Geomorphological Precesses on Terrestrial Planetary Surfaces
Abstract
The impact of photographic explorations of the moon, Mars, and Mercury on studies of terrestrial surface processes is studied, with attention given to volcanic features, eolian erosion, ground ice and permafrost, and sapping as a geomorphological process. Finally, the ongoing deformation of the earth's crust is considered with reference to seismic activity and micromorphology, seismic activity recorded by microstratigraphy, microchronology, and geodesy and recent deformation.
- Publication:
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Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Pub Date:
- 1980
- DOI:
- 10.1146/annurev.ea.08.050180.001311
- Bibcode:
- 1980AREPS...8..231S
- Keywords:
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- Geomorphology;
- Mars (Planet);
- Mercury (Planet);
- Moon;
- Planetary Surfaces;
- Terrestrial Planets;
- Earth Crust;
- Geochronology;
- Geodesy;
- Ice;
- Permafrost;
- Seismic Energy;
- Spaceborne Photography;
- Stratigraphy;
- Surface Reactions;
- Volcanoes