Impact Cratering Across the Solar System Comparative Planetology Series

Langue : Anglais

Coordonnateurs : Osinski Gordon R., Neish Catherine D.

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Impact Cratering Across the Solar System, Volume Three provides an up-to-date, accessible and comprehensive discussions on the impact landforms and processes that shape and drive the evolution of planets, moons and smaller bodies. This book is a necessary resource for sourcing reliable and thorough information on how impact cratering manifests throughout the solar system. The book covers pressing topics, such as how an impact event may be responsible for the major crustal dichotomy on Mars, how impact melting may have created the oldest known rocks on Earth, or how impact craters can be used to date planetary surfaces throughout the Solar System.

This new release places a singular emphasis on comparing impact cratering processes on all relevant solar system bodies, with an explicit objective of providing a systems-level understanding of this widespread phenomenon. This book is ideal for students, academics and researchers in the fields of planetary science, geology, and astronomy, as well as those who study planetary impacts such as geophysicists, seismologists and structural geologists.

1. Overview of the Impact Cratering Process
2. Crater morphology and morphometry
3. Impact ejecta deposits
4. Effects of impacts on target geology
5. Impactites - The products of impact
6. Impacts into atmospheres
7. Crater chronology
8. Role of impacts in the origin and evolution of life
9. Role of impacts in planetary evolution
10. Synthesis and Outlook

Dr. Gordon “Oz Osinski is a Professor and the NSERC/MDA/CSA/CEMI Industrial Research Chair in Earth and Space Exploration in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Western Ontario (Western), Canada. He holds a PhD from the University of New Brunswick (2004) and a BSc (Hons) from the University of St. Andrews (1999), Scotland, both in Geology. Dr. Osinski’s research interests focus is on understanding impact cratering as a planetary geological process, on the Earth, Moon and Mars. He has conducted fieldwork at dozens of impact craters on four continents over the past 20 years. He has made substantial contributions to understanding the impact cratering process, including shock melting and metamorphism, impact ejecta emplacement, complex crater formation, and impact-generated hydrothermal systems. Dr. Osinski has published over 185 papers in peer-reviewed journals and special papers and has given over 110 conference presentations. He has received numerous awards for this research, including the Nier Prize of the Meteoritical Society (2009), the Young Scientist Medal of the Mineralogical Association of Canada (2015), and the Florence Bucke Award from Western (2015). Most recently, he was awarded the prestigious W. W. Hutchison Medal of the Geological Association of Canada and was named a Faculty Scholar at Western, both in 2018. Dr. Osinski is also the lead for Impact Earth, a unique initiative that seels to engage researchers and the public alike in the study of meteorite impacts, fireballs and meteorites.
Dr. Catherine Neish is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Western Ontario. She is an expert in the use of remote sensing observations to study the geology of planetary surfaces, with a particular emphasis on impact cratering and volcanism. Dr. Neish obtained her graduate training in planetary sciences at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona (2008). She then held two postdoctor

Includes an introduction that places the book in the context of the larger Comparative Planetology series
Compares impact cratering processes on all relevant Solar System bodies, providing a systems-level understanding of this widespread phenomenon that shapes and drives the evolution of planets, moons and smaller bodies
Offers additional online content, including figures, animations, videos and interviews with contributing authors