Planetary geoscience

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The ideal textbook resource to support a one-semester capstone course in planetary processes for geoscience undergraduates.

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Title Statements

Full title :Planetary geoscience / Harry Y. McSween, Jr., University of Tennessee, Knoxville [and six others].

Summary

The ideal textbook resource to support a one-semester capstone course in planetary processes for geoscience undergraduates.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2019

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2019

Notes

Includes end of chapter summaries and review questions.

The Physical Object

Description:xvi, 334 pages : : illustrations (chiefly color) ; : 29 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781107145382, 1107145384
oclc:on1075316150
LC Classification:QB820
Dewey Decimal:523.2/4

Preface: Geologic processes in the solar system -- Exploring the solar system -- Toolkits for the planetary geoscientist: Spectroscopy and imaging -- Moore toolkits for the planetary geoscientists: Chronology, mapping, geophysics, and laboratory analysis -- Solar system raw materials -- Assembling planetesimals and planets -- Planetary heating and differentiation -- Unseen planetary interiors -- Planetary geodynamics -- Planetary structures and tectonics -- Planetary igneous activity -- Impacty cratering as a geologic process -- Planetary atmosphere, oceans, and ices -- Planetary aeolian processes and landforms -- Planetary fluvial and lacustrine landforms: Products of liquid flow -- Physical and chemical changes: Weathering, sedimentology, metamorphism, and mass wasting -- Astrobiology: A planetary perspective on life -- Integrated planetary geoscience: A case study (Mars) -- Epilogue: Geologic processes in other solar systems?

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