Impact Cratering Across the Solar System: Volume 3

ISBN-13: 9780323899628 / Angielski

Gordon R. Osinski; Catherine D. Neish

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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