Gebundenes Buch

35 Seasons of U.S. Antarctic Meteorites (1976-2010)

A Pictorial Guide to the Collection

Herausgeber: Righter, Kevin; Harvey, Ralph; McCoy, Timothy; Corrigan, Catherine

Beschreibung

"A copublication between the American Geophysical Union and John Wiley & Sons, Inc."

Autor

Kevin Righter is a planetary scientist in the Astromaterials Research Office at NASA. His research focuses on Petrology and Geochemistry, particularly emphasizing on igneous petrology that includes applications of experimental petrology and geochemical analysis to understand both terrestrial and planetary materials. He is the author of several prestigious journal articles in geoscience, some of which are published in PNAS, Nature Geoscience and Earth & Planetary Science Letters. Catherine (Cari) Corrigan is a Geologist in the Division of Meteorites of Mineral Sciences Department at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. Timothy McCoy is the Department Chair, Geologist and Curator-in-Charge of the Meteorite Collection in the Mineral Sciences division of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. His research focuses on using meteorites as a tool to understand the origin and evolution of their parent bodies, namely asteroids and Mars. He has published in many planetary journals including the JGR Planets, Science, and Meteoritics and Planetary Science. Ralph P. Harvey is an Associate Professor of Planetary Materials in the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Case Western Reserve University. His research focuses on Martian meteorites, micrometeorites and planetary remote sensing. He has published extensively in prestigious Earth Science journals including Nature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 284mm x 217mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 1106g
• ISBN-13: 9781118798324
• ISBN-10: 1118798325
• Artikelnr.: 40189750