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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