Editors:
- Presents a multi-disciplinary textbook on planetary geology
- Provides an up-to-date interdisciplinary geoscience-focused overview of solid Solar System bodies and their evolution
- Complemented by exercises and interactive material provided in a self-contained online repository
Part of the book series: Springer Praxis Books (PRAXIS)
Part of the book sub series: Astronomy and Planetary Sciences (ASTRONOMY)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Methods and Tools
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Front Matter
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Processes and Sources
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Front Matter
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Integration and Geological Syntheses
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Front Matter
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Frontiers
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book provides an up-to-date interdisciplinary geoscience-focused overview of solid solar system bodies and their evolution, based on the comparative description of processes acting on them.
Planetary research today is a strongly multidisciplinary endeavor with efforts coming from engineering and natural sciences. Key focal areas of study are the solid surfaces found in our Solar System. Some have a direct interaction with the interplanetary medium and others have dynamic atmospheres. In any of those cases, the geological records of those surfaces (and sub-surfaces) are key to understanding the Solar System as a whole: its evolution and the planetary perspective of our own planet.
This book has a modular structure and is divided into 4 sections comprising 15 chapters in total. Each section builds upon the previous one but is also self-standing. The sections are:
- Methods and tools
- Processes and Sources
- Integration and Geological Syntheses
- Frontiers
The latter covers the far-reaching broad topics of exobiology, early life, extreme environments and planetary resources, all areas where major advancements are expected in the forthcoming decades and both key to human exploration of the Solar System.
The target readership includes advanced undergraduate students in geoscience-related topics with no specific planetary science knowledge; undergraduates in other natural science domains (e.g. physics, astronomy, biology or chemistry); graduates in engineering and space systems design who want to complement their knowledge in planetary science.The authors’ backgrounds span a broad range of topics and disciplines: rooted in Earth geoscience, their expertise covers remote sensing and cartography, field mapping, impact cratering, volcanology and tectonics, sedimentology and stratigraphy exobiology and life in extreme environments, planetary resources and mining. Several generations of planetary scientists are cooperating to provide a modern view on a discipline developed from Earth during and through Space exploration.
Keywords
- Endogenic Processes in Silicate and Icy Crusts
- Exobiology
- Exogenic Processes
- Geologic and Geospatial Mapping
- Geological Evolution of Icy and Rocky-Icy Satellites
- Geological Evolution of Terrestrial Planets
- Geological Evolutions on Minor Bodies
- Geological Tools
- Impact Cratering
- Planetary Chronostratigraphy
- Planetary Interior and Atmospheres
- Remote Measurements in Planetary Exploration
- Remote Sensing
- Stratigraphy
Editors and Affiliations
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Jacobs University Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Angelo Pio Rossi
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National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan
Stephan van Gasselt
About the editors
Dust Devils.
Dr. Stephan van Gasselt received his doctoral degree on topics of Martian geomorphology at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany in 2007 and was appointed at National Chengchi University, Taiwan, where he teaches and researches on topics of Earth and planetary sciences with a focus on geology and geomorphology, He has been involved as Co-Investigator in a number of ESA missions. He is executive editor for the Elsevier journal GeoResJ.
The authors’ backgrounds span over a broad range of topics and disciplines: rooted in Earth geoscience, their expertise covers remote sensing and cartography, field mapping, impact cratering, volcanology and tectonics, sedimentology and stratigraphy exobiology and life in extreme environments, planetary resources and mining. Several generations of planetary scientists are
cooperating, to provide a modern view on a discipline developed from Earth during and through Space exploration.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Planetary Geology
Editors: Angelo Pio Rossi, Stephan van Gasselt
Series Title: Springer Praxis Books
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65179-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-65177-4Published: 14 December 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87966-6Published: 31 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-65179-8Published: 28 November 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: LXV, 433
Number of Illustrations: 54 b/w illustrations, 112 illustrations in colour
Topics: Planetology, Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics), Astrobiology, Geophysics and Environmental Physics