Dynamic Mars: Recent and Current Landscape Evolution of the Red Planet

ISBN-13: 9780128130186 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 474 str.

Richard J. Soare; Susan J. Conway; Stephen M. Clifford

Spis treści

Late Amazonian Epoch climate 1. Orbital (climatic) forcing and its imprint on the global landscape Recent surface water at/near the mid-latitudes? 2. Unraveling the mysteries of recurring slope lineae (RSL) 3. Gullies and their connection with the climate 4. Recent fluvial-channels, -landforms and fresh shallow-valleys in the Olympus Mons lava plains

The Polar Regions 5. Active geomorphological processes involving exotic agents 6. CO2-driven geomorphological processes

Glacial and periglacial landscapes 7. Paleo-periglacial and "ice-rich” complexes in Utopia Planitia 8. Bi-hemispheric (periglacial) mass wasting

Volcanism 9. Volcanic disruption of recent ice-deposits in the Argyre Basin

Aeolian processes 10. Dust devils: stirring up the surface 11. Dark Dunes of Mars: An orbit-to-ground multidisciplinary perspective of aeolian science

Other surface-modification processes 12. Modification of the surface by impact cratering 13. Stone pavements, lag deposits, and contemporary landscape-evolution 14. Karst landforms as markers of recent climate change: en example from the late Amazonian Epoch evaporite karst within a trough in western Noctis Labyrinthus