The early Earth : accretion and differentiation / James Badro, Michael Walter, editors.

The early Earth : accretion and differentiation /

The Early Earth: Accretion and Differentiation provides a multidisciplinary overview of the state of the art in understanding the formation and primordial evolution of the Earth. The fundamental structure of the Earth as we know it today was inherited from the initial conditions 4.56 billion years a...

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Other Authors: Badro, James (Editor), Walter, Michael (Michael J.) (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Hoboken, NJ : American Geophysical Union ; Wiley, [2015]
Series:Geophysical monograph ; 212.
Subjects:
Earth (Planet) > Origin.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Timing of nebula processes which shaped the precursors of the terrestrial planets / Marc Chaussidon, Ming-Chang Liu
  • The Earth's building blocks / Frédéric Moynier, Bruce Fegley, Jr.
  • Earth and Terrestrial Planet Formation / Seth Jacobson, Kevin J. Walsh
  • Late accretion and the late veneer / Alessandro Morbidelli, Bernard J. Wood
  • Early differentiation and core formation: processes and timescales / Francis Nimmo, Thorsten Kleine
  • An experimental geochemistry perspective on Earth's core formation / Julien Siebert, Anat Shahar
  • Fractional melting and freezing in the deep mantle and implications for the formation of a basal magma ocean / Stéphane Labrosse, John W. Hernlund, Kei Hirose
  • Early Differentiation and its Long Term Consequences for Earth Evolution / Richard W. Carlson, Maud Boyet, Jonathan O'Neil, Hanika Rizo, Richard J. Walker.

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