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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Amsterdam ; Boston :
Elsevier Academic Press,
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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. |
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| Item Description: | Revised edition of: Plate tectonics and crustal evolution. 4th ed. 1997. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 447 pages, [5] plates) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-441) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780080494586 0080494587 1281010782 9781281010780 9786611010782 6611010785 |