Evolution of the earth: treatise on geophysics/
David Stevenson
- New York: Elsevier, 2009.
- ixi, 320 p.
Earth formation and evolution / D.J. Stevenson -- The composition and major reservoirs of the earth around the time of the moon-forming giant impact / A.N. Halliday, B.J. Wood -- Formation of Earth's core / D.C. Rubie, F. Nimmo, H.J. Melosh -- Magma oceans and primordial mantle differentiation / V. Solomatov -- Water, the solid earth, and the atmosphere : the genesis and effects of a wet surface on a mostly dry planet / Q. Williams -- Plate tectonics through time / N.H. Sleep -- Mechanisms of continental crust growth / M. Stein, Z. Ben-Avraham -- Thermal evolution of the mantle / G.F. Davies -- Thermal and compositional evolution of the core / F. Nimmo -- History of earth rotation / W.R. Peltier -- Coevolution of life and earth / G.J. Retallack.
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Earth formation and evolution --Formation of Earth's core