
Dynamic Mars
Recent and Current Landscape Evolution of the Red Planet
Description
Key Features
- Utilizes observational and model-based data as well as geological context to frame the understanding of the dynamic surface and near-surface of Mars
- Presents a broad spectrum of highly regarded experts and themes to discuss and evaluate the geological history of late and current Mars
- Includes extensive and detailed imagery to clearly illustrate these themes, discussions, and evaluations
Readership
Table of Contents
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 plainsThe Polar Regions
5. Active geomorphological processes involving exotic agents
6. CO2-driven geomorphological processesGlacial and periglacial landscapes
7. Paleo-periglacial and “ice-rich” complexes in Utopia Planitia
8. Bi-hemispheric (periglacial) mass wastingVolcanism
9. Volcanic disruption of recent ice-deposits in the Argyre BasinAeolian processes
10. Dust devils: stirring up the surface
11. Dark Dunes of Mars: An orbit-to-ground multidisciplinary perspective of aeolian scienceOther 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
Product details
- No. of pages: 474
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2018
- Published: August 7, 2018
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128130186
- eBook ISBN: 9780128130193