Earth as an Evolving Planetary System
Editorial Reviews
Review
" The book is an excellent textbook for either an upper class undergraduate course or a graduate course in Earth history."
-Eos (Bulletin of the American Geophysical Union), 2005
Praise for Condie's Plate Tectonics 4E:
"By any standard, this book is a remarkable achievement. The author has produced an outstanding synthesis of more than three decades of research on plate tectonics, mantle evolution and the origin of continents."
--Geoscientist
Book Description
Earth as an Evolving Planetary System presents the key topics and questions relating to the evolution of the Earth's crust and mantle over the last four billion years. It examines the role of plate tectonics in the geological past via geological evidence and proposed plate reconstruction.
Kent Condie synthesizes data from the fields of oceanography, geophysics, planetology, and geochemistry to examine the key topics and questions relating to the evolution of the Earth's crust and mantle. This volume provides a substantial update to Condie's established text, Plate Tectonics and Crustal Evolution, 4E. It emphasizes the interactive nature of various components of the Earth system on time scales of tens to hundreds of millions of years, and how these interactions have affected the history of the atmosphere, oceans, and biosphere.
* New insight on interaction and evolution of Earth system
* Examines the role of castrophic events in Earth's history
* New section on the evolution of the mantle
Earth as an Evolving Planetary System
Earth as an Evolving Planetary System,Kent C. Condie,Academic Press,0120883929,Crust,Earth,Earth Sciences - General,Earth Sciences - Geology,Geophysics,Plate tectonics,Science,Science/Mathematics,Science / Environmental Science,Structure & properties of the Earth
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