Earth as an Evolving Planetary System
- 1st Edition - December 17, 2004
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Author: Kent C. Condie
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 4 9 4 5 8 - 6
Earth as an Evolving Planetary System is based on Kent Condie’s classic text, Plate Tectonics and Crustal Evolution, which has been revamped and renamed in order to reflect a new… Read more
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Request a sales quoteEarth as an Evolving Planetary System is based on Kent Condie’s classic text, Plate Tectonics and Crustal Evolution, which has been revamped and renamed in order to reflect a new emphasis on the evolving interactions of the Earth’s systems. This revised volume synthesizes data from the fields of geophysics, oceanography, planetology, and geochemistry.
It features new chapters on the Earth’s core, biotic systems, and the supercontinent cycle and mantle plume events. It contains expanded treatment of the evolution of the Earth’s crust and mantle, carbon cycle, oxygenation of the atmosphere, and the significance of sulfur isotope fractionation. It also includes new information on mass extinctions and catastrophic events over the last four billion years that have transformed the atmosphere, oceans, and life on Earth. By integrating results from many different disciplines, this important text gives students a broader perspective of the Earth Sciences and shows how specialized data contribute to Earth and planetary history.
This text is designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; and scientists in other disciplines who want to look at the Earth with a broader perspective.
* 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
Advanced undergraduate and graduate students in Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; scientists in other disciplines who want to look at the Earth with a broader perspective
1. Earth Systems2. The Crust3. Tectonic Settings4. The Mantle5. The Core6. The Atmosphere and Oceans7. Living Systems8. Crustal and Mantle Evolution9. The Supercontinent Cycle and Mantle Plume Events10. Comparative Planetary Evolution
- Edition: 1
- Published: December 17, 2004
- No. of pages (eBook): 350
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN: 9780080494586
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Kent C. Condie
Kent Condie is emeritus professor of geochemistry at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM where he taught from 1970 to 2015. His textbook, Plate Tectonics and Crustal Evolution, was first published in 1976 and has gone through four editions. In addition, Condie has written seven other professional books the most recent of which, Earth as an Evolving Planetary System is now in the fourth edition. He is author or co-author of over 750 articles published scientific journals. He was awarded NMT’s Distinguished Research Award in 1987. In addition, he was elected the Vice President of the International Association for Gondwana Research in 2002 and in 2007 was bestowed an Honorary Doctorate Degree from the University of Pretoria in South Africa. He was awarded the Penrose Medal of the Geological Society of America in 2018.
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Professor of Geochemistry, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM, USARead Earth as an Evolving Planetary System on ScienceDirect