Table of Contents

1. Earth as a Planetary System
2. The Crust
3. Tectonic Environments of Crust Formation
4. Orogens and Orogenic Crust
5. The Mantle
6. The Core
7. Crustal and Mantle Evolution
8. The Supercontinent Cycle
9. Atmosphere/Hydrosphere
10. The Biosphere
11. Comparative planetary evolution

About the Author

Kent Condie is emeritus professor of geochemistry at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM where he taught from 1970 to 2015. His textbook, Plate Tectonics and Crustal Evolution, was first published in 1976 and has gone through four editions. In addition, Condie has written seven other professional books the most recent of which, Earth as an Evolving Planetary System is now in the fourth edition. He is author or co-author of over 750 articles published scientific journals. He was awarded NMT’s Distinguished Research Award in 1987. In addition, he was elected the Vice President of the International Association for Gondwana Research in 2002 and in 2007 was bestowed an Honorary Doctorate Degree from the University of Pretoria in South Africa. He was awarded the Penrose Medal of the Geological Society of America in 2018.