Planetary Surface Processes (Cambridge Planetary Science, 13, Band 13) - Hardcover

Melosh, H. Jay

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521514185 ISBN 13: 9780521514187

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2011

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A comprehensive explanation of all geologic processes that shape planetary surfaces, for advanced students and researchers.

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H. Jay Melosh is Distinguished Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Science at Purdue University. His principal research interests are impact cratering, planetary tectonics and the physics of earthquakes and landslides. He is a science team member of NASA's Deep Impact mission that successfully cratered comet Tempel 1 on July 4, 2005. Professor Melosh was awarded the Barringer Medal of the Meteoritical Society in 1999, the Gilbert prize of the Geological Society of America in 2001, the Hess Medal of the American Geophysical Union in 2008, and was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2003. He has published over 170 technical papers, edited two books and is the author of Impact Cratering: A Geologic Process (1988, Oxford University Press). Asteroid #8216 was named 'Melosh' in his honor.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0521514185
• ISBN 13: 9780521514187
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 534
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