Earth-Moon Relationships: Proceedings of the Conference Held in Padova, Italy at the Accademia Galileiana Di Scienze Lettere Ed Arti, November 8

by Cesare Barbieri

Book Overview

Sediments and sedimentary processes on the Moon and Earth are very different. In the absence of water, an atmosphere, the magnetosphere, and much less oxygen in its rocks, the Moon has neither clay minerals nor carbonates, and no Fe3+. Mechanical weathering by impacts is the principal process of sediment generation on the Moon; on Earth, chemical weathering predominates. Whereas processes of sediment transport are principally ballistic on the Moon,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9401038554
• ISBN13: 9789401038553
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 575 Pages
• Weight: 1.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"