Review Article

Planetary Sciences, Geodynamics, Impacts, Mass Extinctions, and Evolution: Developments and Interconnections

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Earth system components connecting the Earth’s deep interior, core, mantle, lithosphere, atmosphere, oceans, magnetosphere, and ionosphere with external processes like asteroid impacts, cosmic radiation, and solar winds (credits: International Scientific Continental Drilling Program (ICDP) website: http://www.icdp-online.org).