"Earth as an Evolving Planetary System features new chapters on the core, biotic systems, and the supercontinent cycle and mantle plume events. Extensively revised, this edition contains expanded treatment of evolving Earth systems, crustal evolution, evolution of the mantle and mantle plumes, carbon cycle, oxygenation of the atmosphere, significance of sulfur isotope fractionation, and new information on mass extinctions and how catastrophic events over the last 4.6 billion years have transformed the atmosphere, oceans, and life on Earth."--Jacket.