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ROLLINSON, H. 2007. Early Earth Systems. A Geochemical Approach.

viii + 285 pp. Oxford, Malden, Carlton: Blackwell Publishing. Price £34.99 (paperback). ISBN 9781 4051 2255 9.

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Much like the furthest reaches of space or the darkest depths of oceans, the early history of the Earth is largely undiscovered territory. Hugh Rollinson sets out in his book Early Earth Systems: A Geochemical Approach to summarize what we know (and don’t know) about this enigmatic portion of our planet’s evolution. He does an excellent job of it. His approach, stated in the first chapter, is not just to examine the Earth’s various parts (core, mantle, crust, oceans, atmosphere, biosphere), but to examine how these parts have interacted over geologic time, particularly in the first two billion years of the Earth’s existence. Did life stabilize the liquid water oceans? Did these liquid water oceans instigate the formation of the continents through subduction of hydrated oceanic crust? . . . [Full Text of this Article]