From the Earth's Core to Outer Space

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Haapala, Ilmari (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, 137
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Climatology.; Physical geography.; Earth Sciences.; Earth System Sciences.; Physical Geography.

From the Earth's Core to Outer Space focuses on four themes: (1) Evolving Earth’s crust, (2) Changing Baltic Sea, (3) Climate Change, and (4) Planet Earth, third stone from Sun. The focus on these four topics provides both a state of the art review of earth science topics of particular importan...

Table of Contents:

• From the Contents: Evolving Earth's Crust
• Paleo-Mesoproterozoic assemblages of continents – paleomagnetic evidence for near equatorial supercontinents
• Seismic structure of Earth’s crust in Finland . Evolution of the bedrock of Finland: An overview
• Craton mantle formation and structure of Eastern Finland mantle: Evidence from kimberlite-derived mantle xenoliths, xenocrysts and diamonds
• Metallic mineral resources in Finland and Fennoscandian – a major European raw-materials source for the future.-  Isotopic microanalysis – in situ constraints on the origin and evolution of the Finnish Precambrian.