Jr Harry Y. McSween

Planetary Geoscience (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108689540
• Artikelnr.: 68422393

Autorenporträt

Harry Y. McSween is Chancellor's Professor Emeritus of Planetary Geoscience at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He holds degrees from The Citadel (B.S.), the University of Georgia (M.S.), and Harvard University (Ph.D.). His research focuses on meteorites and has resulted in the publications of hundreds of scientific papers on the subject. He has also authored three popular books on planetary science, as well as textbooks in geochemistry and cosmochemistry. He has served as co-investigator for many NASA spacecraft missions, including Mars Pathfinder, Mars Exploration Rovers, Mars Odyssey orbiter, and Dawn asteroid orbiter. McSween has been elected President of the Meteoritical Society and of the Geological Society of America and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the recipient of the Leonard Medal (Meteoritical Society), the J. Lawrence Smith Medal (US National Academy of Sciences), and the Whipple Award (American Geophysical Union), and is the namesake for asteroid 5223 McSween.

Inhaltsangabe

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.