Preface ....................................................... vii
Contributors to Volume 9 ....................................... xi
Editorial Advisory Board ..................................... xiii
Evolution of the Earth
9.01. Earth Formation and Evolution ............................. 1
D.J. Stevenson, California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, CA, USA
9.02. The Composition and Major Reservoirs of the Earth
Around the Time of the Moon-Forming Giant Impact ......... 13
A.N. Halliday, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX, UK
B.J. Wood, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW,
Australia
9.03. Formation of Earth's Core ................................ 51
D.C. Rubie, Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
F. Nimmo, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA,
USA
H.J. Melosh, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
9.04. Magma Oceans and Primordial Mantle Differentiation ....... 91
V. Solomatov, Washington University, St. Louis, MO,
USA
9.05. Water, the Solid Earth, and the Atmosphere: The
Genesis and Effects of a Wet Surface on a Mostly
Dry Planet .............................................. 121
Q. Williams, University of California, Santa Cruz,
CA, USA
9.06. Plate Tectonics through Time ............................ 145
N.H. Sleep, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
9.07. Mechanisms of Continental Crust Growth .................. 171
M. Stein, Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem,
Israel
Z. Ben-Avraham, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv,
Israel
9.08. Thermal Evolution of the Mantle ......................... 197
G.F. Davies, Australian National University,
Canberra, ACT, Australia
9.09. Thermal and Compositional Evolution of the Core ......... 217
F. Nimmo, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA,
USA
9.10. History of Earth Rotation ............................... 243
W.R. Peltier, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON,
Canada
9.11. Coevolution of Life and Earth ........................... 295
G.J. Retallack, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR,
USA
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