Earth as an evolving planetary system

by Condie, Kent C.

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Title Statements

Full title :Earth as an evolving planetary system / Kent C. Condie.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2016
Edition:Third edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier
Place of Publication:London, UK
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2016

The Physical Object

Description:xii, 418 pages : : illustrations ; : 28 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780128036891, 0128036893, 9780128037096, 0128037091
oclc:ocn940562197
LC Classification:QE511
Dewey Decimal:551.13

Front Cover; Earth as an Evolving Planetary System; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Earth as a Planetary System; Introduction; Structure of Earth; Plate Tectonics; Is the Earth Unique?; Interacting Earth Subsystems; Great Events in Earth History; Further Reading; Chapter 2: The Crust; Introduction; Seismic Crustal Structure; The Moho; Crustal Layers; Crustal Types; Oceanic Crust; Seismic Features; Ocean Ridges; Ocean Basins; Volcanic Islands; Trenches; Back-Arc Basins; Transitional Crust; Oceanic Plateaus; Arcs; Continental Rifts; Inland-Sea Basins; Continental Crust

Shields and PlatformsOrogens; Continent Size; Heat Flow and Heat Production; Heat-Flow Distribution; Heat Production and Heat Flow in the Continents; Age Dependence of Heat Flow; Exhumation and Cratonization; Introduction; Unraveling Pressure-Temperature-Time Histories; Some Typical P-T-t Paths; Cratonization; Processes in the Continental Crust; Rheology; Role of Fluids and Crustal Melts; Crustal Composition; Approaches; Seismic Wave Velocities; Seismic Reflections in the Continental Crust; Sampling of Precambrian Shields; Fine-grained Detrital Sediments; Exhumed Crustal Blocks

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