Table of Contents:
  • Geodynamics : the unanswered questions / A.L. Hales
  • A global geochemical model for the evolution of the mantle / D.L. Anderson
  • Temperature profiles in the earth / O.L. Anderson
  • The structure, density, and homogeneity of the earth's core / B.A. Bolt and R.A. Uhrhammer
  • Deep crustal structure : implications for continental evolution / L.D. Brown [and others]
  • Dynamics of the earth's core and the geodynamo / F.H. Busse
  • Radiogenic isotopes and crustal evolution D.J. DePaolo
  • The carbon-oxygen system at present and in the Precambrian / E. Dimroth
  • Strontium isotope composition of volcanic rocks : evidence for contamination of the Kirkpatrick basalt, Antarctica / G. Faure
  • Geosphere interactions and earth chemistry / W.S. Fyfe
  • Magnetometer arrays and geodynamics / D.I. Gough
  • Intraplate stress orientations from Alberta oil-wells / J.S. Bell and D.I. Gough
  • Planetary magnetism and the thermal evolution of planetary cores / D. Gubbins
  • Isotopic composition of the ocean-atmosphere system in the geological past / J. Hoefs
  • Mineral deposits as guides to supracrustal evolution / R.W. Hutchinson
  • Inferences from other bodies for the earth's composition and evolution / W.M. Kaula
  • Plate tectonic patterns and convection in the Phanerozoic / E.R. Kanasewich, M.E. Evans and J. Havskov
  • On the mechanism of the gravitational differentiation in the inner earth / V.P. Keondjan
  • The role of oxidation-reduction reactions in the earth's early history / O.L. Kuskov
  • A two-layer convective mantle with an internal boundary layer / R. St J. Lambert
  • Terrestrial heat flow history and temperature profiles / E.A. Lubimova and O. Parphenuk
  • Surface plates and thermal plumes : separate scales of the mantle convective circulation / W.R. Peltier
  • Initial state of the earth and its early evolution / V.S. Safronov
  • Electrical conduction in mantle materials / T.J. Shankland
  • A thermodynamic approach to equations of state and melting at mantle and core pressures / F.D. Stacey
  • Cooling of the earth
  • a constraint on paleotectonic hypotheses / F.D. Stacey
  • A remark on viscosity and convection in the mantle / V.P. Trubitsyn, P.P. Vasiljev and A.A. Karasev.