Kent Condie

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Kent Carl Condie (born November 28, 1936 in Salt Lake City ) is an American geologist and geochemist . He is Professor Emeritus of Geochemistry at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology .

Condie became interested in geology when he led white water rafting trips on the Colorado River in college . He studied at the University of Utah with a bachelor's degree in 1959 and a master's degree in 1960 and received his doctorate in geochemistry with Albert Engel at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography in San Diego in 1965 ( Petrology and geochemistry of the late Precambrian rocks of the northeastern Great Basin ). He turned down the opportunity to do a doctorate with Harold Urey on the origin of the moon. In 1964 he became an assistant professor and later an associate professor of geochemistry and petrology at Washington University . He has been Associate Professor since 1970 and Professor of Geochemistry at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology since 1977.

He deals with the geochemistry of trace elements and the development and origin of the continents. He is known for big data analysis of geochemical data to reconstruct the formation of the crust in the first two to three billion years of the earth's history. For example, he examined greenstone belts of the Archean in order to deduce the beginning of plate tectonics from the conditions in which they were formed, and he examined granites at the boundary between the Archean and Proterozoic . After investigating some unusual greenstone deposits in Canada in the 1990s, which came from oceanic plateau basalts from mantle plumes , he deals with the role of mantle plumes in the history of the earth, about which he published a monograph in 2001. As a professor, he also led summer field excursions (rafting) on ​​the rivers in the southwest of the USA for many years. He has been on field excursions around the world (Africa, Western Australia, Northern Europe, China, Siberia), but dealt particularly intensively with the geology of Colorado and New Mexico and South Africa (since 1973). Condie published several books on plate tectonics and their evolution, first in 1976 Plate tectonics and crustal evolution , which had four editions by 1997.

In 2018 he received the Penrose Medal . In 2007 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Pretoria. In 1987 he received a Distinguished Research Award from New Mexico Tech.

Fonts

  • Plate tectonics and crustal evolution, Pergamon Press 1976, 3rd edition 1989, 4th edition Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann 1997
  • Archean greenstone belts, Elsevier 1981
  • as editor: Proterozoic crustal evolution, Elsevier 1991
  • as editor: Archean crustal evolution, Elsevier 1994
  • with Robert E. Sloan: Origin and Evolution of Earth: Principles of Historical Geology, 1998
  • Editor with Ilmara Haapala: Precambrian granitoids: petrogenesis, geochemistry and metallogeny (Symposium Helsinki 1989), Elsevier 1991
  • Mantel plumes and their record in earth history, Cambridge UP 2001
  • Editor with Keith Benn, Jean-Claude Mareschal: Archean geodynamics and environment, American Geophysical Union, Washington DC 2006
  • Editor with Victoria Pease: When did plate tectonics begin on planet earth?, Geological Society of America Special Paper 440, 2008 (Penrose Conference in Lander, Wyoming, 2006)
    • therein by Condie, A. Kroner: When did plate tectonics begin? Evidence from the geological record, pp. 281-294.
  • Earth as an evolving planetary system, Academic Press / Elsevier 2006, 3rd edition 2015

Some essays:

  • Episodic age of greenstones: a key to mantle dynamics?, Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 22, 1995, pp. 2215-2218
  • Episodic continental growth and supercontinents: a mantle avalanche connection?, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 163, 1998, pp. 97-108
  • Episodic continental growth models: afterthoughts and extensions, Tectonophysics, Volume 322, 2000, pp. 153-162
  • Supercontinents and superplume events: Distinguishing signals in the geologic record, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, Volume 146, 2004, pp. 319-332
  • TTGs and adakites: Are they both slab melts?, Lithos, Volume 80, 2005, pp. 33-44, abstract
  • with C. O'Neill, RC Aster: Evidence and implications of a widespread magmatic shutdown for 250 My on earth, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 282, 2009, pp. 294-298

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
personal data
SURNAME Condie, Kent
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Condie, Kent Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American geologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Salt Lake City