Dynamic Mars : recent and current landscape evolution of the Red Planet / edited by Richard J. Soare, Susan J. Conway, Stephen M. Clifford.

• SECTION 1. Late Amazonian Epoch climate -- 1. Orbital (Climatic) Forcing and Its Imprint on the Global Landscape / Michael A. Mischna -- SECTION 2. Recent surface water at/near the mid-latitudes? -- 2. Unraveling the Mysteries of Recurring Slope Lineae / David E. Stillman -- 3. Martian Gullies and Their Connection With the Martian Climate / Susan J. Conway, Tanya N. Harrison and Stephen R. Lewis -- 4. Late Amazonian–Aged Channel and Island Systems Located East of Olympus Mons, Mars / Henrik I. Hargitai and Virginia C. Gulick -- SECTION 3. The Polar Regions -- 5. The Exotic Processes Driving Ephemeral Seasonal Surface Change on Mars / Frédéric Schmidt and Ganna Portyankina -- 6. CO2-Driven Geomorphological Processes: Landscape Evolution / Ganna Portyankina and K.-Michael Aye -- SECTION 4. Glacial and periglacial landscapes -- 7. Paleo-Periglacial and “Ice-Rich” Complexes in Utopia Planitia -- Richard J. Soare, Susan J. Conway, Colman J. Gallagher, Jean-Pierre Wiliams and Gordon R. Osinski -- 8. Slow Periglacial Mass Wasting (Solifluction) on Mars -- Andreas Johnsson, Susan J. Conway, Dennis Reiss, Ernst Hauber and Harald Hiesinger -- SETION 5. Volcanism -- 9. Volcanic Disruption of Recent Icy Terrain in the Argyre Basin, Mars / Jean-Pierre Williams, Richard J. Soare and James M. Dohm -- SECTION 6. Aeolian processes -- 10. Dust Devils: Stirring Up the Martian Surface / Dennis Reiss -- 11. Dark Dunes of Mars: An Orbit-To-Ground Multidisciplinary Perspective of Aeolian Science / Mark A. Bishop -- SECTION 7. Other surface-modification processes -- 12. Modification of the Martian Surface by Impact Cratering / Jean-Pierre Williams -- 13. Stone Pavements, Lag Deposits, and Contemporary Landscape Evolution / John C. Dixon -- 14. Karst Landforms as Markers of Recent Climate Change on Mars: An Example From a Late Amazonian Epoch Evaporate-Karst Within a Trough in Western Noctis Labyrinthus / Davide Baioni -- An Epilogue / James B. Garvin. 

• 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. 

Ämnesord

Mars (planet)  (sao)

Mars (Planet)  (LCSH)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Uabb Planeter (utom Jorden)

Klassifikation

523.43 (DDC)

Uabbc (kssb/8)