By Kent C. Condie
Earth as an Evolving Planetary System provides the foremost themes and questions in terms of the evolution of the Earth's crust and mantle during the last 4 billion years. It examines the position of plate tectonics within the geological prior through geological proof and proposed plate reconstruction.
Kent Condie synthesizes info from the fields of oceanography, geophysics, planetology, and geochemistry to envision the major issues and questions when it comes to the evolution of the Earth's crust and mantle. This quantity presents a considerable replace to Condie's validated textual content, Plate Tectonics and Crustal Evolution, 4E. It emphasizes the interactive nature of assorted parts of the Earth approach on time scales of tens to enormous quantities of thousands of years, and the way those interactions have affected the historical past of the ambience, oceans, and biosphere.
* New perception on interplay and evolution of Earth system
* Examines the position of castrophic occasions in Earth's history
* New part at the evolution of the mantle
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