Earth-Moon Relationships: Proceedings of the Conference held in Padova, Italy at the Accademia Galileiana di Scienze Lettere ed Arti, November 8–10, 2000

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Cesare Barbieri, Francesca Rampazzi
Springer Science & Business Media, 29.06.2013 - 575 Seiten
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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ABHIJIT BASU and EMANUELA MOLINAROLISediments of
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CLAUDIO BELLINATI The Moon in the 14th Century Frescoes
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R BENN The Moon and the Origin of Life 6166
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Claire de Lune on the Italian Space
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GUY CONSOLMAGNO SJ Apollo Samples and the Geochemical
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MARK DEANTONIO Lunacy in Mentally Disturbed Children 129131
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JAMES W HEAD III Lunar and Planetary Perspectives on
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