New Understanding of the Earth from Space Research

Paul Lowman, 2002, 359pgs

Cambridge University Press, 978-0521890625

Table of Contents

Foreward by Neil Armstrong

Preface

Acknowledgements

1. Preview of the orbital perspective: the million-year day

2. Space geodesy

3. Satellite studies of geomagnetism

4. Remote sensing: the view from space

5. Impact cratering and terrestrial geology

6. Comparative planetology and the origin of continental crust

7. Geology and biology: the influence of life on terrestrial geology

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