Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Planetary geomorphology methods
- Chapter 3 Planetary morphologic processes
- Chapter 4 Earth’s Moon
- Chapter 5 Mercury
- Chapter 6 Venus
- Chapter 7 Mars
- Chapter 8 The Jupiter system
- Chapter 9 The Saturn system
- Chapter 10 The Uranus and Neptune systems
- Chapter 11 Planetary geoscience future
- Appendices
- References
- Further Reading
- Index
Foreword
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Planetary geomorphology methods
- Chapter 3 Planetary morphologic processes
- Chapter 4 Earth’s Moon
- Chapter 5 Mercury
- Chapter 6 Venus
- Chapter 7 Mars
- Chapter 8 The Jupiter system
- Chapter 9 The Saturn system
- Chapter 10 The Uranus and Neptune systems
- Chapter 11 Planetary geoscience future
- Appendices
- References
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
Foreword
Ron Greeley’s Introduction to Planetary Geomorphology is the single most outstanding and complete compendium of the science of planetary geology that exists. It is a fully complete and up-to-date synopsis of the science of planetary geology, written in Greeley’s characteristically succinct and clear style. This is the ideal primer for an upper undergraduate course, and an excellent compendium for the interested amateur or professional astronomer. The figures within are all the “right” ones – the very best for illustrating fundamental concepts and “type examples” of terrestrial and planetary processes – compiled here in one place.
Ron Greeley passed away suddenly in the fall of 2011, just a month after submitting this complete book for publication. It will remain a tribute to his life’s work, encapsulating his passions both for research and for teaching.
Greeley was a scholar and a gentleman, and a pioneer in the methods of planetary geology. His Ph.D. research at the University of Missouri at Rolla included field work on the Mississippi Barrier Islands, where he studied modern living forms of organisms that he was researching in the fossil rock record. This work laid the foundation for his practical approach to deciphering the processes that have shaped the surfaces of other planets by studying their modern Earth analogues. In the laboratory and the field, Greeley would effectively visit other worlds and other times.
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- Introduction to Planetary Geomorphology , pp. xi - xiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013