Archean and Proterozoic Earth: Infancy and Adolescence of the Planet Earth

It took nearly four billion years for the Earth to become a hospitable planet. Archean and Proterozoic Earth traces the geodynamic, biological, climatic and environmental upheavals that accompanied this evolution.

This book looks at the planet’s secular cooling and its implications for the dynamics of the Earth’s mantle and the development of plate tectonics, as well as the evolution of magma composition and the formation of a differentiated continental crust. It shows how variations in the...