Mineral Systems, Earth Evolution, and Global Metallogeny

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-0-443-21684-8
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Technology

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 450 g

**2025 PROSE Award Finalist in Earth Science**
Mineral Systems, Earth Evolution, and Global Metallogeny provides insights into the critical parameters of Earth’s evolution, particularly in terms of thermal state, tectonics, and the atmosphere-hydrosphere-biosphere system that control the metallogeny of the planet. World-class to giant mineral systems are described and interpreted in terms of their relationship to critical periods of change in tectonic regimes within the supercontinent cycle and evolution of the mantle lithosphere. Specific times of formation of highly anomalous giant mineral systems, such as the so-called Boring Billion, are discussed together with specific tectonic environments, such as craton edges and thick lithosphere margins.

This book provides an overview on how the evolution of Earth has dictated the nature and distribution of its mineral resources that are the foundation of our modern industries and provides insights into critical parameters for conceptual exploration targeting. Mineral Systems, Earth Evolution, and Global Metallogeny provides a helpful resource for researchers, academicians, undergraduate and graduate students, and geologists engaged in the fields of economic geology, geologic exploration, mineral systems, and earth evolution in understanding the timing and distribution of the world’s major mineral deposits and their relation to critical parameters controlling earth’s evolution.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Santosh, M.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Petrologie, Mineralogie
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Geophysik
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Primärer Sektor Bergbau
• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Umwelttechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction
2. Representative Examples of Mineral System Models
3. Summary Mineral Systems Models for Relevant Systems
4. The Critical Role of Subduction
5. Mineral Systems, Tectonics, and the Supercontinent Cycle
6. The Anomalous Boring Billion
7. Paleoproterozoic Great Oxidation Event
8. Cambrian Explosion of Life
9. The Role of Craton and Thick Lithosphere Margins
10. Implications for Global Exploration
11. References

Über Autor(innen)

Santosh, M.
Professor M. Santosh is a Talent Professor at the CUGB, China, Honorary Professor at the University of Adelaide, Australia and Emeritus Professor at the Faculty of Science, Kochi University, Japan. His degrees are PhD (Cochin University of Science and Technology, India), D.Sc. (Osaka City University, Japan) and D.Sc. (University of Pretoria, South Africa). He is the Founding Editor of Gondwana Research as well as the founding Secretary General of the International Association for Gondwana Research. He is also the Editorial Advisor of Geoscience Frontiers and Geosystems and Geoenvironment. His research fields include global tectonics, metallogeny and life evolution in the Early Earth.

He is co-author of the book 'Continents and Supercontinents' (Oxford University Press, 2004). He has been recipient of Thomson Reuters 2012 Research Front Award, and Thomson Reuters/Clarivate High Cited Researcher Award during the past ten years. The collaboration and partnership of Professor David Groves and Santosh have led to a series of publications related to metallogeny in relation to global tectonics as well as the book Mineral Systems, Earth Evolution, and Global Metallogeny (Elsevier, 2023).