The Early Earth: Accretion and Differentiation

by Michael J. Walter

The Early Earth: Accretion and Differentiation provides a multidisciplinary overview of the state of the art in understanding the formation and primordial evolution of the Earth. The fundamental structure of the Earth as we know it today was inherited from the initial conditions 4.56 billion years ago as a consequence of planetesimal accretion, large impacts among planetary objects, and planetary-scale differentiation. The evolution of the Earth from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1118860578
• ISBN13: 9781118860571
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: American Geophysical Union
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.5" x 11.0"