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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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Condie, Kent C.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Burlington : Elsevier, 2004.
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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 Evoluti.
Physical Description:1 online resource (469 pages)
ISBN:9780080494586
0080494587
0120883929
9780120883929
Language:English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Source of description: Print version record.