Preface ....................................................... vii
Contributors ................................................... xi
Editorial Advisory Board ..................................... xiii
1 Earth Formation and Evolution ................................ 1
D.J. Stevenson, California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, CA, USA
2 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
3 Formation of Earth's Core ................................... 51
D.C. Rubie, Universitdt Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
F. Nimmo, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA,
USA
H.J. Melosh, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
4 Magma Oceans and Primordial Mantle Differentiation .......... 91
V. Solomatov, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA
5 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
6 Plate Tectonics through Time ............................... 145
N.H. Sleep, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
7 Mechanisms of Continental Crust Growth ..................... 171
M. Stein, Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel
Z. Ben-Avraham, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel
8 Thermal Evolution of the Mantle ............................ 197
G.F. Davies, Australian National University, Canberra,
ACT, Australia
9 Thermal and Compositional Evolution of the Core ............ 217
F. Nimmo, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
10 History of Earth Rotation .................................. 243
W.R. Peltier, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
11 Coevolution of Life and Earth .............................. 295
G.J. Retallack, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA
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