Plate tectonics and crustal evolution /

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Author / Creator:Condie, Kent C.
Edition:4th ed.
Imprint:Oxford ; Boston : Butterworth Heinemann, c1997.
Description:x, 282 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2733348
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Other uniform titles:Condie, Kent C. Plate tectonics & crustal evolution.
ISBN:0750633867 (pbk.)
Notes:Rev. ed. of: Plate tectonics & crustal evolution. 3rd ed. 1989.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-278)and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Plate tectonics
  • The Earth's crust
  • Tectonic settings
  • Crustal evolution
  • The core and mantel
  • Supercontinents
  • Atmosphere, oceans and climate
  • Life and mass extinctions
  • The origin of the solar system
  • Earth systems
  • Appendix - methodologies
  • Index