Biographie de Kent-C Condie
KENT C. CONDIE is Professor of Geochemistry at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, where he has taught since 1970. Prior to that time he was at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. His textbook Plate Tectonics and Crustal Evolution, which is widely used in upper division and graduate courses in the Earth sciences, was first published in 1976 and has gone through four editions - the most recent in 1997. With coauthor Robert Sloan, Condie has also written a beginning textbook in geology entitled Origin and Evolution of Earth: Principles of Historical Geology, which was published in 1998. In addition, Condie has written a treatise, Archean Greenstone Belts (1981), and has edited two books, Proterozoic Crustal Evolution (1992) and Archean Crustal Evolution (1994). He is also author of the popular interactive CD-ROM Plate Tectonics and How the Earth Works. Condie's research, primarily dealing with the origin and evolution of continents and the early history of the Earth, has over the years been sponsored chiefly by the U.S. National Science Foundation. He is author or coauthor of more than 250 articles published in scientific journals.