Earth's Oldest Rocks

<p>Section 1: Getting started<br>1. Early solar system materials, processes, and chronology<br>2. Origin of the Earth and the Late Heavy Bombardment<br>3. Early Earth atmosphere and oceans</p> <p>Section 2: Overviews of Early Earth processes<br>4. Modelling early Earth tectonics: The case for stagnant lid behaviour in Early Earth<br>5. The earliest subcontinental lithospheric mantle<br>6. Distribution and geochemistry of komatiites and basalts through the Archean<br>7. The formation of tonalites-trondjhemites-granodiorites and of the early continental crust <br>8. Early Archean asteroid impacts on Earth: Stratigraphic and isotopic age correlations and possible geodynamic consequences<br>9. Palaeoarchean (3.6-3.2Ga) mineral systems in the context of continental crust building and the role of mantle plumes<br>10. Origin of Paleoarchean sulfate deposits</p> <p>Section 3: The most ancient remnants<br>11. Earth’s Oldest Rocks and Minerals<br>12. The oldest terrestrial mineral record: Thirty years of research on Hadean zircon from Jack Hills, Western Australia<br>13. Evidence of Hadean to Paleoarchean crust in the Youanmi and Southwest terranes, and Eastern Goldfields Superterrane of the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia<br>14. Hadean to Paleoarchean rocks and zircons in China<br>15. The Acasta Gneiss Complex<br>16. The Nuvvuagittuq greenstone belt: A glimpse of Earth’s earliest crust<br>17. The 3.9-3.6 Ga Itsaq Gneiss Complex of Greenland: Quasi-uniformitarian geodynamics towards the end of Earth’s first billion years<br>18. The Narryer Terrane, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: review and recent developments</p> <p>Section 4: Well-preserved granitoid-greenstone terrains<br>19. Paleoarchean development of a continental nucleus: The East Pilbara Terrane of the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia<br>20. 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<br>21. Geochemistry of Paleoarchean granites of the East Pilbara Terrane, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia: implications for early Archean crustal growth<br>22. Palaeoarchaean mineral deposits of the Pilbara Craton: genesis, tectonic environment and comparisons with younger deposits<br>23. Early Archean crustal evolution in southern Africa - an updated record of the Ancient Gneiss Complex of Swaziland<br>24. Geology of the Barberton Greenstone Belt - A unique record of crustal development, surface processes, and early life 3.55 to 3.2 Ga<br>25. TTG plutons of the Barberton granitoid-greenstone terrain, southern Africa<br>26. Tectono-metamorphic controls on Archaean gold mineralisation in the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa: An example from the New Consort gold mine</p> <p>Section 5: Filling the gaps<br>27. Paleoarchean gneisses in the Minnesota River Valley and northern Michigan, USA<br>28. The Assean Lake Complex: Ancient crust at the northwestern margin of the Superior Craton, Manitoba, Canada<br>29. Oldest rocks of the Wyoming Craton<br>30. Early crustal evolution as recorded in the granitoids of the Singhbhum and western Dharwar cratons, India<br>31. Palaeoarchaean crustal evolution of the Bundelkhand Craton, north-central India<br>32. Paleoarchean rocks in the Fennoscandian Shield<br>33. Archean crustal evolution in the Ukrainian shield <br>34. The Palaeoarchaean record of the Zimbabwe Craton<br>35. Ancient Antarctica: The Archean of the East Antarctic Shield</p> <p>Section 6: Life<br>36. Implications of carbonate and chert isotope records for the early Earth<br>37. Archean cherts: formation processes and paleo-environments<br>38. The significance of carbonaceous matter to understanding life processes on early Earth<br>39. Eoarchean Life from the Isua supracrustal belt (Greenland)<br>40. Depositional setting of the fossiliferous, c. 3480 Ma Dresser Formation, Pilbara Craton: A review<br>41. Early Archean (pre-3.0 Ga) cellularly-preserved microfossils and microfossil-like structures from the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia - A review<br>42. Traces of early Life from the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa</p>