Guest and Greeley

J.E. Guest and R. Greeley: Geology on the Moon (1977)

(glossary entry)

Description

Part of the now-defunct Wykeham Science Series of introductory texts for advanced high school and beginning college students, this is a particularly clear and well-written review of the forces that are thought to have molded the lunar surface features.
 
 

Additional Information

• Table of Contents
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. A geological approach to the Moon
  • 3. Circular basins
  • 4. The maria
  • 5. Impact cratering mechanics
  • 6. Large lunar craters
  • 7. Small craters
  • 8. Erosion, regolith and shock metamorphism
  • 9. The highlands (terrae)
  • 10. Stratigraphy
  • 11. Internal structure and geophysics
  • 12. Beyong the Moon
  • 13. Epilogue

• Contains lots of orbital lunar photographs, made by the Lunar Orbiters and during Apollo's scientific J-missions (Fairchild- and Itek-camera photographs).
• Also available in a German language translation by Wolf von Engelhardt.

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Bibliography

• Guest, John, and Ronald Greeley. 1977. Geology on the moon. The Wykeham science series. London: Wykeham Publications. x, 235 pp.; 21 cm
• Guest, John Edward, R. Greeley, and Wolf von Engelhardt. 1979. Geologie auf dem Mond. Stuttgart: Enke.

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