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Geological Magazine; March 2006; v. 143; no. 2; p. 253; DOI: 10.1017/S0016756806282050
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CONDIE, K. C. 2005. Earth as an Evolving Planetary System.

xiv + 447 pp. Amsterdam: Elsevier. Price £34.99 (paperback). ISBN 0 12 088392 9.

S. A. Drury

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Kent Condie has built on his earlier Plate Tectonics and Crustal Evolution(1976), by linking the principal dynamic system of whole-Earth heat and matter convection and its surface manifestation in plate tectonics to those of the atmosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere. The fact that only two of its ten chapters lie outside the solid Earth makes it primarily a book for the geoscientist rather than Earth scientists in the broader sense. Intended for ‘advanced undergraduate and graduate students’ as a wide-ranging reference, Earth as an Evolving Planetary System assumes basic knowledge of the physical and life sciences. Its strength lies in its systematic clarity . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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