Research Catalog

Title

Planetary science : a lunar perspective / Stuart Ross Taylor.

Author

Taylor, Stuart Ross, 1925-

Publication

Houston, Tex. (3303 Nasa Rd. 1, Houston, 77058) : Universities Space Research Association, Lunar and Planetary Institute, c1982.

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Lunar and Planetary Institute

Description

xix, 481 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Subject

• Planets > Exploration
• Astronautics in astronomy
• Moon > Exploration
• Moon > exploration

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• THE EXPLORATION OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM: Early influences -- Lunar sampling -- The Moon and the Solar System -- GEOLOGY AND STRATIGRAPHY: The face of the moon -- Stratigraphy of the lunar surface -- Radiometric and stratigraphic lunar time scales -- Detailed lunar stratigraphy -- Mercury -- Mars -- Venus -- Gallilean and saturnian satellites -- METEORITE IMPACTS, CRATERS AND MULTI-RING BASINS: The great bombardment -- The volcanic/meteorite impact debate -- The mechanism of crater formation -- Simple bowl-shaped impact craters -- Large wall-terraced craters, central peaks and peak rings -- The multi-ring basins -- Depth of excavation of basins -- Basin diameter-morphology relationship -- Impact melts and melt sheets -- Secondary impact craters -- Dark-halo craters -- Smooth-rimmed craters and floor-fractured craters -- Isostatic compensation of craters -- Linne crater and transient phenomena -- Swirls -- Meteorite flux -- The cratering record and the lunar cataclysm -- Secondary cratering and the cayley problem -- PLANETARY SURFACES: The absence of bedrock -- The extreme upper surface -- The regolith -- Glasses -- Chemistry and petrology of the regolith -- Microcraters and micrometeorites -- Irradiation history of the lunar surface -- Physical effects of radiation -- Chemical and isotopic effects -- Exposure ages and erosion rates -- Solar and cosmic ray history -- The lunar atmosphere -- Rare gases and planetary atmospheres -- Organic geochemistry and exobiology --
• PLANETARY CRUSTS: The lunar highland crust -- Breccias -- Melt rocks -- Highland crustal components -- Volatile components in the highland crust -- The ancient meteorite component -- Pristine rocks in the lunar highlands -- The orbital chemical data -- The chemical composition of the highland crust -- Age and isotopic characteristics of the highland crust -- Evolution of the highland crust -- The crust of the earth -- Other planetary crusts -- BASALTIC VOLCANISM: Floods of basaltic lava -- Mare basalt rock types -- Chemistry of mare basalts -- Ages and isotopic systematics of the mare basalts -- Origin of the mare basalts -- Cooling and crystallization of the lavas -- The record elsewhere -- PLANETARY INTERIORS: The advantages of geophysics -- Radii, densities and moments of inertia -- Lunar center of mass/center of figure offset -- Gravity -- Seismology -- Internal structures -- Heat flow and internal temperatures -- Magnetic properties -- THE CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF THE PLANETS: The new solar system -- The Type 1 carbonaceous chondrites (Cl) -- The Earth -- The Moon -- The Planets -- Meteorite parent bodies and satellites -- THE ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF THE MOON AND PLANETS: Initial conditions in the solar nebula -- Primary accretion models and "condensation" in the nebula -- Variations among refractory, volatile, chalcophile and siderophile elements -- Early solar conditions -- Secondary accretion process -- Formation of the moon -- The formation of the earth -- THE SIGNIFICANCE OF LUNAR AND PLANETARY EXPLORATION: The lunar experience -- Future missions -- Man's responsibility in the universe.

ISBN

0942862007 :

LCCN

^^^82000193^

OCLC

• 8221858
• SCSB-10241065

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library