Martin Atzmueller; Alvin Chin; Frederik Janssen; Immanuel Schweizer; Christoph Trattner Springer International Publishing AG (2016) Pehmeäkantinen kirja
Thomas J. Bruno; Ryan Deacon; Jeffrey A. Jansen; Neal Magdefrau; Erik Mueller; George F. Vander Voort; Dehua Yang A S M International (2020) Kovakantinen kirja
Trevor Johnston; Erik E Mueller; Irina a Chindea; Hannah Jane Byrne; Nathan Vest; Colin P Clarke; Anusree Garg; Ho Shatz RAND Corporation (2023) Pehmeäkantinen kirja
In this book the editors strive to cover all primary (i.e. non-applied) topics in Precambrian geology in a non-partisan way, by using a large team of international authors to present their datasets and highly divergent viewpoints. The chapters address: celestial origins of Earth and succeeding extraterrestrial impact events; generation of continental crust and the greenstone-granite debate; the interaction of mantle plumes and plate tectonics over Precambrian time; Precambrian volcanism, emphasising komatiite research; evolution and models for Earth's hydrosphere and atmosphere; evolution of life and its influence on Precambrian ocean chemistry and chemical sedimentation; sedimentation through Precambrian time; the application of sequence stratigraphy to the Precambrian rock record. Each topic is introduced and a non-partisan closing commentary provided at the end of each chapter. The final chapter blends the major geological events and rates at which important processes occurred into a synthesis, which postulates a number of "event clusters" in the Precambrian when significant changes occurred in many natural systems and geological environments. Also available in paperback, ISBN: 0-444-51509-7