Impact Cratering Across the Solar System

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.

• 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