Earth as an Evolving Planetary System

Earth as an Evolving Planetary System explores key topics and questions relating to the evolution of the Earths crust and mantle over the last four billion years. This Second Edition features exciting new information on Earth and planetary evolution and examines how all subsystems in our planet-crust, mantle, core, atmosphere, oceans and life-have worked together and changed over time. Kent Condie synthesizes data from the fields of oceanography, geophysics, planetology, and geochemistry to address Earths evolution.
Two new chapters on the Supercontinent Cycle and on Great Events in Earth history
New and updated sections on Earths thermal history, planetary volcanism, planetary crusts, the onset of plate tectonics, changing composition of the oceans and atmosphere, and paleoclimatic regimes