rocks.- 8 Models of the early Earth.- Glossary of geological terms for non-geologists.- References.- Author Index.
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