Earth as an evolving planetary system /

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Author / Creator:Condie, Kent C.
Imprint:Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier Academic Press, ©2005.
Description:1 online resource (xiv, 447 pages, [5] plates) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11155561
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Other uniform titles:Condie, Kent C. Plate tectonics and crustal evolution.
ISBN:9780080494586
0080494587
9780120883929
0120883929
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9781281010780
9786611010782
6611010785
Digital file characteristics:text file
Notes:Revised edition of: Plate tectonics and crustal evolution. 4th ed. 1997.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-441) and index.
English.
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Summary: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.
Other form:Print version: Condie, Kent C. Earth as an evolving planetary system. Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier Academic Press, ©2005 0120883929 9780120883929