The Precambrian Earth : tempos and events /

The Precambrian Earth : tempos and events /

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint:Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2004.
Description:xxiv, 941 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Developments in Precambrian geology ; 12
Subject:
Geology, Stratigraphic -- Precambrian.
Paleontology -- Precambrian.
Geology, Stratigraphic.
Paleontology.
Precambrian Geologic Period.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5155046
Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other authors / contributors:Eriksson, P. G.
ISBN:0444515062 (hd. bd.)
0444515097 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 771-921) and index.

MARC

LEADER 00000nam a2200000 a 4500
001 5155046
003 ICU
005 20050209141700.0
008 040707s2004 ne ab b 001 0 eng c
010 |a  2004301188 
020 |a 0444515062 (hd. bd.) 
020 |a 0444515097 (pbk.) 
040 |a OHX  |c OHX  |d ZCU  |d OCLCQ  |d GZM  |d DLC  |d OCoLC  |d OrLoB-B 
042 |a pcc 
050 0 0 |a QE653  |b .P73259 2004 
072 7 |a QE  |2 lcco 
082 0 0 |a 551.7/1  |2 22 
245 0 4 |a The Precambrian Earth :  |b tempos and events /  |c edited by P.G. Eriksson ... [et al.]. 
250 |a 1st ed. 
260 |a Amsterdam ;  |a Boston :  |b Elsevier,  |c 2004. 
300 |a xxiv, 941 p. :  |b ill. (some col.), maps ;  |c 25 cm. 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent  |0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/contentTypes/txt 
337 |a unmediated  |b n  |2 rdamedia  |0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/mediaTypes/n 
338 |a volume  |b nc  |2 rdacarrier  |0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/carriers/nc 
440 0 |a Developments in Precambrian geology ;  |v 12 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 771-921) and index. 
505 0 0 |t Preface /  |r W. U. Mueller, W. Altermann, O. Catuneanu, P. G. Eriksson and D. R. Nelson --  |g Ch. 1.  |t The Early Earth /  |r Edited by D. R. Nelson --  |t Introduction /  |r D. R. Nelson --  |t Earth's Formation and First Billion Years /  |r D. R. Nelson --  |t The Early Precambrian Stratigraphic Record of Large Extraterrestrial Impacts /  |r B. M. Simonson, G. R. Byerly and D. R. Lowe --  |t Strategies for Finding the Record of Early Precambrian Impact Events /  |r D. H. Abbott and J. T. Hagstrum --  |t Commentary /  |r D. R. Nelson --  |g Ch. 2.  |t Generation of Continental Crust /  |r Edited by D. R. Nelson and W. U. Mueller --  |t Introduction /  |r W. U. Mueller and D. R. Nelson --  |t Isua Enigmas: Illusive Tectonic, Sedimentary, Volcanic and Organic Features of the >3.7 Ga Isua Greenstone Belt, Southwest Greenland /  |r J. S. Myers --  |t Geochemical Diversity in Volcanic Rocks of the >3.7 Ga Isua Greenstone Belt, Southern West Greenland: Implications for Mantle Composition and Geodynamic Processes /  |r A. Polat, A. W. Hofmann and P. W. U. Appel --  |t Abitibi Greenstone Belt Plate Tectonics: The Diachronous History of Arc Development, Accretion and Collision /  |r R. Daigneault, W. U. Mueller and E. H. Chown --  |t Granite Formation and Emplacement as Indicators of Archaean Tectonic Processes /  |r T. E. Zegers --  |t Diapiric Processes in the Formation of Archaean Continental Crust, East Pilbara Granite-Greenstone Terrane, Australia /  |r A. H. Hickman and M. J. Van Kranendonk --  |t Early Archaean Crustal Collapse Structures and Sedimentary Basin Dynamics /  |r W. Nijman and S. T. de Vries --  |t Crustal Growth Rates /  |r N. T. Arndt --  |t Commentary /  |r D. R. Nelson and W. U. Mueller --  |g Ch. 3.  |t Tectonism and Mantle Plumes Through Time /  |r Edited by P.G. Eriksson and O. Catuneanu --  |t Introduction /  |r P. G. Eriksson and O. Catuneanu --  |t Precambrian Superplume Events /  |r K. C. Condie --  |t Large Igneous Province Record Through Time /  |r R. E. Ernst, K. L. Buchan and A. Prokoph --  |t Episodic Crustal Growth During Catastrophic Global-Scale Mantle Overturn Events /  |r D. R. Nelson --  |t An Unusual Palaeoproterozoic Magmatic Event, the Ultrapotassic Christopher Island Formation, Baker Lake Group, Nunavat, Canada: Archaean Mantle Metasomatism and Palaeoproterozoic Mantle /  |r B. L. Cousens, J. R. Chiarenzelli and L. B. Aspler --  |t A Commentary on Precambrian Plate Tectonics /  |r P. G. Eriksson and O. Catuneanu --  |t Precambrian Ophiolites /  |r J. R. Chiarenzelli and E. M. Moores --  |t The Limpopo Belt of Southern Africa: A Neoarchaean to Palaeoproterozoic Orogen /  |r A. J. Bumby and R. van der Merwe --  |t Geodynamic Crustal Evolution and Long-lived Supercontinents During the Palaeoproterozoic: Evidence from Granulite-Gneiss Belts, Collisional and Accretionary Orogens /  |r M. V. Mints and A. N. Konilov --  |t Formation of a Late Mesoproterozoic Supercontinent: The South Africa-East Antarctica Connection /  |r H. E. Frimmel --  |t A Mechanism for Explaining Rapid Continental Motion in the Late Neoproterozoic /  |r J. G. Meert and E. Tamrat --  |t Commentary /  |r P. G. Eriksson and O. Catuneanu --  |g Ch. 4.  |t Precambrian Volcanism: An Independent Variable Through Time /  |r Edited by W. U. Mueller --  |t Introduction /  |r W. U. Mueller and P. C. Thurston --  |t Terminology of Volcaniclastic and Volcanic Rocks /  |r W. U. Mueller and J. D. L. White --  |t Physical Volcanology of Komatiites /  |r W. U. Mueller --  |t Komatiite Geochemistry /  |r J. Dostal and W. U. Mueller --  |t Textures in Komatiites and Variolitic Basalts /  |r N. T. Arndt and A. D. Fowler --  |t Archaean and Proterozoic Greenstone Belts: Setting and Evolution /  |r P. C. Thurston, L. D. Ayres --  |t Explosive Subaqueous Volcanism /  |r J. D. L. White --  |t Archaean Calderas /  |r W. U. Mueller, J. Stix, J. D. L. White and G. J. Hudak --  |t Commentary /  |r W. U. Mueller --  |g Ch. 5.  |t Evolution of the Precambrian Atmosphere: Carbon Isotopic Evidence from the Australian Continent /  |r Edited by P.G. Eriksson and W. Altermann --  |t Introduction /  |r P. G. Eriksson and W. Altermann --  |t The Archaean Atmosphere, Hydrosphere and Biosphere /  |r H. Ohmoto --  |t The Evolution of the Precambrian Atmosphere: Carbon Isotopic Evidence from the Australian Continent /  |r J. F. Lindsay and M. D. Brasier --  |t Precambrian Iron-Formation /  |r A. F. Trendall and J. G. Blockley --  |t The Precambrian Sulphur Isotope Record of Evolving Atmospheric Oxygen /  |r T. W. Lyons, L. C. Kah and A. M. Gellatly --  |t Earth's Two Great Precambrian Glaciations: Aftermath of the "Snowball Earth" Hypothesis /  |r G. M. Young --  |t The Paradox of Proterozoic Glaciomarine Deposition, Open Seas and Strong Seasonality Near the Palaeo-Equator: Global Implications /  |r G. E. Williams --  |t Neoproterozoic Sedimentation Rates and Timing of Glaciations - A Southern African Perspective /  |r H. E. Frimmel --  |t Earth's Precambrian Rotation and the Evolving Lunar Orbit: Implications of Tidal Rhythmite Data for Palaeogeophysics /  |r G. E. Williams --  |t Ancient Climatic and Tectonic Settings Inferred from Palaeosols Developed on Igneous Rocks /  |r H. W. Nesbitt and G. M. Young --  |t Aggressive Archaean Weathering /  |r P. L. Corcoran and W. U. Mueller --  |t Commentary /  |r P. G. Eriksson and W. Altermann --  |g Ch. 6.  |t Evolution of Life and Precambrian Bio-Geology /  |r Edited by W. Altermann --  |t Introduction /  |r W. Altermann --  |t Earth's Earliest Biosphere: Status of the Hunt /  |r J. W. Schopf --  |t Evolving Life and Its Effect on Precambrian Sedimentation /  |r W. Altermann --  |t Microbial Origin of Precambrian Carbonates: Lessons from Modern Analogues /  |r J. Kazmierczak, S. Kempe and W. Altermann --  |t Precambrian Stromatolites: Problems in Definition, Classification, Morphology and Stratigraphy /  |r W. Altermann --  |t Precambrian Geology and Exobiology /  |r F. Westall --  |t Commentary /  |r W. Altermann --  |g Ch. 7.  |t Sedimentation Through Time /  |r Edited by P. G. Eriksson --  |t Introduction /  |r P. G. Eriksson, A. J. Bumby and M. Popa --  |t Sedimentary Structures: An Essential Key for Interpreting the Precambrian Rock Record /  |r J. A. Donaldson, L. B. Aspler and J. R. Chiarenzelli --  |t Archaean Sedimentary Sequences /  |r P. L. Corcoran and W. U. Mueller --  |t Discussion of Selected Techniques and Problems in the Field Mapping and Interpretation of Archaean Clastic Metasedimentary Rocks of the Superior Province, Canada /  |r J. R. Devaney --  |t Precambrian Tidalites: Recognition and Significance /  |r K. A. Eriksson and E. L. Simpson --  |t Sedimentary Dynamics of Precambrian Aeolianites /  |r E. L. Simpson, F. F. Alkmim, P. K. Bose, A. J. Bumby, K. A. Eriksson, P. G. Eriksson, M. A. Martins-Neto, L. T. Middleton and R. H. Rainbird --  |t Early Precambrian Epeiric Seas /  |r P. G. Eriksson, A. J. Bumby and P. Mostert --  |t Precambrian Rivers /  |r D. G. F. Long --  |t Microbial Mats in the Siliciclastic Rock Record: A Summary of Diagnostic Features /  |r J. Schieber --  |t Microbial Mat Features in Sandstones Illustrated /  |r S. Sarkar, S. Banerjee and P. G. Eriksson --  |t Sedimentation Rates /  |r P. G. Eriksson, P. K. Bose, S. Sarkar and S. Banerjee --  |t Commentary /  |r P. G. Eriksson and M. A. Martins-Neto --  |g Ch. 8.  |t Sequence Stratigraphy and the Precambrian /  |r Edited by O. Catuneanu --  |t Introduction /  |r A. F. Embry, O. Catuneanu and P. G. Eriksson --  |t Concepts of Sequence Stratigraphy /  |r O. Catuneanu, A. F. Embry and P. G. Eriksson --  |t Development and Sequences of the Athabasca Basin, Early Proterozoic, Saskatchewan and Alberta, Canada /  |r P. Ramaekers and O. Catuneanu --  |t Third-Order Sequence Stratigraphy in the Palaeoproterozoic Daspoort Formation (Pretoria Group, Transvaal Supergroup), Kaapvaal Craton /  |r P. G. Eriksson and O. Catuneanu --  |t Commentary /  |r O. Catuneanu and P. G. Eriksson --  |g Ch. 9.  |t Towards a Synthesis /  |r Edited by P. G. Eriksson, O. Catuneanu, D. R. Nelson, W. U. Mueller and W. Altermann. 
650 0 |a Geology, Stratigraphic  |y Precambrian.  |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054110 
650 0 |a Paleontology  |y Precambrian.  |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85097143 
650 7 |a Geology, Stratigraphic.  |2 fast  |0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst00940727 
650 7 |a Paleontology.  |2 fast  |0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01051513 
650 7 |a Precambrian Geologic Period.  |2 fast  |0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01354070 
648 7 |a From 570 million to 5 billion years ago  |2 fast 
700 1 |a Eriksson, P. G.  |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr2004011982  |1 http://viaf.org/viaf/4879525 
901 |a ToCBNA 
903 |a HeVa 
035 |a (OCoLC)54512572 
929 |a cat 
999 f f |i bbdef865-df8c-55b3-9248-34f922b5a0eb  |s ea1c172f-fe00-57d4-9201-6d55ee85592e 
928 |t Library of Congress classification  |a QE653 .P74 2004  |l JCL  |c JCL-Sci  |i 6485023 
927 |t Library of Congress classification  |a QE653 .P74 2004  |l JCL  |c JCL-Sci  |e GDON  |e CRERAR  |b 65527542  |i 7689921 
The Gaylord Donnelley Book Fund endowed in his memory by R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company bookplate
The John Crerar Library bookplate

Similar Items