Impact Cratering Across the Solar System

Volume 3
Erscheinungsjahr 2029
ISBN: 978-0-323-89962-8
Verlag: Elsevier Science

Buch, Englisch, 350 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 234 mm

Impact Cratering Across the Solar System, Volume Three provides an up-to-date, accessible and comprehensive discussions on the impact landforms and processes that shape and drive the evolution of planets, moons and smaller bodies. This book is a necessary resource for sourcing reliable and thorough information on how impact cratering manifests throughout the solar system. The book covers pressing topics, such as how an impact event may be responsible for the major crustal dichotomy on Mars, how impact melting may have created the oldest known rocks on Earth, or how impact craters can be used to date planetary surfaces throughout the Solar System.

This new release places a singular emphasis on comparing impact cratering processes on all relevant solar system bodies, with an explicit objective of providing a systems-level understanding of this widespread phenomenon. This book is ideal for students, academics and researchers in the fields of planetary science, geology, and astronomy, as well as those who study planetary impacts such as geophysicists, seismologists and structural geologists.

Zielgruppe

<p>Primary: Graduates, academics, researchers in the fields of Planetary Science, Geology and Astronomy</p> <p>Secondary: Geophysicists, seismologists, structural geologists, remote sensing specialists</p>

Autoren/Hrsg.

Osinski, Gordon R

Neish, Catherine D.

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Weltraumforschung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Overview of the Impact Cratering Process
2. Crater morphology and morphometry
3. Impact ejecta deposits
4. Effects of impacts on target geology
5. Impactites - The products of impact
6. Impacts into atmospheres
7. Crater chronology
8. Role of impacts in the origin and evolution of life
9. Role of impacts in planetary evolution
10. Synthesis and Outlook

Über Autor(innen)

Neish, Catherine D.
Dr. Catherine Neish is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Western Ontario. She is an expert in the use of remote sensing observations to study the geology of planetary surfaces, with a particular emphasis on impact cratering and volcanism. Dr. Neish obtained her graduate training in planetary sciences at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona (2008). She then held two postdoctoral research positions at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, as well as an Assistant Professorship at the Florida Institute of Technology. To date, Dr. Neish has published over 55 papers in peer-reviewed journals, including 19 as first author, and wrote an invited book chapter on planetary radar for the Encyclopedia of the Solar System (3rd Edition). Dr. Neish is involved in NASA spacecraft missions as a Co-Investigator, including Cassini, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, and Dragonfly. She has been awarded the Ronald Greeley Early Career Award in Planetary Science from the American Geophysical Union, for significant contributions to planetary science from a young scientist (2014), an NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement (2015), and an Early Researcher Award from the Ontario Ministry of Research, Innovation, and Science (2017).