Earth as an Evolving Planetary System, Second Edition
Language: English | Publisher: Academic Press | ISBN: 0123852277 | 2011 | PDF | 578 pages | 24 mb

Kent Condie synthesizes data from the fields of oceanography, geophysics, planetology, and geochemistry to address Earth's evolution. This volume includes two new chapters on the Supercontinent Cycle and on Great Events in Earth history, as well as new and updated sections on Earth's thermal history, planetary volcanism, planetary crusts, the onset of plate tectonics, changing composition of the oceans and atmosphere, and paleoclimatic regimes.

Also in this Second Edition:

- The lower mantle and the role of the post-perovskite transition
- The role of water in the mantle
- New tomographic data tracking plume tails into the deep mantle
- Euxinia in Proterozoic oceans
- The Hadean
- A crustal age gap at 2.4-2.2 Ga
- Continental growth