Research Catalog

Title

Early Precambrian processes / edited by M.P. Coward and A.C. Ries.

Publication

London : Geological Society, 1995.

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Additional Authors

• Coward, M. P.
• Ries, Alison C.
• Geological Society of London.

Description

viii, 295 pages : illustrations, maps, 1 portrait; 26 cm.

Summary

This volume contains a selection of 16 papers written by colleagues and students of the late Professor John Sutton FRS. John Sutton was one of the most eminent geologists of his time. He was interested in every aspect of the Earth Sciences, although his passion was for Precambrian rocks throughout the world, and particularly those of NW Scotland. The papers included in this volume reflect the wide interests of John Sutton and provide the latest ideas and information on the Early Precambrian.

Series Statement

Geological Society special publication ; no. 95

Uniform Title

Geological Society special publication ; no. 95.

Subjects

• Strata > Precambrian era
• Geology, Stratigraphic > Precambrian

Contents

• The onset of interaction between the hydrospere and oceanic crust, and the origin of the first continental lithosphere / M. J. De Wit and A. Hynes -- Crustal growth, surface processes and atmospheric evolution of the early Earth / K. A. Eriksson -- Archaean ecology: a review of evidence for the early development of bacterial biomes, and speculations on the development of a global-scale biosphere / E. G. Nisbet -- Tectonic evolution of greenstone belts / R. M. Shackleton -- Soft lithosphere during periods of Archaean crustal growth or crustal reworking / P. Choukroune, H. Bouhallier and N. T. Arndt -- Archaean deformation patterns in Zimbabwe: true indicators of Tibetan style crustal extension or not? / P. J. Treloar and T. G. Blenkinsop -- Zircon geochronology of Archaean felsic sequences in the Zimbabwe craton: a revision of greenstone stratigraphy and models for crustal growth / J. F. Wilson, R. W. Nesbitt and C. M. Fanning -- Paradigms for the Pilbara / A. Trendall --
• The generation and assembly of an Archaean supercontinent: evidence from the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia / J. S. Myers -- Lode-gold deposits of the Yilgarn Block: products of Late Archaean crustal-scale overpressured hydrothermal systems / D. I. Groves, J. R. Ridley, E. M. Bloen, M. Gebre-Mariam, S. G. Hagemann, J. M. A. Hronsky, J. T. Knight, N. J. McNaughton, J. Ojala, R. M. Vielreicher, T. C. McCuaig and P. W. Holyland -- Late Archaean structure and gold mineralisation in the Kadoma region of the Midlands greenstone belt, Zimbabwe / R. J. Herrington -- Early Proterozoic dykes in the North Atlantic and Baltic cratons: the mafic field setting and chemistry of distinctive dyke swarms / D. Bridgwater, F. Mengel, B. Fryer, P. Wagner and S. C. Hansen -- Palaeoproterozoic Laurentian-Baltica relationships: a view from the Lewisian / R. G. Park -- Deformation in the mid to lower continental crust: analogues from Proterozoic shear zones in NW Scotland / T. J. Wynn --
• Development of the Witwatersrand Basin, South Africa / M. P. Coward, R. M. Spencer and C. E. Spencer -- Asian analogues for Precambrian tectonics? / R. H. Graham.

ISBN

1897799365 :

LCCN

gb 95091848

OCLC

ocm34515785

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries