Evolution of the Earth / 
volume editor, David Stevenson. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - Amsterdam ; Boston :  Elsevier,  2009. 
 - xi, 320 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 27 cm. 
 - Treatise on geophysics ; v. 9 .
<br/><br/> Contents: Earth formation and evolution / D. J. Stevenson - - The composition and major reservoirs of the earth around the time of the moon-forming giant impact / A. N. Halliday, B. J. Wood - - Formation of Earth's core / D. C. Rubie, F. Nimmo, H. J. Melosh - - Magma oceans and primordial mantle differentiation / V. Solomatov - - Water, the solid earth, and the atmosphere : the genesis and effects of a wet surface on a mostly dry planet / Q. William - - Plate tectonics through time / N. H. Sleep - - Mechanisms of continental crust growth  / M. Stein, Z. Ben-Avraham - - Thermal evolution of the mantle - - G. F.  Davies - - Thermal and compositional evolution of the core / F. Nimmo - - History of earth rotation / W. R. Peltier - - Coevolution of life and earth / G. J. Retallack. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780444534644 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Historical geology.<br/>Geophysics.<br/>Earth--Origin.