Granite skyscrapers : how rock shaped earth and other worlds /: how rock shaped earth and other worlds. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: David S. Stevenson.
• Authors: Stevenson, David S, 1968-
• Contents: Intro; Dedication; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; 1: Our Planet's Torrid Heart; Introduction; From Dust to Planet and Back Again; The Early Crust; Igneous Rocks; Basalts and Their Kin; The Intermediate Rocks; A Tale of Three Metals; Carbon and Other Planets; Conclusions; References; Igneous Rocks; Planet Formation; Crustal Magmatic Processes on Earth; Venusian Lavas; Neutron Star Mergers and Nucleosynthesis; 2: The Formation of Granites & Plate Tectonics; Introduction; A Diverse Family of Related Rocks; The Formation of Granite - General Processes; Geological Reductionism The Geographical Locations of Granites and GranodioritesThe Origin of Continents; The Real Game of Thrones - The Rise of the Caledonian Mountains; Scotland's Munros; The Ups and Downs of Mountain Building; King Arthur and Cornwall's Rich Mineral Heritage; Granite as an Abode for Life; Granite, Bacteria and a Trip Abroad; Headstones and the "Edstone"; Conclusions; References; Igneous Petrology and Continental Crust; Formation of Continental Crust; The Caledonian and Appalachian Mountains; Toba; Volcanism in the Western States; Biological Succession and Granite as a Niche 3: The Evolution of Modern ContinentsIntroduction; How Subduction Built our Modern World; The Growth of North America - A 4-Billion-Year-long Story; The Plume-Shield Connection; The Proterozoic; The Grenville Orogeny; Pangaea; The Laramides; Africa; Asia; Indonesia - An Illustrated Continent Factory; Drips, Diapers and Slabs: Backdoor Restructuring of Continental Crust; The Izu-Bonin Arc; The Andean Puna; The Sierra Nevada, California; Hoggar - Central Sahara; Plumes Then and Now; Roots, Plumes and Diamonds; Diamonds Trace the Thickness of Continental Crust; The Chemical Formation of Diamonds Emplacement of Diamonds - KimberlitesOther Diamond-Bearing Rocks; Diamonds as a Tracer of Plate Tectonics; Oldoinyo Lengai - Not Diamond, But Soap Suds; Conclusions; References; Archaean and Hadean Tectonics; The Proterozoic; The Phanerozoic; The Laramides; Pan-African Orogeny and Subsequent History; Delamination, Plumes and Continental Evolution; Diamonds; 4: Plate Tectonics, Planetary Magnetism and Life; Introduction; Protection by an Invisible Cloak?; The Gas Giants, Jupiter and Saturn; The Twisted Tale of the Ice Giants; The Terrestrial Planets How Might Plate Tectonics Stir the Global Pot?Atmospheric Stripping; Jeans escape; Charge Exchange; Electronic Force Field Acceleration; Hydrodynamic Escape; Sequestration; Magnetism and Mars; Sunburn - The loss of Atmospheres Irrespective of Magnetism; A Young, Magnetic Moon?; Special Circumstances - Tidally Locked Planets; Conclusions; References; Core-Mantle and Heat Flow; The Terrestrial and Lunar Dynamos; Plate Tectonics and the Terrestrial Dynamo; Venus; Extrasolar Worlds; 5: Jotunheim -In the Realm of Giants; Introduction; The Birth of the Himalayas; The Rise of Tibet
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 559; Popular works; Geology; Granite; Earth sciences; SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / General; Science -- Earth Sciences -- Geology; Science -- Astronomy; Science -- Cosmology; Solar system: the Sun & planets; UFOs & extraterrestrial beings; Biogeography; Relativity physics; Astronomy; Planetology; Astrobiology; Popular astronomy & space; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319915036; 3319915037
• Related ISBNs: 9783319915029
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 6, 2018)
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