Planetary geoscience

by McSween, Jr, Harry Y.

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Title Statements

Full title :Planetary geoscience / Harry Y. McSween, Jr, Jeffrey E. Moersch, Devon M. Burr, William M. Dunne, Joshua P. Emery, Linda C. Kah, Molly C. McCanta.

Summary

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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2019.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:zxx
Publication Date:2019.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xvi, 334 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781316535769, 1316535762
oclc:on1108755959
LC Classification:QB820
Dewey Decimal:523.2/4

Subjects

Astronomie -- Recherche Astronomy -- Research Electronic books Exoplanètes -- Recherche Exoplanètes -- Télédétection Extrasolar planets -- Remote sensing Extrasolar planets -- Research Géologie -- Recherche Geology -- Research Planetary geographic information systems Planétologie -- Systèmes d'information …