Earth as an Evolving Planetary System
by Kent C. Condie
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Author: Kent C. CondieEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2004-12-31
ISBN: 0120883929
Number of pages: 350
Publisher: Academic Press
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Book Review: Earth as an evolving planetary system
Summary: 5 Stars
This an exellent book for undergratuation level and also as an introductory post-graduation course. It presents an overview of the internal structure of the Earth, its evolution since Archean to Recent times and relations among plate tectonic, mantle plumes and magma genesis. However, I believe that some figures should be redrawn with better quality.
Summary of Earth as an Evolving Planetary System
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
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