TY - BOOK AU - kranendock, Martin J. TI - Earth`s oldest rocks SN - 9780444528100 U1 - 552 PY - 2007/// CY - New york PB - Elsevier KW - Precambrian Geologic Period KW - Geodynamics KW - Geology, Stratigraphic N1 - Overview and history of investigation of early earth rocks / Brian Windley -- The distribution of Paleoarchean crust / Kent Condie -- The formation of the earth and moon / Stuart Ross Taylor -- Early solar system materials, processes, and chronology / Alex W.R. Bevan -- Dynamics of the Hadean and Archean mantle / Geoffrey F. Davies -- The enigma of the terrestrial protocrust : evidence for its former existence and the importance of its complete disappearance / Balz S. Kamber -- The oldest terrestrial mineral record : a review of 4400 to 4000 Ma detrital zircons from Jack Hills, Western Australia / Aaron J. Cavosie, John W. Valley and Simon A. Wilde -- Evidence of pre-3100 Ma crust in the Youanmi and South West terranes, and Eastern Goldfields superterrane, of the Yilgarn Craton / Stephen Wyche -- The early Archean Acasta gneiss complex : geological, geochronological and isotopic studies and implications for early crustal evolution / Tsuyoshi Iizuka, Tsuyoshi Komiya and Shigenori Maruyama -- Ancient Antarctica : the Archean of the East Antarctic shield / Simon L. Harley and Nigel M. Kelly -- The Itsaq gneiss complex of southern West Greenland and the construction of Eoarchean crust at convergent plate boundaries / Allen P. Nutman ... [et al.]. The geology of the 3.8 Ga Nuvvuagittuq (Porpoise Cove) greenstone belt, northeastern Superior Province, Canada / Jonathan O'Neil ... [et al.]. Eoarchean rocks and zircons in the North China Craton / Dunyi Y. Liu ... [et al.]. The Narryer terrane, Western Australia : a review / Simon A. Wilde and Catherine Spaggiari -- Paleoarchean development of a continental nucleus : the East Pilbara terrane of the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia / Martin J. Van Kranendonk ... [et al.]. The oldest well-preserved felsic volcanic rocks on earth : geochemical clues to the early evolution of the Pilbara Supergroup and implications for the growth of a Paleoarchean protocontinent / R. Hugh Smithies, David C. Champion and Martin J. Van Kranendonk -- Geochemistry of Pa. Series Title: Developments in Precambrian geology, 15 ER -