TY  - GEN
AU  - Condie,Kent C
TI  - Earth as an evolving planetary system
SN  - 9780128199145
U1  - 551.1 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - London
PB  - Academic Press
KW  - Earth
KW  - Planet
KW  - Plate Tectonics
KW  - Geodynamics
KW  - Historical Geology
KW  - Planets
KW  - Crust
N1  - Includes bibliography and index; Earth as a planetary system --  The Crust -- Tectonic settings -- The Mantle -- The Core -- Crustal and mantle evolution -- Earth cycles -- The atmosphere and hydrosphere -- The Biosphere -- Comparative planetary evolution
N2  - Earth as an Evolving Planetary System, Fourth Edition discusses key topics dealing with the evolution and interaction through time of Earth's crust, mantle, core, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere. It addresses the questions of why Earth is unique among planets of the solar system, and how the various subsystems in the planet have interacted over 4.6 billion years in the habitable planet that we live on. This new edition includes over 100 new pages of material, data, and images and is a key reference for students and researchers in Earth and planetary sciences. Earth as an Evolving Planetary System, Fourth Edition includes new material that has become available since the third edition, including new sections on the Mid-lithosphere discontinuity, geoneutrinos, mantle oxidation, continental emergence, Earth cycles (new chapter) and recycling processes, the evolution of Earth from a stagnant lid to a plate tectonic regime, the controversy over how the continents have grown, when plate tectonics began, and exoplanets
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