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Encyclopedia of Planetary Landforms

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This encyclopedia provides a snapshot of our current geological knowledge on solid-surface Solar System bodies. Each entry contains information about the features’ morphology, its interpretation, proposed formation models, distribution and occurrence, planetary or terrestrial analogs, and research history. The entries are fully referenced. All image captions include original image IDs. More than 600 named planetary feature types are discussed in the encyclopedia, covering a wide range of scales--from micrometers to global scale--and also include landform types (structural or topographic features), parts of landforms, terrain types or surface textures, surface patterns, and features identified at wavelengths extending from visible to radio waves (e.g., albedo, thermal infrared, and radar features). The book covers features formed by impact, aeolian, magmatic, volcanic, tectonic, fluvial, lacustrine, marine and coastal, mass movement, sedimentary, desiccation, liquefaction, periglacial, glacial, nival, sublimation, collapse, weathering, and selective erosion or other, including complex processes. Depending on the information and formation models available, the entries have different approaches. Some of them discuss their subject from the point of view of the inferred process or origin, others are morphology or description-based. As a default, entries focus on extraterrestrial landforms, while also mentioning their proposed terrestrial analogs. Most planetary landforms are not body-specific, but some have no known terrestrial counterparts. Named historic (obsolete) landform types are also included to provide reference for previous key research papers. To make it easier to find features with related origins, the encyclopedia contains entries that list landforms based on their formative processes. It also lists body-specific features on Mercury (5 feature types), Venus (40), the Earth (13), the Moon (15), Mars (87), Io (7), Europa (17), Callisto (7), Titan (9), Triton (2), mid-sized satellites (8), and small bodies (3). Also included are entries on the 51 planetary feature descriptor terms approved by IAU.            

Author Biography:

Henrik Hargitai PhD in Geology, senior lecturer at ELTE University (Budapest). Courses: Solar System Landforms, Planetology 101, Geology of Mars, Remote Sensing in Planetary Science. Related Publications: -Kira B. Shingareva, Jim Zimbelman, Manfred F. Buchroithner and Henrik I. Hargitai: The Realization of ICA Commission Projects on Planetary Cartography Cartographica, vol. 40, no. 4/Winter 2005 DOI 10.3138/3660-4078-55X1-3808 -Henrik I. Hargitai Planetary Maps: Visualization and Nomenclature. Cartographica, vol. 41, no 2 / Summer 2006 DOI 10.3138/9862-21JU-4021-72M3 -Hargitai Henrik 2008: Astronomical Facts and Fallacies from Pre-schoolers to Elderly People, Uj Pedagogiai Szemle 58. 6-7. 2008. - 122-148.p -Hargitai Henrik, Csaszar Geza, Berczi Szaniszlo, Kereszturi Akos 2008: Geological and Stratigraphical Units and the Nomenclature of Extraterrestrial Planetary Bodies / Foldon kivuli egitestek geologiai es retegtani tagolasa es nevezektana, Foldtani Kozlony 138/4 Akos Kereszturi PhD Earth sciences; M.S. geology, specialized in hydrogeology; M.S. geography, specialized in hydrology Courses: Climatic planetomorphology; Planetology I., II., Publications: -Mizser, A. Kereszturi: Climatic planetomorphology Lunar and Planetary Science XXXVIII (2007) #1523 -Climatic Geomorphology of Planetary Surfaces. Textbook for university students. 2008. Eotvos University.
Release date NZ
September 14th, 2015
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributors
  • Edited by Akos Kereszturi
  • Edited by Henrik Hargitai
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Illustrations
575 Illustrations, color; 1287 Illustrations, black and white; XXXVII, 2460 p. 1862 illus., 575 illus. in color. In 3 volumes, not available separately.
Pages
2460
Dimensions
178x254x146
ISBN-13
9781461431336
Product ID
19606545

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