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Earth-Moon Relationships: Proceedings of the Conference Held in Padova, Italy at the Accademia Galileiana Di Scienze Lettere Ed Arti, November 8 Hardcover - 2001

by Cesare Barbieri (Editor); Francesca Rampazzi (Editor)

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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, movement by air, water and ice prevail on the Earth. The radical differences between Earth and Moon sediments make them useful end-members between which all sediments of all terrestrial planetary bodies are expected to lie. The purpose of this paper is (l) to compare and contrast major characteristics of the origin, transportation, deposition, and preservation of sediments, especially dust, in the Earth and the Moon, and (2) to suggest how sediments of other rocky planetary bodies, especially Mars, may fit in-between the sediments of the Earth and the Moon.

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The idea of this Conference is deeply rooted in the motivation of the series of events that have characterized the 400th anniversary of the foundation of the Galilean Academy of Sciences, Literature and Arts, namely the identification of Interdisciplinarity as the raison d'être of the Academy itself.

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  • Title Earth-Moon Relationships: Proceedings of the Conference Held in Padova, Italy at the Accademia Galileiana Di Scienze Lettere Ed Arti, November 8
  • Author Cesare Barbieri (Editor); Francesca Rampazzi (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 575
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Springer
  • Date September 30, 2001
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Maps
  • ISBN 9780792370895 / 0792370899
  • Weight 1.85 lbs (0.84 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.3 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 3.30 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Moon, Earth
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001038215
  • Dewey Decimal Code 523.3

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