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Planetary Geoscience

Planetary Geoscience

Moersch, Jeffrey E.
Burr, Devon M.
McSween, Harry Y., Jr.

Hardcover

Astronomy & Space

ISBN10: 1107145384
ISBN13: 9781107145382
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jul 11 2019
Pages: 350
Weight: 2.70
Height: 0.70 Width: 8.80 Depth: 10.80
Language: English
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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