Planetary Surface Processes Hardback: 13 (Cambridge Planetary Science, Series Number 13) - Hardcover

Melosh

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521514185 ISBN 13: 9780521514187

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

The first comprehensive advanced textbook on the processes that shape planetary surfaces. It employs a quantitative approach, placing terrestrial geologic processes in a broader planetary context. Aimed at advanced students, it is also an invaluable resource for researchers, professional planetary scientists and space-mission engineers.

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'... an essential volume for any student of terrestrial or more exotic geology and geomorphology, and it contains a lot of fascinating nuggets for the general reader.' Spaceflight

'Melosh is an intellectual giant ... [this book] will continue to reward the reader for decades to come. Each time I open this book, I learn something new or at least see an old idea presented in a way I had not thought of before ... The book is a remarkable resource, and I plan to incorporate it in my own teaching of Earth and planetary surface processes ...' Jon Pelletier, Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Biografía del autor

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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0521514185
• ISBN 13: 9780521514187
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 520