Early Organic Evolution: Implications for Mineral and Energy Resources

Large hardcover, weight 1.62kg, xviii+556 pages, NOT ex-library. Clean with unmarked text. -- Contents: Introduction: Early Organic Evolution and Mineral and Energy Resources: A Farewell Address to IGCP Project 157; 1. Precambrian Weathering & Paleosols [Introduction; How to Find a Precambrian Paleosol; Experimental Procedures to Simulate Weathering Under Atmospheres Which May Have Characterized the Early Archean; Lower Proterozoic Hokkalampi Paleosol in North Karelia, Eastern Finland; Paleosol & Ore-Forming Processes in the Elliot Lake District of Canada; Mineralogy & Geochemistry of the Pre-1.65 Ga Paleosol Under Kombolgie Formation Sandstone of the Pine Creek Geosyncline, Northern Territory, Australia; Carbonaceous High-Alumina Shale in the Transvaal Supergroup: Evidence of Early Proterozoic Karstic Weathering in a Marine Environment; Significance of Precambrian Paleosols] 2. Organic Matter in Precambrian & Early Paleozoic Sediments [Mantle Carbon: Concentration, Mode of Occurrence & Isotopic Composition; Carbon Cycle & Carbon Isotope Record: Geochemical Impact of Life over 3.8 Ga of Earth History; Precambrian Petroleum: A Decade of Changing Perceptions; Paleontology & Biogeochemical Research: Powerful Synergy; Proterozoic Organic Carbon: Preservation & Isotopic Record; Assessment of the Precambrian/Cambrian Transition Events on the Basis of Carbon Isotope Records; Stratiform & Globular Organic Matter in the Lower Proterozoic Metasediments at Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada; Organic Carbon Isotopic Composition of Proterozoic Sedimentary Rocks from India; Organic Free Radicals in Precambrian and Paleozoic Rocks: Origin and Significance; On the Atypical Petroleum-Generating Characteristics of Alginite in the Cambrian Alum Shale; Distribution and Structure of Hydrocarbons and Heterocyclic Sulfur Compounds Released from Four Kerogens of Ordovician Age by Means of Flash Pyrolysis; Thermal Maturity of Early Paleozoic Sediments as Determined by the Optical Properties of Marine-Derived Organic Matter: A Review; Hydrocarbon Composition of the Late Proterozoic Oils of the Siberian Platform: Implications for the Depositional Environment of Source Rocks; Biomarkers and Other Hydrocarbons in Upper Sinian Stromatolitic Dolostones from Southwest China; Natural Gas in Sinian Reservoirs of the Weiyuan Area, Sichuan Province: The Oldest Gas in China; Biological Markers in Paleozoic Sedimentary Rocks and Crude Oils from the Michigan Basin: Reassessment of Sources & Thermal History of Organic Matter; Influence of Gloeocapsomorpha prisca on the Organic Geochemistry of Oils and Organic-Rich Rocks of Late Ordovician Age from Canada] 3. Antiquity and Metallogenic Potential of Bacterial Sulfate Reduction [Sulfur in the Earth's Mantle; Bacterial Sulfate Reduction: Current Status & Possible Origin; Biogeochemistry of Sulfur & Mechanisms of Sulfide-Sulfate Mineralization in Archean Oceans; Biological & Abiological Sulfate Reduction in Two Northern Australian Proterozoic Basins; Global Oxidation & Supercontinent in the Proterozoic: Evidence from Stable Isotopic Trends; Depositional & Diagenetic C-S-Fe Signatures & Potential of Shales to Generate Metal-Rich Fluids; Genetic Relationship Between Elementary, Organic & Pyritic Sulfur in Sediments] 4. Fossil Microbial Ecosystems of the Stromatolitic Type & Their Modern Analogs [History & Significance of Stromatolites; Proterozoic & Living Cyanobacteria; Lower Precambrian Stromatolite Associations of Karelia; Tussocky Microstructure, a Biological Event in Upper Proterozoic Stromatolites: Comparisons with Modern Freshwater Stromatolite Builders; On the Association of Ore Deposits with Stromatolites; Experimental Hypersaline Ponds as Model Environments for Stromatolite Formation; Palynostratigraphy in Phanerozoic & Precambrian Metamorphic Rocks] 5. General Topics [Mineral Deposits & Metallogeny: Indicators of Earth's Evolution; Chemical Evolution of Sedimentary & Magmatic Rocks in the Earth's Crust]; Subject Index.…