num_pages: 350
description: For many years planetary science has been taught as part of the astronomy curriculum from a very physics-based perspective and from the framework of a tour of the Solar System - body by body. Over the past decades however spacecraft exploration and related laboratory research on extraterrestrial materials have given us a new understanding of planets and how they are shaped by geological processes. Based on a course taught at the University of Tennessee Knoxville this is the first textbook to focus on geologic processes adopting a comparative approach that demonstrates the similarities and differences between planets and the reasons for these. Profusely illustrated and with a wealth of pedagogical features this book provides an ideal capstone course for geoscience majors - bringing together aspects of mineralogy petrology geochemistry volcanology sedimentology geomorphology tectonics geophysics and remote sensing.
language: English
title: Planetary Geoscience
publisher: Cambridge University Press