The Earth System and Evolution of Life

Chapter 1 Earth System
1-1 Earth System
1-2 Climate
1-3 Atmosphere
1-4 Hydrosphere
1-5 Plate tectonics
1-6 Plume tectonics
1-7 Grow tectonics in the core and magnetosphere



Chapter 2 Plate Tectonics
2-1 General concept
2-2 Plate Boundary Process
2-3 Consuming plate boundary process
2-4 Divergent plate boundary
2-5 Strike-slip boundary

Chapter 3 Igneous Petrology
3-1 Volcano and volcanism
3-2 Origin of magma
3-3 Experimental petrology and phase diagram
3-4 Volcanic province and tectonic settings
3-5 Magmatism through time
3-6 Magmatism in the other planets Venus-Mars, Moon and other planets



Chapter 4 Metamorphic petrology
4-1 Metamorphism and plate tectonics
4-2 Metamorphic isograds and subsolidus reactions
4-3 Metamorphic facies, facies series, and subduction zone geotherm
4-4 Geothermobarometries
4-5 Metamorphic fluids
4-6 M

etamorphism through time
4-7 Metamorphic rocks in extra-solar system

Chapter 5 Sedimentology
5-1 Modern sedimentation
5-2 Terminology and classification of sedimentary rocks
5-3 Sedimentation and surface environmental change
5-4 Orogeny and sedimentation
5-5 Sedimentation through time
5-6 Sedimentary rocks on Mars, Venus and other planets



Chapter 6 Structural Geology
6-1 Earthquake and deformation
6-2 Seismicity along plate boundary
6-3 Accretionary complex
6-4 Mountain building
6-5 Exhumation of deep-seated rocks to the Earth surface


Chapter 7 Orogeny
7-1 Classification of orogeny
7-2 Pacific-type orogeny
7-3 Collision-type orogeny
7-4 Arc-arc collision
7-5 Orogeny through time



Chapter 8 World Geology
8-1 Distribution of plate boundary on the Earth
8-2 Geology of Oceans
8-3 Geology of continents
8-4 Geology of North America
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-5 Geology of S. America and Middle America
8-6 Geology of Africa
8-7 Geology of Australia and adjacent regions
8-8 Geology of Europe Chapter 9 Earth History
9-1 Overview and Big 8 Events
9-2 Formation of the Earth at 4.6Ga
9-3 Second magma ocean by the Second Ice-meteorite bombardment at 4.0Ga
9-4 Plate tectonics started, life was born, formation of continental crust and birth of Ocean
9-5 Hadean Earth
9-6 Archean Earth
9-7 Proterozoic Earth
9-8 Ediacaran-Cambrian transition
9-9 Phanerozoic Earth
9-10 P/T Boundary
9-11 Birth of Human Being



Chapter 10 Earth system through time
10-1 Crust and continent through time
10-2 Ocean through time
10-3 Atmosphere through time
10-4 Lithosphere through time
10-5 Mantle through time
10-6 Geomagnetism through time
10-7 Earth system through time

Chapter 11 Evolution of Life
11-1 Phylogenic tree
11-2 Origin of Life
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-3 Life under extreme environments
11-4 Archean
11-5 Proterozoic
11-6 Phanerozoic
11-7 Snowball Earth and Cambrian Explosion
11-8 Surface environmental Change and evolution of Life
11-9 Life in the Universe

References
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