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Condie, Kent C.
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Earth as an evolving planetary system /\ Kent C. Condie
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| Edition Statement
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Third edition
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xii, 418 pages :: illustrations ;; 28 cm
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| ISBN
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9780128036891
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: 0128036893
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: 9780128037096
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: 0128037091
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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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
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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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Crustal XenolithsEstimate of Crustal Composition; Continental Crust; Oceanic Crust; Complementary Compositions of Continental and Oceanic Crust; Crustal Provinces and Terranes; Crustal Province and Terrane Boundaries; The United Plates of America; Further Reading; Chapter 3: Tectonic Settings; Introduction; Ocean Ridges; Ocean Ridge Basalts; Ophiolites; General Features; Tectonic Setting and Emplacement; Ophiolite Production; Precambrian Ophiolites; Tectonic Settings Related to Mantle Plumes; Large Igneous Provinces; Oceanic Plateaus and Aseismic Ridges; Rifted Continental Margins
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Continental Flood BasaltsHotspot Volcanic Islands; Giant Mafic Dyke Swarms; Continental Rifts; General Features; Rock Assemblages; Rift Development and Evolution; Cratons and Passive Margins; Convergent Margins; Subduction-Related Rock Assemblages; Trenches; Accretionary Prisms; Forearc Basins; Arcs; Back-Arc Basins; Remnant Arcs; Retroarc Foreland Basins; Arc Processes; Flat Slab Subduction; Convergent Margin Metamorphism; Arc Magmas; Compositional Variation of Arc Magmas; Orogens; Three Types of Orogens; Collisional Orogens; Accretionary Orogens; Intracratonic Orogens
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Temperature-Magnitude ClassificationOrogenic Rock Assemblages; Tectonic Elements of Collisional Orogens; Sutures; Foreland and Hinterland Basins; The Himalayas; Uncertain Tectonic Settings; Anorogenic Granites; General Features; Associated Anorthosites; Tectonic Setting; Archean Greenstones and Granitoids; General Features; Greenstone Volcanics; Greenstone Sediments; Granitoids; Greenstone Tectonic Settings; Mineral and Energy Deposits; Introduction; Mineral Deposits; Ocean Ridges; Arc Systems; Orogens; Continental Rifts and LIPs; Cratons and Passive Margins; Archean Greenstones
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Plate tectonics
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Earth (Planet), Crust
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| Dewey Classification
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551.13
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| LC Classification
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QE511.C66 2016
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