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This book consolidates the latest research on the Hadean Eon - the first 500 million years of Earth history - which has permitted hypotheses of early Earth evolution to be tested, including geophysical models that include the possibility of plate tectonic-like behavior. These new observations challenge the longstanding Hadean paradigm – based on no observational evidence - of a desiccated, lifeless, continent-free wasteland in which surface petrogenesis was largely due to extraterrestrial impacts. The eon was termed “Hadean” to reflect such a hellish environment. That view began to be challenged in 2001 as results of geochemical analyses of greater than 4 billion year old zircons from Australia emerged. These data were consistent with the zircons forming in a world much more similar to today than long thought and interpreted to indicate that sediment cycling was occurring in the presence of liquid water. This new view leaves open the possibility that life could have emerged shortly after Earth accretion. The epistemic limitations under which the old paradigm persisted are closely examined. The book is principally designed as a monograph but has the potential to be used as a text for advanced graduate courses on early Earth evolution.
Earth sciences. --- Geodynamics. --- Earth (Planet) --- Mantle. --- Dynamic geology --- Tectonophysics --- Geophysics --- Geosciences --- Environmental sciences --- Physical sciences --- Internal structure --- Geochemistry. --- Structural geology. --- Mineralogy. --- Geophysics. --- Cosmology. --- Structural Geology. --- Geophysics/Geodesy. --- Astronomy --- Deism --- Metaphysics --- Geological physics --- Terrestrial physics --- Earth sciences --- Physics --- Physical geology --- Crystallography --- Minerals --- Geotectonics --- Structural geology --- Tectonics (Geology) --- Chemical composition of the earth --- Chemical geology --- Geological chemistry --- Geology, Chemical --- Chemistry
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Earth temperature --- Argon-argon dating --- GG Geochronology --- 550.93 --- Ar/Ar dating --- Dating, Argon-argon --- Radioactive dating --- Ground temperature --- Surface air temperature of the earth --- Surface temperature of the earth --- Temperature --- Geochronology. Geological dating. Absolute geological age or time determination --- 550.93 Geochronology. Geological dating. Absolute geological age or time determination
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Cosmology --- Geophysics --- Geochemistry --- Rocks. Minerals --- Geology. Earth sciences --- geochemie --- mineralogie --- geologie --- geofysica --- kosmologie
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This book consolidates the latest research on the Hadean Eon - the first 500 million years of Earth history - which has permitted hypotheses of early Earth evolution to be tested, including geophysical models that include the possibility of plate tectonic-like behavior. These new observations challenge the longstanding Hadean paradigm – based on no observational evidence - of a desiccated, lifeless, continent-free wasteland in which surface petrogenesis was largely due to extraterrestrial impacts. The eon was termed “Hadean” to reflect such a hellish environment. That view began to be challenged in 2001 as results of geochemical analyses of greater than 4 billion year old zircons from Australia emerged. These data were consistent with the zircons forming in a world much more similar to today than long thought and interpreted to indicate that sediment cycling was occurring in the presence of liquid water. This new view leaves open the possibility that life could have emerged shortly after Earth accretion. The epistemic limitations under which the old paradigm persisted are closely examined. The book is principally designed as a monograph but has the potential to be used as a text for advanced graduate courses on early Earth evolution.
Cosmology --- Geophysics --- Geochemistry --- Rocks. Minerals --- Geology. Earth sciences --- geochemie --- mineralogie --- geologie --- geofysica --- kosmologie
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Petrochronology is a rapidly emerging branch of Earth science that links time (ages or rates) with specific rock-forming processes and their physical conditions. It is founded in petrology and geochemistry, which define a petrogenetic context or delimit a specific process, to which chronometric data are then linked. This combination informs Earth's petrogenetic processes better than petrology or geochronology alone. This volume and the accompanying short courses address three broad categories of inquiry.Conceptual approaches chaptersinclude petrologic modeling of multi-component chemical and mineralogic systems, and development of methods that include diffusive alteration of mineral chemistry.Methods chaptersaddress four main analytical techniques, specifically EPMA, LA-ICP-MS, SIMS and TIMS.Mineral-specific chaptersexplore applications to a wide range of minerals, including zircon (metamorphic, igneous, and detrital/Hadean), baddeleyite, REE minerals (monazite, allanite, xenotime and apatite), titanite, rutile, garnet, and major igneous minerals (olivine, plagioclase and pyroxenes). These applications mainly focus on metamorphic, igneous, or tectonic processes, but additionally elucidate fundamental transdisciplinary progress in addressing mechanisms of crystal growth, the chemical consequences of mineral growth kinetics, and how chemical transport and deformation affect chemically complex mineral composites. Most chapters further recommend areas of future research.
Petrology. --- Petroleum --- Geological time. --- Age of rocks --- Geochronology --- Geochrony --- Rocks --- Time, Geological --- Chronology --- Historical geology --- Sequence stratigraphy --- Petroleum geology --- Geology --- Lithology --- Petrography --- Physical geology --- Geology. --- Age --- Pétrologie. --- Géologie pétrolière. --- Géochronologie.
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