
Planetary Volcanism across the Solar System
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Description
Key Features
- Includes an introduction placing the book in the context of the larger Comparative Planetology series
- Compares volcanic processes and landforms on all relevant Solar System bodies, providing a systems-level understanding of this widespread phenomenon
- Offers a thorough examination of the major volcanic processes and landforms that shape and drive the evolution of planets, moons and smaller bodies
- Includes information from new mission data and discoveries in recent years
- Features over 100 color illustrations and charts to more clearly convey concepts
- Offers additional online content, including figures, animations, video, and other multimedia content such as interviews with contributing authors
Readership
Planetary Scientists, Geologists, Geophysicists, Geochemists, Volcanologists, Remote-sensing specialists. Also, third-level (i.e., college/university) educators delivering terrestrial and/or planetary volcanism materials to undergraduate students at first- and second-year levels
Table of Contents
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- About the editors
- Foreword
- 1: Volcanism in the Solar System
- Abstract
- 2: Effusive silicate volcanism: Observations and processes
- Abstract
- Overview
- Introduction to silicate effusive volcanic processes and landforms
- Planetary basalt compositions
- Morphology of silicate volcanic features
- Comparison with widespread effusive volcanism on Earth
- Volcanism on Vesta
- Volcanic outgassing from effusive eruptions
- Planetary calderas
- Extensional volcanic landscapes
- Volcano stability
- 3: Planetary volcanism: Craters, lava flows, fissures, and insights into their formation from observations of the April–August 2018 eruption of Kīlauea Volcano, Hawai‘i
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Caldera collapse
- Lava lakes
- Lava channels
- Fissure chronology
- Collapse pits
- Vents
- Flows in the ocean
- Synthesis
- 4: Explosive volcanism: Observations and processes
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- Overview
- Explosive volcanic processes on bodies lacking an atmosphere: Theory
- Explosive volcanism on bodies lacking an atmosphere: Observations
- Explosive volcanic processes in the presence of an atmosphere: Theory
- Explosive volcanism in an atmosphere: Observations
- Conclusion
- 5: Cryovolcanism
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Cryomagma production
- Cryomagma compositions and properties
- Cryomagma eruption mechanisms
- Manifestation of cryovolcanism in the outer Solar System
- Summary and future directions
- 6: The origin of magma on planetary bodies
- Abstract
- Introduction
- What is magma?
- The origin of magma: Changes in P, T, and X
- Factors controlling partial melt compositions
- Movement and accumulation of magma
- Magma diversification
- Summary
- 7: Ages of planetary surfaces
- Abstract
- Overview
- Absolute dating techniques
- Relative dating
- Impact craters as clocks
- Mercury
- Venus
- Moon
- Mars
- Galilean satellites: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto
- Summary
- 8: Composition of planetary crusts and planetary differentiation
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Nature of planetary crusts
- Planetary crustal composition models
- Crustal growth rates
- Scale and timing of planetary silicate differentiation
- Concluding remarks
- 9: Volcanism in the Solar System: Review, synthesis, and some outstanding questions
- Abstract
- Exploring planets
- Silicate volcanism
- Cryovolcanism
- Closing remarks
- Index
Product details
- No. of pages: 354
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2021
- Published: December 4, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128139875
- eBook ISBN: 9780128139882
About the Editors
Tracy Gregg
Affiliations and Expertise
Rosaly Lopes
Affiliations and Expertise
Sarah Fagents
Affiliations and Expertise
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