Solid earth geophysics 697-719 Chemical Composition and Element Distribution in the Earth’s Crust

Taylor Stuart Ross, McLennan Scott M.

Table of contents :
Glossary……Page 1
Two Crusts on a Mobile Earth……Page 2
Sedimentary Rocks as Crustal Samples……Page 3
Heat Production and Heat Flow……Page 6
The Oceanic Crust……Page 7
The Post-Archean Crust……Page 9
The Lower Crust……Page 11
The Archean-Proterozoic Boundary……Page 13
The Archean Crust……Page 14
Composition of the Bulk Crust……Page 16
The Subcrustal Lithosphere……Page 17
Early Pre-3.9-Ga Crusts……Page 18
Origin and Evolution of the Continental Crust……Page 19
Relationship to Other Planetary Crusts……Page 20
References……Page 23