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Dynamic Mars
Recent and Current Landscape Evolution of the Red Planet
A state-of-the-art reference on the history and implications of the geology and geomorphology of Mars
Richard Soare (Edited by), Susan Conway (Edited by), Stephen M. Clifford (Edited by)
9780128130186
Paperback / softback, published 13 August 2018
474 pages
23.4 x 19 x 3 cm, 1.11 kg
Dynamic Mars: Recent and Current Landscape Evolution of the Red Planet presents the latest observations, interpretations, and explanations of geological change at the surface or near-surface of this terrestrial body. These changes raise questions about a decades-old paradigm, formed largely in the aftermath of very coarse Mariner-mission imagery in the 1960s, suggesting that much of the interesting geological activity on Mars occurred deep in its past, eons ago. The book includes discussions of (1) Mars’ ever-changing atmosphere and the impact of this on the planet’s surface and near-surface; (2) the possible involvement of water in relatively new, if not contemporary, gully-like flows and slope streaks (i.e. recurring slope lineae); and (3) the identification of a broad suite of agents and processes (i.e. glacial, periglacial, aeolian, meteorological, volcanic, and meteoric) that are actively revising surface and near-surface landscapes, landforms, and features on a local, regional, and hemispheric scale.Highly illustrated and punctuated by data from the most recent Mars missions, Dynamic Mars is a valuable resource for all levels of research in the geological history of Mars, as well as of the three other terrestrial planets.
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 plains The Polar Regions 5. Active geomorphological processes involving exotic agents 6. CO2-driven geomorphological processes Glacial and periglacial landscapes 7. Paleo-periglacial and “ice-rich? complexes in Utopia Planitia 8. Bi-hemispheric (periglacial) mass wasting Volcanism 9. Volcanic disruption of recent ice-deposits in the Argyre Basin Aeolian processes 10. Dust devils: stirring up the surface 11. Dark Dunes of Mars: An orbit-to-ground multidisciplinary perspective of aeolian science Other 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
Subject Areas: Space science [TTD], Geophysics [PHVG], Astronomy, space & time [PG]
