
Dynamic Mars
Recent and Current Landscape Evolution of the Red Planet
- 1st Edition - August 13, 2018
- Editors: Richard Soare, Susan Conway, Stephen M. Clifford
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 3 0 1 8 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 3 0 1 9 - 3
Dynamic Mars: Recent and Current Landscape Evolution of the Red Planet presents the latest observations, interpretations, and explanations of geological change at the surfac… Read more
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Highly illustrated and punctuated by data from the most recent Mars missions, Dynamic Mars is a valuable resource for all levels of research in the geological history of Mars, as well as of the three other terrestrial planets.
- Utilizes observational and model-based data as well as geological context to frame the understanding of the dynamic surface and near-surface of Mars
- Presents a broad spectrum of highly regarded experts and themes to discuss and evaluate the geological history of late and current Mars
- Includes extensive and detailed imagery to clearly illustrate these themes, discussions, and evaluations
Late Amazonian Epoch climate
1. Orbital (climatic) forcing and its imprint on the global landscape
Recent surface water at/near the mid-latitudes?
2. Unraveling the mysteries of recurring slope lineae (RSL)
3. Gullies and their connection with the climate
4. Recent fluvial-channels, -landforms and fresh shallow-valleys in the Olympus Mons lava plains
The Polar Regions
5. Active geomorphological processes involving exotic agents
6. CO2-driven geomorphological processes
Glacial and periglacial landscapes
7. Paleo-periglacial and “ice-rich” complexes in Utopia Planitia
8. Bi-hemispheric (periglacial) mass wasting
Volcanism
9. Volcanic disruption of recent ice-deposits in the Argyre Basin
Aeolian processes
10. Dust devils: stirring up the surface
11. Dark Dunes of Mars: An orbit-to-ground multidisciplinary perspective of aeolian science
Other surface-modification processes
12. Modification of the surface by impact cratering
13. Stone pavements, lag deposits, and contemporary landscape-evolution
14. Karst landforms as markers of recent climate change: en example from the late Amazonian Epoch evaporite karst within a trough in western Noctis Labyrinthus
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 13, 2018
- Language: English
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Richard Soare
Richard Soare is a physical geographer specializing in periglacial (cold-climate, non-glacial landscapes). Through the last twenty years he has spent considerable time in the Canadian arctic (physically) and off-planet (intellectually), attempting to identify landscapes on Mars present or past possibly molded by the freeze-thaw cycling of water. His work spans the red planet geographically, ranging from the plains of Utopia Planitia in the northern hemisphere and the Moreux impact-crater at the Mars dichotomy through to the Argyre impact-crater in the southern hemisphere. Recently, he lead-edited “Mars Geological Enigmas: from the late Noachian Epoch to the present day” and a special issue of Icarus: “Current and Recent Landscape Evolution on Mars.”
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Susan Conway
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