Planetary geoscience

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Planetary geoscience

Harry Y. McSween, Jr. ... [et al.]

Cambridge University Press, 2019

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Includes end of chapter summaries and review questions

Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

For many years, planetary science has been taught as part of the astronomy curriculum, from a very physics-based perspective, and from the framework of a tour of the Solar System - body by body. Over the past decades, however, spacecraft exploration and related laboratory research on extraterrestrial materials have given us a new understanding of planets and how they are shaped by geological processes. Based on a course taught at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, this is the first textbook to focus on geologic processes, adopting a comparative approach that demonstrates the similarities and differences between planets, and the reasons for these. Profusely illustrated, and with a wealth of pedagogical features, this book provides an ideal capstone course for geoscience majors - bringing together aspects of mineralogy, petrology, geochemistry, volcanology, sedimentology, geomorphology, tectonics, geophysics and remote sensing.

目次

  • Preface
  • 1. Exploring the Solar System
  • 2. Toolkits for the planetary geoscientist: imaging and spectroscopy
  • 3. More toolkits for the planetary geoscientist: chronology, mapping, geophysics, and laboratory analysis
  • 4. Solar System raw materials
  • 5. Assembling planetesimals and planets
  • 6. Planetary heating and differential
  • 7. Unseen planetary interiors
  • 8. Planetary geodynamics
  • 9. Planetary structures and tectonics
  • 10. Planetary igneous activity
  • 11. Impact cratering as a geologic process
  • 12. Planetary atmospheres, oceans, and ices
  • 13. Planetary Aeolian processes and landforms
  • 14. Planetary fluvial and lacustrine landforms: products of liquid flow
  • 15. Physical and chemical changes: weathering, sedimentology, metamorphism, and mass wasting
  • 16. Astrobiology: a planetary perspective on life
  • 17. Integrated planetary geoscience: a case study (Mars)
  • Epilogue: geologic processes in other Solar Systems?
  • Glossary
  • Index.

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