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The Early Earth
Accretion and Differentiation
James Badro (Edited by), J Badro (Author), Michael J. Walter (Edited by)
9781118860571, Wiley
Hardback, published 6 November 2015
198 pages
27.9 x 21.6 x 1.8 cm, 0.839 kg
"This book reviews our current understanding of the fundamental processes, which took a cloud of gas and dust in the solar nebula to the highly differentiated worl we know in a relatively short period of time (probably less than 100 million years, or about 2% of the age of the solar system)."
"The papers follow a standard scientific research style - clear, but terse and to the point with frequent use of acronyms, and an expectation of considerable subject matter knowledge from the reader."
William R. Green (05/09/2016)
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 ago as a consequence of planetesimal accretion, large impacts among planetary objects, and planetary-scale differentiation. The evolution of the Earth from a molten ball of metal and magma to the tectonically active, dynamic, habitable planet that we know today is unique among the terrestrial planets, and understanding the earliest processes that led to Earth’s current state is the essence of this volume. Important results have emerged from a wide range of disciplines including cosmochemistry, geochemistry, experimental petrology, experimental and theoretical mineral physics and geodynamics. The topics in this volume include: This volume will be a valuable resource for graduate students, academics, and researchers in the fields of geophysics, geochemistry, cosmochemistry, and planetary science.
Contributors Preface Acknowledgements Marc Chaussidon and Ming-Chang Liu 2. The Earth’s building blocks Frédéric Moynier and Bruce Fegley, Jr. 3. Earth and Terrestrial Planet Formation 4. Late Accretion and the Late Veneer 6. An experimental geochemistry perspective on Earth's core formation 7. Thermal state and evolution of the Earth core and deep mantle 8. Early Differentiation and its Long Term Consequences for Earth Evolution Richard W. Carlson, Maud Boyet, Jonathan O’Neil, Hanika Rizo and Richard J. Walker
1. Timing of nebula processes which shaped the precursors of the terrestrial planets
Seth A. Jacobson, Kevin J. Walsh
Alessandro Morbidelli and Bernard J. Wood
5. Early differentiation and core formation: processes and timescales
Francis Nimmo and Thorsten Kleine
Julien Siebert and Anat Shahar
Stéphane Labrosse, John W. Hernlund, and Kei Hirose
Index
Subject Areas: Earth sciences [RB]
