Table of contents for Processes on the early Earth / edited by Wolf Uwe Reimold, Roger L. Gibson.


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1. The record of impact processes on the early Earth: A review of the first 2.5 billion years....... 1
Christian Koeberl
2. Large-scale impacts and the evolution of the Earth's crust: The early years ................ 23
Richard A.F. Grieve, Mark J. Cintala, and Ann M. Therriault
3. Archean spherule layers in the Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa:
A discussion of problems related to the impact interpretation ............................ 33
Axel Hofmann, Wolf Uwe Reimold, and Christian Koeberl
4. Diagenetic alteration of impact spherules in the Neoarchean Monteville layer,
South Africa .......................... ...... ....... .. ....................... 57
Issaku Kohl, Bruce M. Simonson, and Melissa Berke
5. Relicts of Earth's earliest crust: U-Pb, Lu-Hf, and morphological characteristics
of>3.7 Ga detrital zircon of the western Canadian Shield............................... 75
R.P. Hartlaub, L.M. Heaman, A. Simonetti, and C.O. Bohm
6. Precise U-Pb Zircon ID-TIMS ages provide an alternative interpretation to early ion
microprobe ages and new insights into Archean crustal processes, northern Labrador ....... 91
Thomas E:'Krogh and Sandra L. Kamo
7. The 3.466 Ga "Kitty's Gap Chert," an Early Archean microbial ecosystem ................ 105
Frances Westall, Sjoukje T. de Vries, Wouter Nijman, Virgile Rouchon, Beate Orberger,
Victoria Pearson, Jon Watson, Alexander Verchovsky, lan Wright, Jean-No1e Rouzaud,
Daniele Marchesini, and Anne Severine
8. Microfacies and origin of some Archean cherts (Pilbara, Australia) ..................... 133
Beate Orberger, Virgile Rouchon, Frances Westall, Sjoukje T. de Vries, Daniele L. Pinti,
Christiane Wagner, Richard Wirth, and Ko Hashizume
9. Contrasting source components of clastic metasedimentary rocks in the lowermost
formations of the Barberton greenstone belt............... ...................... 157
Annika Dziggel, Gary Stevens, Marc Poujol, and Richard A. Armstrong
10. The significance of subduction-related accretionary complexes in early Earth processes..... 173
John W. Shervais
11. A reevaluation ofArchean intracratonic terrane boundaries on the Kaapvaal Craton,
South Africa: Collisional suture zones? .......... ............................... 193
Carl R. Anhaeusser
12. Syntectonic emplacement and deformation of the Heerenveen batholith:
Conjectures on the structural setting of the 3.1 Ga granite magmatism
in the Barberton granite-greenstone terrain, South Africa ............................ 211
Richard W. Belcher and Alexander F.M. Kisters
13. SHRIMP zircon age constraints on Mesoarchean crustal development in the
Vredefort dome, central Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa ............................... 233
Richard A. Armstrong, Cristiano Lana, Wolf Uwe Reimold, and Roger L. Gibson
14. Physical volcanology and compositions of the basaltic lavas in the Archean
Nzuse Group, White Mfolozi inlier, South Africa................................... 255
Allan H. Wilson and Claire E. Grant
15. The structural-metamorphic evolution of the northern margin of the Zimbabwe
Craton and the adjacent Zambezi belt in northeastern Zimbabwe ....................... 291
Paul H.G.M. Dirks and Hielke A. Jelsma
16. The Limpopo Belt: A result ofArchean to Proterozoic, Turkic-type orogenesis? ............ 315
J.M. Barton Jr., R. Klemd, and A. Zeh
17. Origin of hydrothermal fluids and gold mineralization associated with the
Ventersdorp Contact Reef, Witwatersrand Basin, South Africa:
Constraints from S, 0, and H isotopes .................................... ......... 333
B. Zhao, L.J. Robb, C. Harris and L.J. Jordaan
18. The nature of hydrocarbons and related fluids in the Witwatersrand Basin,
South Africa: Their role in metal redistribution.................................... 353
G.R. Drennan and L.J. Robb
19. Conditions of gold remobilization in the Ventersdorp Contact Reef,
Witwatersrand Basin, South Africa...........  .. .................................. 387
Rudy H. Boer and Wolf Uwe Reimold



Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Geology, Stratigraphic Archaean Congresses, Sediments (Geology) Congresses, Earth Crust Congresses, Cryptoexplosion structures Congresses, Life Origin Congresses