ISBN-13: 9781461431336 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 2460 str.
Encyclopedia of Planetary Landforms contains a description and interpretation of all known planetary landforms that have been discovered on the planetary bodies in our Solar System. The content is separated into entries for each planetary landform. All entries are based on literature reviews, using NASA/ESA/JAXA imagery and original general and thematic maps of the particular landform. Such a wide variety of landforms show how exotic these features could be from a terrestrial point of view, but at the same time emphasizes that the same processes will result in similar morphology, independent of its host planet. Illustrations show the generalized structure of each major landform type and is complete with a series of special maps published here for the first time. This organized classification of planetary landform types is not available in other books, and only partially covered in scattered papers.
The most important places (landforms, named and unnamed) will be found in the main section as well as description and interpretation. This has never been done before. If necessary, these landforms will have an accompanying large-scale map. This will make it serve as a basic reference book - not discussions of large metaconcepts but the stories of well-defined landform types and individual landforms, which is usually only found only in professional papers, one paper, one landform. So this knowledge is very much scattered around in the literature. Each landform will have a data section with height (peaks and low points), diameter, age, data. USGS maps only have diameter data.